Good Day at Manti Ut Temple

 We go to the Manti Utah temple every Tuesday morning.  Up at 4:30, leave at 5:15, and at the temple about 6:30 when it is just getting light.  It was a good experience.  We stopped at the Top Spot in Salina like we usually.  Were home about 2:30.  We had some lunch.

Towards evening Carol wanted to bottle a some tomatoes.  She put seven or eight tomatoes in a pot of boiling water.  That made the skins easy to remove.  We continued this until seven quart bottles were filled.  She added some vinegar and salt to each bottle, put on the lids and rings and boiled them in a kettle for fifty minutes.  The above photo shows the completed project.  I made some date labels which she put one on each bottle.

I picked some more tomatoes for tomorrow's project.  I also took Jac Stephenson a few tomatoes.

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Lazy Day

I pruned the delicious tomato plants.  There are a lot of tomatoes and makes the whole bunch very heavy.  I pulled a few weeds and watered the whole garden.  I also, picked a few Blue Lake pole beans.  I picked the rest of the corn.  About eight ears.  

The beautiful geraniums in the kidney looks so good from a distance.

The removal of the hydrant makes this spot better.  

We waited all morning for Nyleen and Miles Batty.  They were coming today, but were unable to come.

These are hemp plants.  The weeds have gotten so tall that they nearly hide the hemp.

I watered the hemp plants in the shade house.  I don't know when they were last watered.

Here is the hydrant the was removed a couple of days ago.

We are going to the Manti Temple early in the morning.  I drove to Fillmore this evening to get some gas.  I didn't need much.  The prices seem to go up every day.

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Dug up Water Pipe

I went out to the garden and saw a deer that jumped of the fence into Harvey Gates' field.  I looked around the garden to see how the plants were doing.  John Dennis was coming at twelve to find the water line between the house and the green houses.  He came at 11:30 and started to dig.  I turned off the water at east water meter.

When John got here I turned off the water meter north of our house.  

He set up his tractor and begin to dig.  He dug for an half hour on both sides of the valve.  Finally he hit a pipe.  We needed some PVC pipe pieces.  John called Mike Blazard for some help.  He came over and it was decided that we needed two one inch caps to shut of the water that went in both directions.  He drove to Fillmore and got them at Roper's. 

Here is the bottom of the hole.

Here is one of the caps.  The other one is at the right bottom corner.

Tonight I picked three buckets of tomatoes.  There were more than tomatoes than I expected.  

Later I went out and found four other large tomato plants and picked a few more. 

I also picked a handful of Blue Lake Pole beans in the hoop bean house.

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Froze Sweet Corn

 After breakfast I picked the corn.  We set down on the chairs on the lawn where we shucked the corn.  Carol cut off the kernels   

The bucket of corn.  there was more than I thought that there would be.

and suggested that I mow the lawn.  I plugged up the shoot with the first load.

The lawn is finished.

I dug out all of the weeds in this row of bush beans.

Some animal dug up this sweet corn.  I think that it was a skunk.

I turned on the water in house six and let it run for six minutes.  Ann Stephenson wanted some Zucchini.  I picked her a bagful.

Adam Remkes and his son fixed the washer.  It wouldn't drain the water.  They were there for about ten minutes.  I gave them a bunch of tomatoes.

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Fourteen Quarts of Veggie Juice

 

Before breakfast this morning we started making veggie juice.  Carol cut off all the blemishes and put them a large pot.  I turned them in to juice with blender.  There were to many tomatoes to put them in one pot so we boiled two pots of tomato for thirty minutes.  

I squeezed out all of the juice in this colander.  This took a little over an hour.  We had enough juice to make fourteen quarts.  Carol boiled two batches.  The cooker would hold only seven quartsl

Here they are on the counter.  They all sealed except one.  We put labels on each with a date.  Each group had to be boiled for fifty minutes. They are now in the pantry.  

Rod, read the meter.  We had gone over our allotted amount. I have to find the water line that provides water for the house.  I dug at low spot in the east lawn and found the water line.  It turned out to be the line that came from the well.  I turned off the water  and discovered it.  Our lawn and garden are irrigated from the well as well as some of the hemp plants.

I cut away the shrubby around a broken water hydrant.  I called a person with a small backhoe to dig it up.

Carol put up three pints of peaches.

We had sweet corn for supper.

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Last Hen Gone

This morning was another early Manti Utah temple trip.  Things went pretty well at the temple.  We stopped in Salina for ice cream.  Carol rolled down the window part way.  Ann handed her the ice cream cone.  For some unknown reason the window would not go back up.  We drove all the way home with an open car window.  Carol fixed a couple of tomato and cheese sandwiches.    I went outside to the hen house.  The hen I put in there last night was gone.  I looked all over, she was not to be found.  I found a spot on the south side of the hen house on the ground were a skunk could go in.

I called the garage about the car.  Brian said to bring it in.  I started up the car and surprise, the window went up.  I called Brian back and told him that the window works.  I went to Maverick to get some gas.  Another surprise.  I couldn't find my credit card.  I came home to get Carol's card.  I thought that I left the card in Salina.  I checked my pants pocket and found the card. 

I then wet back to get some gas.  The first pump would not work.  I checked a couple two other pumps and finally got it to work.   I stopped at the Revere health building to order a prescription.  I then came home.

This evening Carol washed all of the tomatoes.  I shredded the onions, peppers, celery.  It is now ready for veggie juice tomorrow.

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Hen in The Hen House

The first thing after breakfast that I did was to check on the hen that I couldn't get in the chicken run last night.  To my surprise she was in the chicken run.  I immediately shut the little door on the west and the big door on the east.  The hen was eating some of the grain that I put out a couple of days ago.  

I got this photo.  She is the hen that lays blue eggs.

I picked all of the tomatoes.  I got two full buckets.  Most of the tomatoes came from celebrity tomato plants.  A few came from the Moscow tomato plants.

Got these zucchini from four plants.  I took them to the share the produce at the post office.

I dug up all of the spurge weeds and the morning glory, bind weeds, in the sweet potato plants.  I think that there will be a some good sweet potatoes.

I cut the roots of a whole bunch of Mallow weeds growing in the Crenshaw vines.  One nice one is growing.

I picked the blue lake green beans yesterday.  Carol put them in the bottle and put them in the pressure cooker.  There will be more to pick.

Some animal has be killing our chickens.  I put a brace on the nest door to prevent an animal lifting up the door getting a chicken.  I couldn't find the hen tonight.  Later when I came back she was in the garage greenhouse.  I caught her and put her in the hen house and shut the door.

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Church and Devotional in Ephraim, Utah

 I read from the Book of Mormon this morning.  We went to sacrament meeting.  Roger Stevens family were the speakers.  Priesthood and relief society meeting were all so good.  

This is the cover program of the Manti Utah Temple Devotional held this afternoon in Ephraim, Utah.  We left Holden a little after twelve and drove to Ephraim.  There was a lot of traffic going north after we left Scipio.    We were there nearly two hours early, but we were able to enter the Stake house and took a seat on the third row from the front on the north side, I think.  President M Russell Ballard of the quorum of Twelve Apostles.  His main message was the divinity of Jesus Christ.  He told some stories and some of them were pretty funny.  When it was over we were able to quickly exit the building were soon on the high way headed home.

We hadn't eaten since breakfast and Carol prepared a good dinner.  

The hen that was missing yesterday showed up this evening.  I tried to herd into the coop, but she wouldn't herd.  Later this evening I went out to find her, but she couldn't be found anywhere.

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d her into the coop but she wouldn't huerd.

Morning at Bank

I went out to the garden after breakfast.  I looked things over and pulled a few weeds. They are easy to pull out the wet ground.  I dug up a whole bunch of giant alliums.  It took them over to a neighbor.

We drove to Fillmore to meet with Kim at the State Bank of Southern Utah.  Carol's social security check was going to Wells Fargo, and my social security check was going into Carols checking account.  We were there over and hour, but we got it all straighten out.  Kim was a great help. We got a couple of things at the Fillmore Market and then came home.

I picked a couple ears of sweet corn.  I put it in the fridge.  We had it for supper tonight.  It was supper good,

I also picked the cucumbers.  They are coming on pretty fast.  I took them and a zucchini to the post office.

I wanted a picture of the back end of this chicken.  It wouldn't turn around for me.

A dog or some other large animal pulled out all of the the tail feather.

One more photo.

I braced one more tomato cages that was tipping over some.

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Cold Day for August

I did a little work in the garden after breakfast.  Carol and I then went to Fillmore.  We filled the car with gas and then stopped at the Fillmore Market for a few groceries.  We went directly home.   

This morning when I checked on the chickens, the hen in the fuzzy picture above was soaking wet.   It had been out in the rain all night.  There were two hens missing.  The one hen missing showed up a little later.  She was missing all of her tail feathers.   She was some where in the chicken run.  The third hen was gone.  A dog must have gotten in and took her awayl

These feather was in front of the garage greenhouse door.

There are five tomato plants here.  Three of them were tipped over because of the heavy rain and the wind.

I drove three conduit stakes into the ground and the wired the cages to it.  I picked a half bucket of tomatoes.   Carol put them with the ones I picked on Monday.  Carol took off the stems and the tomato cracks.  I smashed them with a hand held blender.  She prepared celery, onions, peppers, and parsley.   I shredded them.   We boiled them for thirty minutes.  I juiced them.

We spent the late morning make veggie juice.  This is our first batch for the season.

When I got up this morning the temperature was seventy-two.  By evening it was seventy-three.

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Rain and More Rain

Quite a night.  It was about midnight when there was thunder and lightning and rain.  I went to sleep and then woke up to more thunder.  I could hear the rain on the roof.  It was a heavy rain.  The lightning was from the west at first and by morning it was coming from the east.  It was way dark when I got up.  I opened the front door and turned on the lights.  I could barely see the rain.

When it was light I got the picture of the rain running off the roof.

This photo shows the water puddling on the ground.  I could of filled several fifty-five gallon drums several times.

The rain made a small pond of water.

The weight of the rain caused three of the tomato cages to tip over.

This one zucchini plant was weighted down by the rain.

Hemp plants in the south west corner of our yard.

More hemp plants, but in the south east corner of our yard.

Hemp plants in house one.   Some are tipped over by the weight of the water.

Max Wood a neighbor from across town, gave us some blackberries.

We juiced them with a steamer.  We got seven half pints of blackberry jelly.

The rain had caused more bark to peel off the dead maple tree.  It was full of yellow jackets hiding between the bark and the wood.  I sprayed the with WD-40.  It kills them dead.

Carol wanted me to move the light which has four solar cells in the top of it.  I got the large stepladder.  It was not tall enough.  I got the ladder that was fully extended  which was in the east end of the cold frame.  It was a little hard to calapse it.  I then carried to the front yard leaned against the west pillar.  I climbed up and drilled a small hole and then drove in a screw.  I could then hang the light on the screw.

 Most of the dahlias had tipped over.  I drove in some stake to give them support.  I tied them to the stakes.  

The hibiscus plant was nearly down to the ground.  It straightened up pretty good after it dried out some.  It began to rain some move this evening.

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