Planting & More Beer

This morning I went out to house two to see how it is going.

One of the beer containers had this large slug.  It is about one inch long.  There is not much evidence of the slugs eating the radishes.

I pulled a couple of dozen radishes.  Most of them were free from slug damage.  

It is about time to plant some peas.  I planted one 1206 tray with Green Arrow peas.  There are two peas in each cell.  I watered them well and put them on the heading pads.  

I planted two six packs with burpless cucumbers. 

I covered each cell with some vermiculite and put them in the bucket with water in the bottom.  They soaked up the water and were completely wet.

The sticky traps are filling up with a lot of flying insects.  This one is attached to the bamboo stick.  It is placed in a horizontal position.

I don't know why I didn't think of this idea a coupe of years ago.  The doorway to house three has poultry wire door to keep the cats out.  I put on this hook and eye latch to keep the door closed.  At night I close the storm door during the cold nights.

 We went to Fillmore for some groceries.  I bought a can of beer filled these small portion containers.  I made a small hole and pushed them into the ground so the top of the containers is level with the ground.

I hoed out all of the weeds in house six.  Most were grasses.  The milk weeds , I gave them to the chickens.  They really like them.

I cut two bunches of French parsley.  I made two CSA sacks  with parsley, radishes, and onions.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Provo, Lindon, and Home

We drove to Provo this morning.  Carol had an appointment at the Utah Valley hospital for her annual mammogram.  The hospital has being remodeled for about four years.  It is pretty well finished now. We quickly found a place to park and then walked in.  We talked to a man at the desk near the north door.  He didn't know where the location of imagining center. He directed us to the main information center.  The woman there led through a series of halls that changed directions and pointed to a sign that said "mammogram."  We went to the door and it was locked.  We waited around some wondering what to do next.  Some one with a key opened the door for us.  Told us to wait and came back with a lady who led us to them mammogram center.  It turned out that Carol had the wrong date.  A couple of weeks ago someone called her with the appointment date and time. Carol got the time right, but date was  not clear and she got it wrong.

We went to the Murdock Motors to have our car serviced.  They had it ready in about twenty-five minutes.  From there went Nyleen and Miles place. We then wet to Costa Vida for lunch.  We all ordered the same thing except Nyleen who ordered a salad.

I had a waitress take the picture. Mile, Merrill, Carol, and Nyleen. There was way to much food and I was completely stuffed.

After lunch Miles gave me a hair cut.  We stopped Gay Peay's house, Carol's brother, and had a nice visit.  Out last stop was at Home Depot where I wanted to get a Miter leveler for my table saw.  I couldn't find one.  We then drove straight home.

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Sunday and Monday

We haven't seen any deer for several days, but Sunday afternoon there were three deer in the yard.  I started taking pictures and walked a little close to them.  The next five photos are of the deer on the lawn just back of our house.

I have been fasting this morning.  I am going to have a diabetes check.  The nurse at the hospital drew five vials of blood.  She did a good job.

The tomato plants that I propagated early last November are doing well and most of them have some fruit.  The one above is a large Yellow Roma. They are about the size of a teaspoon.

This leaf is from a tomato plant.  It was on my knee when I took the picture.  Many of our plants are infested with aphids.  There are  a couple of aphids on it.

I put a lot of these blue sticky traps to catch aphids and any other flying insect.

 These are small broccoli plants.

More plants.

There are ten pots of strawberry plants that I removed all the dead leaves.

Here they are all together. It took me nearly two hours to clean them up.

Pulled a few radishes and picked a one tomato.  They are small and not many left.  Some of the radishes have scars from the snails. but there were no fresh ones.

I watered the north side of house six.  I want the weeds to germinate.  It was much warmer in house two and six this afternoon.  

I made me a salad of lettuce, raisons, radishes, tomatoes,  peas, and sunflowers seeds.  I used salsa instead of dressing.  It tasted good.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Pedestal, Slugs

We went for a ride late this afternoon.  We drove through Holden and then drove to Fillmore.  We got ice cream cones at the Iceberg.  Carol got chocolate and I had a vanilla cone.  We then drove up and down some streets in Fillmore.  Lot of dirty looking snow.

There were years of time cards, credit card receipts and carbon copies of old checks.  Some were ten years old.  I shredded all of them.  In the photo above is a time card setting on the shredder.

The sticky cards I put out a few days ago are loaded with various insects.  I put out a new one by the bell peppers.  Late this afternoon it was covered with insects.  Most of the are flying aphids.

I checked the all of the beer containers.  The one on the south end of the raised bed which has not attracted and slugs for a while had two large ones.   The fork is for size comparison.

I pulled a nice bunch of radishes.  A couple of them had been nibbled by slugs. I gave the tops to the chickens.

I removed the roots and  washed them.

I cut them into small pieces.

And made a salad with radishes, and egg, raisons, sunflower seeds, and peas from last summer garden.  It took awhile, but I ate it all.

I dug up the soil on the north end of the raised bed; smoothed it off; preparing it for more planting.  I pushed the PVC pipe in the soil and made three rows.

I planted radishes, Detroit Red Beets, and new carrot seeds.  Row one are radishes, rows two are beets and the wide row three are Scarlet Nantes.

I planted a tray of Early Wonder Tall Top beets.  The tray has 105 cells.  These are for beet greens.

 The same tray but a closer look at the label.

I started a pedastol in the garage last week.  I hoped to finish it today, but didn't make it.  The picture above is one of the steps in the progress.  The large clamp is holding the stem/stand to small braces.

Above is the base with the braces.  I glued the brace and stem to the base.  There is a weight on top to hold it tight until the glue set.  After supper I went out to the garage to drive some screws through the bottom of the base up into the braces.  When I picked it up the glue had not cured and the base fell off.  I put it back together and will finish it in the morning.


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Four Packs of Seeds

This morning I shredded old papers outlining communication with the Holt Adoption agency in Oregon.  That is agency we used to adopt our daughter, Melissa.

I have been waiting for a seed order since Monday.  I even sent an email yesterday wondering what happened to my order.  I went to the post office and the package of seeds arrived.

The package contained four seed packs.  Two packs of seeds of the eggplant, black Beauty; a pack of eggplant, Pride; and a pack of onion seeds, Kelsea.

I planted two trays; one tray of Kelsea onions and about three quarters of another tray finished by three six packs of the Black Beauty eggplants.

This afternoon  I found another large folder of Melissa's papers were more legal papers that documented her adoption procedures.  Most of the papers and pictures and letters were historical in nature.  I discussed this with Carol.  We decided to save most of the papers.

I took and hour off to do my home teaching which is now called ministering.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Day After the Snow Storm

Carol backed out of the garage through ten inches of snow, and got stuck when she backed in the hard snow that the a snowplow pushed across our driveway.  I got our large shovel and cleaned away the snow behind the car and behind the front tires.  I then backed out one the road.  Carol got back in the car.  We picked up Carol Gager and went to the Manti Utah temple.

Rod Dastrup, a town employee bushed off the snow from the concrete driveway and the snow off the drive way in front of our house.

This photo is from yesterday, but show this small container of beer which this morning contained lots of slugs.

I poured the slugs and beer through a sieve and discovered dozens of tiny slugs and three larger ones. I dumped the slugs on a white table top, and took the picture.

I dumped the beer of three of the containers and filled them up with fresh beer.  The photo shows the sieve.


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Eight Inches by Noon

Yesterday's forecast was snow all day. It started snowing this morning at seven and eight inches by noon.

19 January Saturday 
I took a few photos which are posted below.

This a small radish with a chuck of radish missing.  The match give a comparison as the size.  I thought that mice were eating them. I caught a mouse and set out some mouse bait.  Nothing has eaten the bait and still something is eating the radishes.  

I had some cucumbers plants growing and the are beginning to die.

I removed the old cucumber plants and replaced them with the seedlings.

I caught this cat napping in house three.  He has white socks and his tail is missing.  I see him almost every day.

Yesterday, I put enough beer in the can to cover the bottom.  When I looked at it this morning there was some beer but no slugs.  I filled it to the top with beer.

Sunday

When I went out to the greenhouse after church. there was on big slug in the can.

I took it out and got a picture.  It was a little over an inch long.

I found another can and move it a couple of rows to the right, buried it in the soil, and filled it with beer.  The beer foamed up, I topped it off with a little more beer.

Above is how it looked after the foam went away.

Monday

I caught another large slug.

This fuzzy picture is of a small portion container full of beer.  I put it out Sunday afternoon and this morning there were two slugs.  I set it by the pole beans which were badly eaten.

It snowed all day so far.  I made a path across the lawn to the hen house through eight inches of snow.

Here I am standing in front of the garage looking across the driveway to the street.  Here there is seven inches of heavy new snow.

Early this afternoon I shovel eight or nine inches of snow oft the front sidewalk and steps.

Comments and questions are welcome.