Thanks to my favorite Veterans

We'll need a Navy flag, too.

Flagpole

Last year's birthday present was the flagpole and flag;  this year's was the labor to install it.  It's a Titan, 20' fiberglass telescoping pole with a solar light on top which will hold 2 3x5 flags. Lucky for us the WHIP auger men had a 12" auger so the hole went in like drilling through butter.  We used a cement form and about 100 lbs of quickcrete concrete, mixed in the wheelbarrow.

Mole Holes?

The grass that RayP sprayed looks like it's dying nicely.

The auger and skid steer were fixed and ready to drill our planting holes, so James showed up around 0930.  First, he drilled the 12 inch diameter, 3 ft deep hole that will be used for our Titan Telescoping Flagpole, one of my Christmas presents.  Then he switched to the 9 inch diameter auger and used that to drill the tree holes 2 ft deep, and then the shrub holes 1 ft deep.  James worked straight through to 1630, but he got all the holes finished:  87 tree holes and 152 shrub holes. During the augering I went to the compost facility to get 2 pickup truckloads of compost.  I shoveled the compost around and into all of the tree holes to prepare them for planting.

Shawn Reigh  335 High Street Ext, Unionville, PA 19375  (814 280-1159)  Reigh Services Inc. Skid steer worker was James.

Flagstone Connection and flagpole

We finally bought a flagpole (Paul's 2011 birthday present). Now the question is where to put it, or more correctly, where can "we" dig a 26" deep hole.

Paul embedded the last square yard of the walkway yesterday and today he distributed some compost along the inside of the walkway to help control weeds and provide a basis for future planting. He still has a couple of wobbly flagstones that need to be raised or lowered maybe as much as 0.25 inch. He'll add soil and compost alongside the edges of the walkway to lock in the crushed rock, sand, and flagstones to make a nice bed for planting.  Looks great.

Reading Reinventing Leona Lynn Gentry *** What is the pastor's wife after the pastor dies in the pulpit?  The small town parishioners and her family help her find out. Are we defined by our position in society or our occupation?   Cute, with some passages that pose excellent end-of-life questions for all of us to ponder. Gentry reminds us that we are multifaceted and must not allow one facet to over-balance the other parts of our lives: wife, mother, and what?