Fifth Sunday

Before breakfast, I watered the baskets and some of the plants.  We then had the usual breakfast this morning.  I made some tapioca pudding which we had for dinner. It takes me about fifteen minutes to make it.

Later this morning went to church.  Sacrament meeting went well.  After that was the fifth Sunday program.  The topic, questions, and video were supplied by the church.  We were encouraged to be missionaries.  There were different missionary opportunities, depending on your age.  It was very good, we had baked potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, bottled green beans, and tapioca pudding.  After dinner, I took two pictures of a blooming dahlia that was growing in the kidney.

It is the dahlia, but at a different angle.  It is difficult to tell any difference.

We watched channel eleven, which is the BYU channel.  The programing is about the scriptures and service.   

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Weeding Again?

 30 July 2022 which was yesterday.

After breakfast I watered the hanging baskets and then the geraniums.  I did some weeding in the hoop house.  I weeded the weeds in the climbing beans some a couple of days ago.  

The above photo show as of the weeds.  Mostly red root and spurge and    .  I run water down the row which made it much easier to pull the weeds.  I pulled and dug other weeds.  Mostly in the celebrity tomatoes.

The dark green zucchinis are coming up.  

I spent most of the afternoon looking at photos on the computer in the little bedroom.  I found the photos of the wedding of Eric, our son, and April his wife.  I finally figured out how to download them to a thumb drive.  There are nearly forty photos.  Eric passed away two years ago.  I think April would like them.

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Payson Temple

After having breakfast this morning, I watered all of the outside plants.  I wanted to get it all done before we drove to Payson.  We scheduled the 10:40 session.  We were in the chapel about ten where we waited for the session to start.  There were thirteen brethren on that session and about twice that many sisters.  After the session we stopped at the nearby Wal-Mart where we bought some things that we needed.  We bought gas at Nephi and then drove the rest of the way home.  After lunch I took my laptop to Fillmore to have it fixed.  Dan worked on it awhile and I was more confused after he finished. 

This was a test photo.  I just found the photo.  This is a photo of part of Dan's office.

I bought a few things at the Fillmore Market and then came home.

I took a few pictures after I got home.

The bush bean plants.

The chickens.

One more picture of the kittens.

Chickens Leaving the Coop

I watered most of the front yard plants this morning.   I was digging weeds and found the container that had the dark black zucchini seeds.  I put the yellow crookneck seeds in the right packet and then the larger seeds which were black zucchini seeds in the other packet.

I filed the seeds away for next year.  I watered most of the plants in the south garden.

A tall wild lettuce plant was growing in the middle of an asparagus plant.  I couldn't find the base of it to dig it out.  I run water on it for quite a while, then I was able to pull it out.

There was a lot of quack grass and other weedy grass growing at the end on a row of corn.  It was pretty wet, and I was able to dig it out.  I left it in a pile between the two rows of corn.  Some of the chickens are flying out of the chicken run.  Some are the west side.  I caught one and put it in the run.  I don't know what the others are going to do.  I dug a lot of weeds in the pole beans.  The weeds just keep growing.  

A lady on Face Book wanted some information about the Desert Willow.  I took the above photo of the plant and the two following photos of the flowers.  The flowers are almost gone.

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Lynn Pinegar Funeral

 

My alarm light came on a 5:15 this morning.  I got right up showered, prayed, and shaved.  I then read from the Book of Mormon.  I have not been getting up early enough to do my scripture study.  I had to catch a hen which didn't make it into the chicken run.  I usually have a boiled egg for breakfast.  This morning I ate a scrambled egg with a touch of catchup.  It really tasted good to me and was easy to eat without my teeth.  Later I put on my new suit, and we headed for Salt Lake City for the funeral.  Robert gave Carol the directions.  It was pretty scary once we were north of Provo.  The traffic was pretty heavy, and we had to be pretty alert to be in the correct lane.   It took us two hours to get there.  We saw the church but drove right on passed.  We took a side road to the right to find a place to turn around.  We traced our way back and drove into the parking lot on the east side of the church.   We were an hour early.  We parked in a shade and then went in. 

A picture of the front of the chapel.  

We bought a lot of supplies at Sam' Club.

Be bought ice cream the Red Barn

It was five when we got home

Corn Secured

After breakfast, I checked the chickens.  There is one hen on the outside of the chicken run.  I quickly cot her and put her back in the chicken run.  I also started some water running into a black water container.  It was a just a tiny drip, but it will supply fresh water until the fall.

I had twine on both sides of the row.  I drove in conduit stakes.  The twine is attached to the stakes and the ends were tied to a large nail which I pounded into the ground.  I then let the water run down the row for a couple of hours.   

I planted the black zucchini and yellow crook neck squash.  Four hills of the crook neck squash and three hills of the black zucchini squash.

It has been too hot to work outside for very long.

Cucumbers Planted

I started the morning watering the geraniums.  I then started the water the front and east lawns.  Some of the chickens did not make it into the chicken run.  I was able to catch them and put them in the chicken run.   

After breakfast I planted the burpless cucumbers in the south garden.   I ran the water down the row to give them a good drink.  They wilted some in the afternoon and I gave them another drink.

An example of the male flower.  Most of them have one or more flowers.

Lisa ordered zucchini and yellow crook neck summer squash seeds.   She called wondering if the seeds were here.  I opened the front door.  They were there.  Above is the photo of the seed packets.

Chickens Found

 

Strange Chicken

When I got up this morning, I did my usual activities.  As soon as it was light, I started watering.  I wanted to know how the chickens made it through the night.  

Most of the chickens were on the roof of the hen house.  There were a couple of them in the hen house.  I think that one of the cats must have scared them which caused them to fly on the roof.   I caught one of them and put it in the chicken run.  There were two trying to get down.  Later they also got down.

I was able to grab the chicken that was getting off the corner of the roof.

We gave them a dish of frozen apricots.  The drank the juice in the dish.

I was collecting seeds from this rock daisy.  In the middle of it there was a green praying mantis.

I got a lot of the tiny black seeds.  

Robert suggested that I cover the access to the nest to keep the chickens from pooping in the nesting area.  

I shut the door to the hen house and blocked with a cement block.

The sweet corn is starting to tip over.  I use the bailing twin to keep the corn from blowing over.  The twine was tied up in knots.  I worked on it for over an hour and wrapped it around a board.

It was getting dark, about 9:30, I went out to check on the chickens.  They were not roosting in the hen house.  They weren't in the duck house.  I thought that I heard a chicken chirp.  I looked all over for them.  The top of the garage.  The top of the hen house.  I think that all of them flew up in the trees.  We will find out in the morning.

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Ready for Cucumbers

I started to water the lawns before breakfast. 

The chickens were locked up for their first night.  This morning I let them out of the hen house.  I didn't take them long to get into the chicken run.  The first thing they did was eating the grape leaves. 

They were all around the chicken run scratching around and what looked like they were tasting things on the ground.

Another photo of the same thing.

A couple of days ago, I removed all of the soil in this raised bed.  I put the soil east of the bed and some on the lawn.  This morning I cleaned it out and then moved the frames.  After a little more cleaning I laid down some black plastic.  It looked like it might be too small.  I looked at the black plastic in house three.  There wasn't a piece the right size.  I went back to the raised bed and used the piece that I had.  I laid it down and put the frame on top of it.  I then shoveled all of the soil back in which looks like the photo above.   I put the sprinkler next to it and turned on the water.  I let it run for over an hour.

I began working on a trellis for the burpless cucumbers.  I first dug a furrow so I could water all of the plants.  I filled it full of water.  Later in the day I made a pair of 2x2 poles about nine feet tall.

I attached some plywood strips to each side.  You will notice why a little later.  I drove two tee posts near each end of the furrow.  The above photo shows what I did.

I put the black pipe on top.  I will trellis the cucumbers to that pipe.

I wired the posts with tie wire in several locations to hold them secure.

The side pieces of plywood keep the black pipe from falling off.

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