Chores

 

I woke up usual time. I watered the tubs and baskets.

 

A Few Drops

I spent most the morning watering the plants in the garden.  We watched some of the morning TV shows.

I took some potato peelings to chickens. Their lay pellet container was empty. There even wasn't any dust. 

There is a pine tree that was suffering because no rain. I found an old garden hose. I hocked one end to the tap and the other end to the tree.

I watered the garden. Some rows were partially clogged with weeds and soil. It took a long time to get the water to the end of the row.

I had buttered sweet potatoes for lunch. Very good.

This plant might be a pumpkin. I watered most of the back lawn with a sprinkler. We had enough rain to wet the front sidewalk. I watered the grape vines and watered the potato plants.

Watered Potatoes

Everything as usual this morning.  As soon as breakfast was over, I started the morning chores.

I watered the plants in green house five. There are lots of grapes. It looks some are getting ripe. I ate two of the purple ones. They were a little bit ripe.

I got the soaker hose that was in the west end of greenhouse six. I took it to greenhouse two. It was long enough to go down west row of potatoes come back on the east row. I hooked it up to the tap and turned on the water. I couldn't any water soaking out. I went back to the house for a few minutes, I told Carol that it wasn't working. Said you need to water with the hose. I then used the soaker hose, I watered the east row and came back watering the west row.

We caught earwigs and tiny ants during the night.

This is a picture of the south end of the drip line. On the right end there is a one-inch tear.

This is a topaz melon I planted several weeks ago.

The topaz melon is doing well. It is covered to keep deer from eating it.

I didn't plant this. I think it is pumpkin or banana squash.

Hot Night

 

We had a good breakfast this morning. It was about ten when I left home for Fillmore. I was looking for the barbar shop. I drove past it, then turned around. I soon was in the chair having my hair cut.

I came home and took this selfie.

Hot Day

 After breakfast this morning I started the water on the plants in the garden. I watered each row. It was a little difficult to keep the water in the row because dirt or mud clogged the water. I eventually got the garden watered. Carol went to her fitness class. After she came home, we drove to Fillmore and filled the car with gas. We then stopped at the market and bought a lot of groceries. The next stop was at the drug store. Carol made sandwiches for lunch. I watered the baskets and tubes. It is really hot.

Adam Remkes came and looked at the linking faucets. He will be back next week with a kit to fix them. This evening Carol and I went for a short ride around Holden. 

Carol picked the first cucumber; it is about six inches. For some reason it curled.

These are some flowers growing in the dahlia garden.

I put the sprinkler in the dahlia garden to water the dahlia wasn't getting any water,

I cut the yellow potatoes into thin pieces and fried them. The tasted really good.

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Payson Temple

After breakfast this morning we left Holden and headed to the temple in Payson. We were delayed some because of the road improvement at the north freeway entrance. There was a lot of traffic going north. After the session we stopped a Wendy's for hamburgers and drinks. There was a lot of road construction where one lane was closed. We stopped in Nephi ice cream cones. More construction on the south bound lane. We couldn't get off the freeway, so we drove to the south exit. We picked up the mail and came home.

Elderberry bush east of greenhouse six.

Figs on the fig bush in greenhouse six.

Another fig bush in greenhouse six. I hope that they will ripen before it freezes.

Another elderberry bush showing the beginning of fruits

Earwigs in a container of olive oil. The earwigs are eating the petunia flowers located in the kidney bed,

Mid Week

Watering the plants in the garden was the main thing that I did this morning. It has been so hot that plants dry rapidly dry out. I turned the water down a row and then come back to the house. I kept going out and coming back. I watered the baskets and tubs on the front porch. Carol was watering the lawn west of the garage. Later she went to her exercise class. She fixed two egg salad sandwiches. This afternoon I started to water the east lawn. 

The above photo shows the sprinkler. I move the hose every thirty minutes.