My holiday weekend continues well. I had a long bike ride with Rob Solomon around the Virginia Tech campus and we saw many flowers (speedwells, many clovers, oxeye daisies, crown vetch) and saw and heard a number of birds (robins, blue jays, catbirds, pee wees, cardinals, song sparrows, chickadees, red winged blackbirds, bluebirds, mockingbirds).
Later, I played golf (my new plan to protect my knee is to do only two major things a day) and though my score wasn’t exceptional—mainly due to my many three putts—the effects of my lesson with Jimmy were evident: I hit the ball rather well..
I ate a small bean and a dish of lettuce and spinach as part of my dinner last night, and this morning I ate some tart cherries from the orchard and cleared around the solar fence with the electric trimmer. I also emptied the compost bucket and filled in the hole where one of the trees died. Now I can drive right over it with the lawn tractor.
The heat in the house is becoming a problem. It was 63 outside this morning at 7 but 73 inside, which is a little too hot for me. With the doors and several of the windows opened, the temperature remained tolerable but hot spells will be rough. Fortunately, I can go to my semi-air conditioned office and work there in the afternoon.