Why I post less in the summer

Because there's MORE TO DO outside.

I'm writing and speaking as usual, but as summer gets underway, things that have to be done on the farm multiply. Most recently, peaches had to be thinned–they grow like THIS before thinning.

More than half of those need to come off so that the others have room to ripen.

Here are my three helpers, from top to bottom in descending order of actual usefulness (that's not counting my father, the Head Honcho, who's supervising from that chair behind Emily):

And...