Okay, I came up with a plausible solution to the cannonball lifting problem. A shipbusting cannon needs to shoot big balls that are too heavy to lift by hand, so I designed a 20th century solution to an 18th century problem, and gave poor Harry a modified forklift. Thanks to skoshi for pointing out this problem to me.

This is also delaying the NEXT four pages, because at least one of them already had a scene of Harry reloading the cannon by hand, which needed the same changes. I'm done with that now, but I'm still coloring page 183, and haven't started 184, which is getting close to the next change of scene, so I'm not even sure what this page will be about!

Meanwhile, I just cut down a 27 inch douglas fir tree which was leaning slightly toward my house. It only took ten hours to bring it down, and now I'm sore, tired, and overslept. Oh well. It did land exactly where I wanted it to, after being stuck in a madrone. It fell just a little too slowly to smash its way to the ground, till I finally got the chain off.