Today I "bagged" my fuji apple tree (see picture).  Fuji apples produce late (October) which necessitate many sprayings for the apple maggot.  I like my apples unsprayed, so I am following an organic practice of bagging them.  You put a little bag over each apple and staple it.  It stays on all summer.  Orchardists say they have 100% success with this method and have nice big juicy apples.  The only problem is that it is time consuming.  Thank goodness my tree is small.

I also thinned the chard,  beat the quail to the strawberries and got a quart of fruit, and sprayed the cherries with spinosad.  I don't like worms in my cherries so I use spray on them alone.  It was a beautiful day outside, so I brought Cuddles, our parrot outside to enjoy the weather (see side column)