Monday, And Moday All Day

We picked all the cucumber this morning.  One big bucket of Armenians and nearly a bucket full of the Burpless cucumbers.  Carol washed them.  Carol took some of them to her friends.  Her visiting teachers got some, and the rest of them ended up at the Post office.  They were all gone except one Armenian and an eggplant.

Todd Troseth rang the doorbell.  He is ready to start making the patio.  I started to move the patio furniture.  I moved them to the north side of the lawn as shown in the photo below.

This is where the furniture had been for nearly three months.  The grass is showing signs being shielded from the direct sun.

Todd's skid steer which is used for hauling the soil away and for bring in road base.

This lantana did not get enough water.  It was in a smaller pot and dried out rather quickly.  I pruned the dead branches and put it in a larger pot.

While the crew was to lunch, I finished the propagation of some ever baring strawberry plants.

Todd and his track hoe.  He is lowering the elevation some.  He will bring in road base.  The road base plus the concrete will be higher than the lawn, so the water will run off.

A service berry tree which has been slowly dying over the last four or five years.  Spencer gut the tree down leaving a four foot stump.  Todd then pulled it out with the track hoe.

It is now ready for rebar and then the concrete.

 We have a lot of large Roma type tomato plants.  They are producing well.  The photo illustrates it.

We needed a place to for the excavated soil. I had him remove the pea shrubs.

The soil was put west of the pea shrubs.  With the pea shrubs gone, he was able to turn around.

I had and appointment with Steve's tires to have our car serviced and tires rotated.  We took the car to Fillmore this afternoon.  Carol drove the car and I drove the truck.  We came home in the truck.  

Later, we went back to Fillmore for the car.  There was a wreck and a fire about a half mile from the Holden exit.  The south bound traffic was diverted to the east frontage road.  We took the west frontage road where I was able to get the following pictures.

While in Fillmore I got gasoline for the lawnmower and filled the truck with diesel fuel.  I removed the fuel tank cover and was face to face with a hornets nest.  I had a long stick  and from a distance removed it.  The hornets flew away and the nest fell to the ground where I stepped on it.  There was another small nest in the pickup.  I removed it with the same stick.

This swam of ants are in the chicken run.  They are swarming the remnants of pomegranates.

Comments and questions are welcomed.