We rented a mid-sized tiller from Taylor Rental.  Ron powered through all of the new garden plots and the front section where the big arbor vitae used to be.

The tiller helped a lot, but the former tree area still has a lot of big roots.

I drove Robert yesterday and today.  Picked up Alpha in Hyannis, found the address okay.

Made two entrees tonight, chicken cutlets and chicken stir fry.  Came out very well, then I knocked a half-full bottle of O’Doul’s on the floor and managed to get it on both scatter rugs.  Furious, livid.  Then Ron was on me for not using the “right” paper towel roll and stopping the garden watering 11 minutes early.

You just can’t please some people any of the time!

We went to a pizza luncheon at the Senior Center yesterday.

Lighthouse Beach, Chatham

Chapoquoit Beach, West Falmouth

South Cape Beach, Mashpee

Sandy Neck Beach Park, West Barnstable

Longnook Beach, Truro

Cold Storage Beach, Dennis

Newcomb Hollow Beach, Wellfleet

Grays Beach, Yarmouthport

Nauset Beach, Orleans

Old Silver Beach, North Falmouth

West Dennis Beach

Town Neck Beach, Sandwich

I’ve been pounding my head against the wall for days looking for McLean relatives.

I was sure that at one point, I found a whole family tree.  After hours of searching, though, I think it might have been Ron’s family.

In any event, I am worn out.

After doing almost nothing all day, Ron volunteered to cut the grass; good fellow.

We picked up baked goods at the Senior Center.  Peter was passing through and stopped in for rolls, a cuke and tomatoes.

I got the manure unloaded and spread.  We added chopped leaves and some of the fine tree debris.

The plan is to rent a tiller, first to mulch up the beds in the front and back and then later, to mulch the garden once it’s gone by.

Watched a glorious animated film last night from Ireland called “Song of the Sea.”  It’s up for an Academy Award.

I drove Robert and Alpha today.  Did the transfer station run as well with Ron.

Stopped at Emma’s a little after 5 for sheep manure.

Ron did laundry.

Got some ideas for plantings at the top of the driveway at Mahoney’s: pennisetum alopecuroides, porcupine grass (micanthus), Gaura.  Came home with another yard of loam.

Rinsed and washed the seaweed a second time.

Did a brief volunteer stint, as promised, at the Yellow Dog Music Fest at Craigville Beach, a fundraiser for the Barnstable Land Trust.  It was the first and probably only time I’ll ever be welcome to the beach side of the CBA!  My biggest contribution was taking home a pile of cardboard for recycling.

Learned that Paul died two days ago.

Hummer was flying around the autumn clematis at lunch time. They are almost as elusive as Lucy!

We had quite a deluge yesterday, including thunder and lightning. We were able to clean up the last patch of grass clods before it started.

Did laundry and Ron ran errands.

I’m still trying to configure at least one laptop that can run SQL and Visual Studio and that won’t crash with SonicWall.

Tweaked CCO one more time, hope to get their sign-off today. Got RFC and Triumph done for Jim.

Gathered seaweed for the garden at South Cape this afternoon. Gloomy day turned gorgeous, enjoyed both.

We rented a big hydraulic tiller this morning and got two arid areas nicely cleaned up and prepped for better things by 5 PM. Had pizza at Zoe’s with Robert.

Maybe, just maybe, it was that $34 million exit package that Cheney got when he left his CEO position at Halliburton to become an honorable public servant. Halliburton received around $40 billion in government contracts in the decade after 2003, many of those without bidding. Three years after the Iraqi invasion, its stock had risen by about 300 percent.

There was an estimated 31-60 billion dollars worth of contractor fraud and waste in Iraq war, and a large part of that came from Halliburton, now known as KBR. As Adam Weinstein reported for Mother Jones, KBR cost “at least $193 million in pay for unnecessary personnel, and maybe as much as $300 million,” which includes $100 million of government-furnished property that cannot be accounted for. KBR has also been blamed for the electrocution and death of 12 soldiers, because of poor wiring jobs at army bases.

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/05/dick_cheneys_savage_revisionist_history_inside_his_disturbing_campaign_to_twist_the_facts_of_iraq/

On the phone first thing with First Data.  We got the website fixed.

I mowed the lawn, back and front; left the clippings.

Yesterday, truck and I hauled 2 yards of loam, purchased at Mahoney’s, for planting at the end of the driveway.

Unfortunately, I didn’t think to rent a tiller until afterwards.  Ron was nice enough to pick up a small one at the last minute from Botello, but it can’t cut it, haha.

Hot dogs for supper!

Today, I did 3 loads of laundry and made the transfer station run.  Transplanted a flower that was overwhelmed in the grass garden at Edgewater.  Ron and I changed the sheets.  Watered the side and herb gardens.  Drove Robert to work.

Spoke briefly with Cathy, she was too sick for a long conversation.  Texted Cindy yesterday.