Feeling Sore

We planted trees in the park today, during this chapter of the continuous saga of the Gracywoods park against the Utilities. Overall, over a hundred trees were planted, withe help from the city's park department and volunteers from TreeFolks and the neighborhood.

Most of the holes were dug by the city yesterday -- except in our section, where we had to dig them ourselves. So now I feel the effects of the spade, shovel and digging bar in all sorts of places. It was a beautiful day for the work, though. Cool and sunny and the top soil was nicely soft thanks to all the rains we'd had.

Jennifer and I donated a Chinguapin Oak to the park, so we'll have to find where one got planted and make sure Homer claims it as his own.

There were news crews frome several stations at the planting today. It's rather ironic how after all the push-back we've been getting from Austin Energy and LCRA, they're making a big PR event out of this. Whatever it takes, I guess.