The motor (pump) in the well was replaced and this always causes stirring up of years of accumulated deposits of orangish “rust” – – bacterial cells, and slimy materials that stick to well casings, pumps, pipes, plumbing fixtures. With the well open and the new pump placed the standard plan is to pour a gallon of bleach into the hole and then pump a lot of water through an outside faucet {not into the house}. After many gallons of orange water has been pumped out and new water has seeped through the rocks the water will be cleaner. Then the valve to the inside house gets opened and filters replaced, and life begins to return to normal. With that done, I did a load of dishes and a load of laundry.
I had clean water stored in plastic bottles for cooking. While the “cleansing” was happening I carried water from the creek for flushing. Trees and flowers benefited from the dirty water, rather than just letting it run onto the ground.
But, there is always something.
I’ve been using an old Craftsman 10″ radial arm saw. I can’t find a date on it. The motor was made by Emerson in the USA. We moved to Troy Idaho in 1974, and I think the saw was bought shortly after that.
This week it stopped on an overload and hasn’t responded to the normal fix of cooling and pressing the red “reset” button.
Recently, I’ve been cutting small lengths of trees and tree limbs to firewood size, about 15 inches. Sometimes these are oddly shaped and twist and bind the blade and I have about a second to hit the stop button or the motor shuts off. This week a stop occurred, and the rest button doesn’t work.
An update will follow next weekend.
A few of the plum trees are dropping small fruits, or self-thinning. A good paper on this is from Purdue University.
The photo is of my dwarf Shiro Plum tree. 
My April 27th post started with a photo of this tree at the height of blossoming. Lots of flowers need lots of bees but the trees don’t want that much fruit. If I touch a small yellow one it will fall. They will naturally fall and wind helps.
How do they know to do that?
The high temperature in EBRG was 97° today Sunday. Likely similar on Monday and then by Thursday the NWS says 76°. I’m usually 2 to 3 degrees cooler. The atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean next to Washington is going to send a cooler and cloudy week or two our way. In fact, Monday may be the highest for the Month of June.
Keeping Track
on the Naneum Fan
John