The morning's chores included a trip into the community garden. Fortunately not for the entire day as Syche's clan has increased by one and she had grandparently responsibilities to attend to. I got home and headed over the road to discover that they had just mucked out the stable and had two barrow loads of horsey straw to get rid of. So they came home and were tucked around the rhubarb plants, and the neat poo went onto the last of the bed i have been filling up.

I have driven in a star picket to support one of the apple trees that had fallen over. As the soil is moist at present it was a simple job to ease it upright once more without damaging too many roots, and to tie it into place. Now if the stake doesn't fall over, the tree has a good chance of growing upright once more. I will prune off some of the side branches while it is dormant and hollow out its middle, then weight the branches down so it doesn't get too tall. It is on dwarfing rootstock which should help.

Then I swapped around the head on the trimmer preparatory for tomorrow's working bee (assuming it goes ahead), but did not get any more trimming done here as it decided to rain. I did manage to cut a bit more firewood up and the fire is lit once more as it has been a day of cool winds, and only broken sun. Since it will be heading down to one degree tonight I will be grateful to come home to a warm house when I have done the bank tonight.

Tomorrow I think I will do some trimming at my place before heading into the working bee as I still have no idea what time it is scheduled to start. Since I do not, as yet, have any cottages scheduled I will be able to fit both activities in without wearing myself out.