Daily Notes- August 29

 Bacon.  Lettuce. Tomato.  That about sums it up!

Humidity here in Maine is keeping me indoors.  I go out for a short periods of time to pick ripe tomatoes and give water if necessary.  Nothing to strenuous.  Mosquitos still attacking my ankles.

Tree Guys here early this morning before 7am.  The Heat.  They need to start early so they can be finished early.  They are chipping branches G has cut and piled up.  Then they will use the big lawn mower type machine to cut the heavy brush, weeds, grass and small saplings of junk trees. Later they will remove any White Pine they find on the property.  A useless tree.  I think, when managed and pruned, in the Olden Days, the White Pine was used for masts on the big ships that sailed out of Maine harbors.  Later for power poles.  Now they block the Sun. And are not cut and not used for anything.  Pine is not a good burning wood for heating homes.  Resin.

In the far back of our property, the Pines have created a dense BLACK wall.  No light.  We look out back and see nothing but BLACK.  I have gotten so--I don't like to even sit out back and look at the blackness.

We are hoping the removal of most of the White Pines will "open" the woods in the back.  Make it look less forbidding.  Less Black.

Riley is suggesting I feed him his lunch a bit early.  He did eat breakfast at 5:30.