Ed Watkins and his crew finished building our new pasture gate, it is made of aluminum so it cannot be eaten or chewed by equines, it is easy to open and shut, it does not shift or swell in bad weather. Ed did a huge amount of work here. He and Chris and a helper  re-stacked the wood in the woodshed, cleaned up the yard and the big barn, fixed the broken glass in the barn window, trimmed and pruned the big apple tree.

His bill that two days of work plus two cords of wood (which his workers will unload and stack is less than I spent on medications in one visit to the pharmacy last week (coverage gap, hole in the donut).

A farm is, in some ways, defined by its gates and windows. We try and keep up with ours. Ed is a find, he is a good and genial man and a hard worker.