What a summer. Twenty degrees at noon on September 3. We didn’t put the AC in this year. We haven’t had much rain in the last month, so everything is really dry. A surprise, but in reality, August has been relatively cool and dry.

The big news is the retaining wall at the back of #14 is started. Should be done in a little over two weeks.

My back and neck have gone out for two different reasons, so I have done nothing for the past two weeks. Ken is learning how to water. And he is doing very good at it.

It has been a year for sow bugs and cutworms. Never seen so many, ever.

Picked the first of the hops yesterday. They are full of aphids.

Quiet day today. Richard visited yesterday and everyone else went to Andrew’s wedding. A lone cicada is singing in the next yard.