....my DeWalt drill/ driver that I use almost daily packed up a week or so ago....makes life difficult not having such a reliable tool to hand....so today I got a couple of old drill/ drivers I've had in box for years since the old NiCad batteries died....never really knew what to do with them, but they are still working tools, just got dead batteries....so today I got the hacksaw out and cut the battery cradle off the recently deceased DeWalt and fastened it to the base of a hacksaw modified drill....works perfectly....then, feeling inspired, I chopped the battery cradle off the last of the Emisters I've had kicking around....modded an old Bosch drill that now works perfecty too....so I've gone from no drill to two working drills, and I've got about 15 DeWalt pattern batteries to use, so I might start modding some more old dead battery powered tools next....

....got some nice golden plums that will be ripe soon....

....the apples are doing ok, but not as well as the plums....several trees with no fruit at all....

....before....

....all cropped yesterday....