There is one family of chickens here. They are nothing like the ones we had back in the old house. These are truly wild and we will not bother to start feeding them.

We have two weeks of classes and two days of finals and the school year is over at ND. Wakana gets out of school a few days earlier than I do.

My car is in the shop. The driver's seat fell through the floor boards a few months ago but I braced it back into place with a 2 by 4. I wasn't going to bother fixing it but then the transmission linkage jammed up and it had to go into the shop anyway. So they're fixing both problems and a few other minor bits too.

Our mountain apple tree has lots of fruit on it. I need to pick some and try them out. The fruit is very small (about 1 1/2 inches long) and shaped like a bell. Wakana gave a bunch of guavas to a friend of ours so I haven't tried them yet. Our mango tree has no blossoms so we do not expect any fruit this year.