Kyle has been after me to teach him how to use a chainsaw (he feels this would be a good skill to have for his landscaping business). This afternoon he received his first lesson and for homework we felled an oak tree that has been depriving Jeanine’s tomato plants of adequate sun. We had to exercise great care because the tree was naturally poised to fall directly onto the raised bed garden containing the tomato plants. Using a carefully cut hinge we dropped that tree within millimeters of our target. You would think that today’s photo , therefore, might show Kyle in the act of sawing on a tree but I was more concerned with carefully monitoring his technique rather than capturing it. Instead we have a bunch of bulbs from the Verrill farm stand where I made a brief visit to pick up some fruit and bread.