Started a New Mic Cable Stand

I had an appointment with my cardiologist at 12:15.  I am good for another six months.  I have another appointment in September.

A couple of weeks ago I saw the cauliflower starting to form a head.  I got the picture this afternoon.  It doesn't look as white as it should.  I think I will pick it tomorrow.

 This morning when I was checking through house two, I saw the row of lettuce plants that had been eaten by slugs, I think.  The leaves on the row two the right of those onions are partially eaten and two at the bottom are completely eaten.

Two things here.  The blue circle around a stem of lettuce leaves are completely gone.  The other is the butter tub I buried in the soil which is filled with beer.

I pruned a lot of the dead leaves of this large Dracaena shrub\tree.  It is getting big.

A month ago the plastic cover behind the bumper broke.  I wired it up last week.  Today I did a little more repair work on it. I used a small drill to make a hole and wire it in a better place.  There was not enough room for the drill.  There is a jack in the somewhere in the trunk.  I didn't want to get it out and then have to put it back.  I put two 2x8 boards in front of the tire and drove the car on to of the boards.  It worked and I was able to make the holes and wire it together.  Looks as good as new.  I should have taken the picture while the tire was on to of the board.

Here is the mic cable stand.  I ripped a 24 inch 2x4 in half and getting two 1x4 pieces.  I pushed them through the plainer so both were the same size.  I made two four inch 2x4 s and round the top edge.  Two mic cords will hang on them.  One on the left and the other one on the right.  I sanded all the parts and glued the two hanger piece to the center up right.  I made holes for the screws.  In the above picture is a weight on the two hangers.

Our little black hen's feeder was empty.  I filled it up.  She get the hen scratch through the holes.



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House Two

We drove to Fillmore for groceries and to get air in the car tires.  On the way home we stopped at The Ice Burg and bought two ice cream cones.  Carrol got chocolate and I got vanilla.





Started another table saw sled

 It snowed several times a couple of days ago.  I pushed a path last Monday.  Tuesday afternoon Carol and I cleaned over half of the driveway.  It has been quite warm this afternoon so I removed the rest of the snow.  Driveway is pretty clear.

Freezing temperature  with water and sprinkler is making a pretty pile of ice.  I shut off the water for about four hours and turned it back on when the temperature dropped to freezing.

Later this afternoon  I made a video of what we are doing in house two.  I did it twice.  The first time I pushed the stop button instead of the pause button before I was finished.  I put it on You Tube which took a while.  At the end I stopped without leaving an end statement.  
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmd8h96OM-M

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More Snow

The bench is finished.  There may need to make some cosmetic adjustments.

It was snowing some when we got up and it continue light snow until the afternoon.  I made a snow pusher pictured above, which idea came to me during the night.  It is a piece of 3/4 inch plywood twenty four inches long and about seven inches deep.  I made a handle out of an eight foot 2x2.  It was too long and I cut it at and 45 degree angle.  It was too short.  There is another piece in house six which I cut to the right length.  I changed the angle to 30 degrees,  I put a brace next the board and fastened it with screws.  It worked really well.  I cleaned the snow off the driveway and front side walk.  It was way faster than the scoop shovel.

All I needed to do was push the snow.  I used a scoop shovel for a little clean up.

Eric is bringing us some baby chicks in the morning.  I found this old box that used to have a base for oranges of melons.  I was buried in the snow in house five.  I uncovered it with a shovel.  I was going to have it in the garage.

I carried it to house two where it is warmer to let it dry out.  I decided to leave it in house two.  I brought the heating lamp and an extension cord for night time warmth.  The greenhouse temp is set at 40 degrees.  I found the feed tray which was in the garage.  I couldn't find the water bottle.   

Most of the slug traps are catching slugs.  There are two that have not trapped any slugs.  I put a trap in a new place and caught a couple of small slugs during the day.  

A closer look.   It doesn't show the two small slugs.

 The ice work continues to grow.  It freezes all night and all day.

An other angle.




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Mistakes on the Bench

I began work on the bench.

 I had the legs glued up and started to do the foot and the upper bracket.  I drilled the holes and drove in the dowels and discovered that I had the top bracket upside down.  I had to take it apart and fortunately   the glue had not set. I pounded on them and it came apart.

Had a lot of trouble with this bench leg.  I glued on thin piece of wood to it would not rock.  The earlier one that I did was to thin.  I did another one that was thicker.  Works good.

A broccoli  plant that is beginning to make a head.  It may be ready in two more weeks.

Red beets are doing very well.  The should be ready to harvest in two more weeks

I pulled red beets from bed one, boiled them for supper.  So good..

Pole beans on bed one.  The will climb the strings.
Robert Transplanted lettuce Saturday.  I transplanted Peaches and Cream sweet corn.  I put one between each lettuce plants.  The lettuce will be harvested long before the corn gets tall.

Our good neighbor with his four wheeler pushed the snow out of our drive way.

 Burpless cucumbers that are coming up.  One seed in each cell.  All have germinated.

A slug trap using beer.  No slugs, but there are a lot of tiny things that look like a bug.

Paul and Marilyn from Tooele stopped by this afternoon.  We haven't seen them for quite awhile and we had a good visit.



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Bench Work / Frozen Pipe

 A couple of days ago I posted on Face Book a container filled with beer and the slugs that were attracted by the beer.  A person on Face Book wanted to know what beer we used.  I posted the above photo.

Carol put this puzzle together today.  It is an image of what was done years ago with what we are doing today.

 Our cat, Tiger, sitting in the sun on top of our barbeque set.  It is covered with a blue tarp to keep it dry.

I made a hole through the tenon to hold the stretcher to the legs.  I made the hole for a pin. The holes were not hardly big enough and deep enough to make a tight fitting wedge.  I used a jigsaw to make the holes wide and deep enough.   The leg were too wide and covered the lag screw hole  a little.  I ripped both sides of the legs to make them more narrow.  I then softened the edges again,  New cutting required more staining.

I used lag screws to hold the upper bracket to the underside of the bench top.  I drilled a small hole through the bracket and then used a 3/4 inch spade bit two counter sink about 3/4 inch deep and make a small piolet hole. the lag screw and washer goes through the hole and drove into the bench. 

The above picture shows it from a different angle.

Next I glued the bracket and the foot together.  I also used dowels on the lower bracket and leg.  That was hard to keep everything lined up.  I gave up on the other leg.  I glued them together and clamped it tight on one side and on the other side.  Tomorrow I will use the dowels.

A little after five I walked to house two to do some watering.  The fertilizer injector was working a hundred mile per hour.  I forgot to turn off the injector and the fertilizer tank was nearly empty.  I could hear water running.  I walked to house six.  There was water running down the path and into house five.  I had to go back to house two to shut of the water.

The pipe broke just below the  hose bib.  I walked back to the garage to get cement, primer, and a saw.  Laying on the ground were a few parts I needed.  I found another hose bib.  I cut the broken piece off; there was enough pipe to glue all the parts together. I left a little water running.  It all worked out.

If I had not gone out, the water would have run all night and the pipe that waters the chicken would have frozen and then I would of had a mess to deal with in the morning.



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Cold Day

The lost round saw blade is found.

There are people in Holden with tractors that push the snow off of driveways.  I thought that when we got home from the temple that our driveway would be clear of snow.  It wasn't.  Carol and I got the shovels and started on our long driveway.  We cleaned about 2/3's of the driveway.

The temperature has been below freezing since last night. I ice has grown much larger.  The next few picture are of the same ice, but from different angles.

 Yesterday in house two, Robert and Frank buried some cat food cans in the soil and filled them with beer.  Twenty-four hours later then had attracted slugs.  Two had twelve slugs in it the other one had caught six slugs.  There were no snails.

I covered the slug bait with a butter tub placed upsided down.  I put them on when watering.

 I filled these plug cells with potting soil.  The one above is planted with Leeks.  One seed per cell.

 Above is a small tray of curl-leaf parsley.  One seed per cell.

Here is a group of them on the heating pad.

Transplanted  Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato.  These were planted 2 February 2018

Lettuce that was not transplanted yesterday.  It is perking up a little.  Water every day.

I took some hen scratch to  our black hen and discovered that the water pan was frozen solid.  I took it out to house two to thaw out.  There was a large night-crawler under the water contain.  Black hen quickly grabbed it and down it went.

 I got a a gallon of hot water from the house and poured in on the hose bib and PVC stub.  It took about half of the water.  It water began to flow.  I turned the volume down.  The hen was glad to get a drink.

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Robert and Frank and Snow

It started snowing around two this morning.  After breakfast there was six inches of snow on our driveway.  It snowed most of the day and added another four inches of snow.

First thing after breakfast was to turn on the furnace in house six.  There was about ten inches of snow on the poly.  I remove the deep snow in front of the door.   I turned the on the furnace, the gas was ignited, and then I hung the poly Curtin over the fan on the north west corner.  I left and came back because the furnace shut off.  I followed the thermostat wire to the thermostat which was covered with dried left over tomato plants.  I turned it up and the furnace turned on.  I left it on the rest of the day.

This is the first picture I took this morning.  It is ponderosa pine decorated with frosty snow.

House six is warming some.  The snow is beginning to slide.

The snow on the top of the roof also is beginning to slide.  By the end of the day, most of the heavy snow had slid down the sides.

Robert and Frank were here.  Robert prepared a planting bed in house six. He removed all of the plant material, then drove the tiller through it five or six times.  We stretched the twine to show the boarder on both sides.  Other areas will be prepare at a later date.  It is ready for carrot, red beats, chard, turnips, radishes, etc.

Robert is planting the Styrofoam trays with leafy vegetable seeds.  Frank is helping.

 Robert transplanted a lot of the lettuce. 

I had bush snap beans here that were not doing well.  He pulled them up and replaced the with lettuce.

On the left are the lettuce plants left over.  Will find a place for them.

We have a lot of Styrofoam plug cells.  I cut them into five inch sections.  Robert finished the day by planting various seeds of leafy plants.

We have had problems with snails and slugs.  Frank brought three cans of beer.  He poured it into soft cat food cans.  They are partially buried in the soil.  It is said that beer attracts slugs and snails.  We will see tomorrow afternoon.



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