Planting bush Beans

 

Right after I showered and dressed I went out side and started the irrigation.  First was the kidney with a sprinkler on both sides.

Spring Cleaning and More

 What a day!  A chapter in the Book of Mormon, breakfast as usual.  And cobwebs in the kitchen window.  Carol wanted me to clean them out.  We removed some of the items in the window to get at the cobwebs.  The hose on the vacuum cleaner wasn't long enough to reach the cobwebs and other debris in the window.   

I remembered that I had this shop vacuum that I used some.  I brought it into the house, I needed to stand in the sink to clean the debris that was in the window.  I got the large stepladder and was able stand in the sink.  Carol held the shop vacuum on the counter.  While I was standing in the sink, I could see spider in other areas of the kitchen.  I got the extension tube for the vacuum and was able to suck all of the spiders.  I got more above the fridge. There were more above my bedroom door.   I got them.  I found more spiders in other areas of the family room.

Provo Temple

This morning after breakfast I watered the plants in front of our house.  I watered the tomato and pepper plants in the south garden. 

It was around 8:15 when we left Holden headed for the Provo temple.  We were there plenty early.  There were a couple sprinkle times.  Carol's, nephew Chris Peay is and ordnance worker at the Provo temple.  I was able to have a short visit with him.  One the way home we stopped a Walmart where we got three items.  Cat food, soap for the washing machine, and toilet paper.   There were a lot of cars lined up to get gas.  We went to Costco for gas.  The lines were short.  We got gas and stopped at Wendy's in Payson for lunch.  After we ate our lunch, we got ice cream cones at the Red Barn.  We then came home.  I watered the plants in front of our yard.  

Instead of carrying a bucket of water to water the dracaena.  I hooked up a hose to the hose bibb by the house.  It took me quite a while to do it.  I was able quickly water it.  The photo is from yesterday.

The light from the ceiling fan is burnt out.  The stepladder was in the garden.  It was pretty dirty, and I couldn't take it into the house like that.  I washed it off on the front lawn and let it dry on the driveway.  I took it into the house and put it under the fan.  I removed the old bulb.  I couldn't get then new bulb to go in.  I tried and tried and tried some more.  I tried doing with my left hand and couldn't.  The last time I tried I got off the ladder and turned on the switch.  Success.

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Irrigation

I finished breakfast and then went up to the head ditch.  I put the gate in the head ditch which sent the water to our yard.  I cleaned the weed out of the ditch and then checked at our yard.

Sacrament & Priesthood Mtg

I watered both rows of corn before breakfast.  The transplanted corn and the seeded corn.  I set the timer for sixteen minutes.  It was finished when the timer went off.   We had breakfast and then went to church.  The last speaker at sacrament the meeting gave a very a good talk.  I had a hard time understanding the priesthood meeting teacher.  There was some discussion and there was fifteen minutes left when he quit.  After lunch I got a call from Chuck Tracy, the water master, informing us that we have a water turn at seven in the morning.  I got my weed eater and went to the head ditch to cut the weeds in the ditch.  The whip string came off.  I went back home and put in a new string.  I then went back to the ditch and cut weed in that section of the ditch.

The above photo shows the bottom of the ditch which I cleaned.  I came back to clean the sides of the ditch and the weed eater battery died.   I took the dracaena plant which we call our palm tree out of house five.  I had to drag it out.  It was way too hot in there.  It is the picture below.

This evening I put out some of the pipes for tomorrow.

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New Blower

This morning I picked the peas.  I had been picking every day and got a small bunch.  I then skipped a day.  Then the next morning it had rained, so I waited one more day.  I picked both sides and nearly filled this bucket. 

Carol washed them.  She then began the shelling of the peas.   I started shelling she suggested that I do some work in the garden.  Carol blanched the peas, put the peas on a tray and put them in the freezer.  Later, we filled a zip freezer bag with the peas.   I watered, dug weeds, watered and dug some more.  Early this morning I started watering the east lawn.  I moved the hose about every forty-five minutes.  I watered the front lawn and geraniums with the other hose.

This afternoon there was a package on the front step.  It was the blower.  I took it out of the box and attached the blower tube and blew off all junk on the patio.  Later I put all of the cushion on the patio chairs.

This photo shows a clean patio with chairs and their cushions and the blower.

I removed all the soil from the raised bed and put it on some black plastic.  I am going to put black plastic on the bottom of the frame.  It is black on the bottom side and white on the top side.  This should stop all morning glory from growing in the raised bed.

Here is the bed soil on the black plastic.

It has been hot all afternoon.  I found a shady spot under a pine tree and grape vines.  I dog out all of the weeds.

A photo of the water running down the row of watermelon plants.

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Mowed

Breakfast as usual.  It had rained some during the night.  The lawn was still wet.  I watered the plants in house five. 

I watered the burpless cucumbers.  A couple of them are getting the first true leaf.  Seven seeds have germinated so far.  I gave our extra tomato, crimson sweet watermelon and our topaz melons to Adam Remkes.

The lawn had dried of some, therefore I started mowing.  I usually set the mower height at 2 1/2 inches.  It always looked scalped.  This morning I set the mower height at three inches.  By twelve I was finished.  I had the other half of the hamburger that was left over from yesterday.  It was still good.

This is the backyard after mowing.  It mostly shady.

The front lawn really looks good.  I filled the bags twice.   After lunch I pulled and dug the weeds in the kidney.  With my weed eater, I trimmed all of the spots I missed with the lawnmower.

There were a lot of small weeds.  I watered the geraniums under Carol's bedroom window and then watered parts of the front lawn.

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Hail

As soon as breakfast was over, I picked the peas.  I started on the south side and then did the north side.  I got a nice batch of peas, but not as many as yesterday.  I watered the peas this afternoon hoping that it will help firm the pods. 

The Azelia pot is just a little over half full.  Carol washed and shelled them and put them in the on a cooky tray and then put them in the freezer.  We started a new zip bag.  I did a lot of weeding and watering in the garden.  A deputy sheriff knocked on the door.  He was looking for Richard.  We don't know why.  Carol called Richard and he had no idea why they wanted him,   Richard called back later.  It may be he was driving with out insurance on his truck.  Then Richard got his truck insured. 

I planted six hills of zucchini.  I dug the holes, put a handful of horse pellets in the hole, then covered the pellets with soil, then put two zucchini seeds on top of the soil, and then covered the seeds with more soil.  The last step was to irrigate them.    A week or so ago, we got a $20.00 gift certificate from Ray and Maryanne.  I drove to Fillmore and bought supper.  I got a hamburger and fries.  I got Carol a taco salad, a milk shake, and fries.  I ate half of my hamburger and put the other half in the fridge for tomorrow.  Carol ate most of her taco salad.  Some of the fries were left over.

We had rain and hail for about three minutes.  The rainwater run of the roof.  We caught some of the rain in buckets.  We hope that our flowers and vegetables in the garden were not damaged.   

The sidewalk got good and wet.  A half hour later, the sun came out and dried up the rain.  

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Hours in Chair

 Another cool morning.      As soon as breakfast was over, I got a picture of the kidney.

The salvia and geraniums are looking pretty,  I am having a hard time getting a photo that show the bright colors.

I then went to the garden and picked Green Arrow peas.   Carol washed the peas and they are ready to be shelled.

I fertilized the west lawn with the fertilizer that I had left.  I turned on the sprinkler on the north end.

The peas are all shelled and put in a cooky sheet and then into the freezer.

I had a little time after lunch.  I cut down the dried-up foxtail with the weed eater.  I am making a path for the large dracaena plant.  I will bring it to the front lawn.

This photo is west of house four.

Geraniums by the front room window.

Geraniums by Carol's bedroom window.

This tray of peas has been in the freezer.  We are going to put them in zip lock freezer bag.

We todays pea harvest in the same bag as yesterday harvest. The bag is full and is in the freezer in the garage. 

The vines have covered the pathway to the back yard.  I cut them away this afternoon.

I was in a dental chair for nearly two hours this afternoon.  This is the view out the window.  I watched the birds while I waited for the dental procedures.  They made impressions of my teeth.  The dental assistant made three or four impressions.  The dentist then came in and made one.  I then went home.  I talked to Richard Darnel for a few minutes one the way.

I dug up the weeds in the old chicken run.  I haven't had chickens for several years.

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