Full Speed fo Hemp

We were home from the temple after dark Saturday night.  To late for any pictures,  But there was a photo on Face Book.  Sunday morning I got a photo.

Things are moving fast.  They removed all of the raised bed and started fill the root control bags.  There is one row against the west wall and the next row is started.

I picked every tomato that starting to turn red or in the case of Yellow Lemon.  I got a couple of buckets.  I also picked a bucket of cucumbers.  I wanted a photo. but forgot.

I was cold last night and frost on the lawn.  The summer squash was frozen as well as tomatoes.

This morning Shane and Duston were busy filling more bags.   They also put up the LED lights which will shine on each row.

I helped some by filling bags with the old potting soil west of house six.

This evening Adam joined them filling more bags.

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Six Deer This Morning

I started the day by working on the three legged stool.   I picked a bucket of cucumbers.

I walked to the driveway, and there was one doe standing under the large tree west of the driveway.  It took off a running.  Two other deer were there.  The two smaller deer went to the south and disappeared in the west side of our yard.  The mother jumped over the fence next to the Stephenson's home.  I took some cucumbers to the post office.  When I came back I saw six deer.  There are five in the photo above.

After lunch I mowed the lawn.  Last time I cut the grass at 2 1/2 inches.  I did it again today.  I dumped the bags three times.  There were a lot of leaves in one bag.  I emptied them in the north garden.

I worked on the new stool several different times during the day.  The stool has three legs.  I had to cut mortises in the top for the three legs.  The first mortice went pretty good.  I band saw would make it an easy job.  I used several different saws including the table saw.  There was a weak spot in the top and it broke away from the bigger part of the stool.  I glued it back together.  Finally I got the legs in and they were plumb.   

This is the last picture.  It is standing decently. There are a lot of gaps that I will need to fill.  The stool is not for sitting, but a place for a vase.

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CSA Bucket - Last One Next Week

It was a little cold this morning outside so I worked in the garage for awhile, while waiting for it to warm up some.  Last night I left the Viking stool to set in the vice while the glue on the new leg set up.

This morning I glued and inserted more wedges into the leg to hold it more securely.  I cut off more of the leg that was pruding above the seat.

I had a little bit of lacquer left which I painted the leg and then top of the stool.   I then took it out on the patio to dry.

I began work on the seat of another stool made out of red wood.  I glued all the pieces together for the seat.   I cut out the circle with my jigsaw.  It was pretty rough after I finished.  I carful trimmed the rough edges at the table saw.

Shane England, Duston, and two friends stopped by.  Shane was showing the two friends the operation.  I think that they will be working here.

Tonight, Shane brought his family to look at the greenhouse.  His wife and kids may also work here.

for the next hour and a half I picked tomatoes and peppers and eggplants, and pulled salad onions. beats, onions,  and carrots.   Above are the beats and salad onions.

and a fuzzy photo of the carrots.

I washed them.  I then took them into the kitchen where I washed them again and filled the CSA bucket.

When I went out to get the onions, there were three deer in the yard.  They jumped over the fence into Raymond Stephenson's yard.

The ate parts of a lot of green melons.

They nearly destroyed the whole melon patch.  I covered was not bothered with tree baskets.

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Another Meeting

I picked a bucket of cucumbers.  I didn't think that there would be many.  I am planning on another meeting concerning hemp.  But I don't know when.  I was in the greenhouses working and the phone rang.  It was Adam and they would be here about nine.  It was about 9:15 before they got here.  We met in the front room.  Carol didn't want to be in the meeting.  We then went out to the greenhouses to go to see what needed to be done to get the greenhouses ready.

They will pay all of the utilities,  gas and electricity.   There would be three crops in house six. The first would be started in a couple of weeks.   The first crop would be harvested and sold in January.  There would be a crop every three months.  It was my understanding that I would be paid $15,000 every three months.  It seems to be to good to be true.  We will see.

I put another coat of varnish on the Viking stool.  Later in the morning after our meeting I decided to put a new leg in the stool.  I used an electric drill to drill out the old leg.

I looked all around for an old piece of  wood long and thick enough to make a new leg.  I couldn't find one.  I finally found a 3x3x6 foot board.

I trimmed each side until I got it to fit in the lathe.  

It didn't take me long to get it round.

I made the tenon which will fit the socket.  

I got it fixed to fit.  Next is to glue it into place.

 I glued it into place. I had to use a couple of small wedges so it would not move while the glue set.

It is glued and setting much better.  I need to add more glue and a couple of small wedges.  I will glue the new wedge in, tomorrow.


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A Day of Free Range

We were up early this morning.  I usually don't let the chickens out until about four in the afternoon.   It was twelve hour early today.  I let them out at four this morning, just before we left for the Manti, Utah temple.

We had a good day at the temple.  As soon as we got home. we had lunch.  I put varnish on the bottom and legs of  the Viking stool.  One leg is pointing in the wronge direction.

I am pulling out the weed barrier where I want to build a shed for the lawn mower and other equipment.

The above photo shows the underside of the stool.  I put a heavy coat of varnish on the underside.  I also did the legs.  I turned it right side up and put another coat on the top of the seat.

I picked a bucket of cucumbers.  I was quite surprise of how many there were.


Comments and questions are welcome.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Our Drive to Linden

No pictures today.  I forgot.   First thing picked was a bucket of cucumbers.   I picked two large buckets of tomatoes.  Each bucket contained about one half bushel.  And then another bucket half full of what I call Purple Cherry.  They are about the size of a golf ball.  They are more teardrop shape than round.  I also picked Jalapeno and Anaheim peppers.  The final picking was eggplants.  Most of the eggplants went to the post office, Share the Harvest.

We then drove to Provo and bought a few things at Sam's Club.  Next stop was in Linden where Miles cut my hair.  We also game them the bucket of cucumbers.

We went to lunch at Carl's Junior.  I had a chicken sandwich.  On the way home we stopped at the Church Distribution Center where we got a CD for Jim Masner's birthday.  I got some double sided tape for working in wood.  We got gas at Costco and ice cream at the Red Barn.

We were home a little before six.  I prepared the greenhouses for the night and watered house two.

Continue Greenhouse Remodeling

I picked a bucketful of cucumbers.  We took most of them to the post office.  The rest we will take to Carol's sister.

There is a tomato plant by the cucumbers.  I cut most of it away and found several large cucumber.  I gave them to the chickens.

In the north east corner of house two is a composting bin.  I put all the plants that had died in the compost and any soil that went with them.  I don't know how long ago that I built it.  But with the remodel, I put the compost in the new raised beds.

After I removed all of the plant material that did not decompose.  I took them on the compost pile west of house six.

I took off the sides which were made out of 2x6 boards.  What you see in the above picture is the compost.

I started carrying the compost a shovel at a time to the new bed.  I could soon see that I needed to do it fast.  I then filled a large nursery can with the compost and carried it to the bed which I will call bed One, because it is the first one on the left.

The above photo shows all of the boards used to make the compost bin.  I took all of the screws out and ended up with a stack of 2x4's.  I needed to cut some to the length of twelve inches.  These were used to connect the 2x6 by twelve feet.  Most of the boards were redwood.  I will use them for making some stools.

I had to pull up all of the weed barrier that we put down years ago.  I cut it off with a pair of scissors.  I pulled it out the north door.

By now the sun was getting high in the sky on these desert 4 O'clock.  I got a good photo.

I brought over a wheelbarrow of recycled potting soil.  I put it on top of the compost on bed one.

 Here is how it is looks after the load of potting soil.  It looks a little dark because I wet it down.

Row bed two:  There is a strip of weed barrier between the doors.  I cut a strip along the right side of the bed.  I brought in two and a half loads of compost that I have out by the road.  

I then brought in three loads of potting soil.


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Making New Beds

This morning I started working in house two.  The planting beds or raised beds on the west side of house two are oriented in a north south direction.  The beds on the east side are positioned in west east direction.  I am changing all of them so they will be north and west.

I am extending the bed.  I put down one board and will attach to the one to the north.  The table blocks and other stuff needs to be moved.  

I moved this desert cactus.  I broke off some large pups and then cut off the top.  You see the cut edge on the right.

There a large Aloe Vera type looking plant that has been there for years.  I pulled it up and pulled off a small pup and planted it in the black nursery pot.

In the wheelbarrow is large cactus that I haven't watered for a long time.  On the right is the rest of the cactus.

I dumped the one Alloe Vera plant under the Elderberry tree by the far north garden.

A large desert four O'clock.  Not a very good photo.

Deer tracks in house six.  It looks like they came in, and then turned around and left.  No observable damage.   I think that there were two.  One smaller than the other one.

Here are more tracks.  

I needed some stakes to hold the 2x6's up right and in a straight row,

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I dumped a lot of pots.   The soil will be put in the raised beds.

Here is how it looks at the end of the day,  I have put some of the recycled soil in the bed.

Adam Remkes stopped by for a visit.  He asked if I were interested in renting our greenhouses to grow hemp.  He has a Friend that is interested.

I thought that a nice stain would look good on the Viking stool.  It is way to dark.  After stain had dried  I sanded it completely.  It took quite  a while.

Here is completely sanded I have started to put a coat of Urethane.

Here the top is finished.   The wedges are easily to see.   Tomorrow I think that I will sand it and put on more coats.  Also, I will do the legs.


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