Irrigating

 

The Water

Saturday morning, I was up fairly early.  I showered, said my prayers, and shaved. I turned on the TV for the morning news.  Carol showered and did her hair.  I fed the cats and started breakfast.  I watched the two wood working TV shows.  After breakfast I opened the west door to greenhouse five.  I watered the plants.  I filled the sprayer with water and round-up. I sprayed the weeds all around the west end house five.  I sprayed in other parts of the yard until the backpack sprayer was empty.

I went to the post office for the mail.  The dental office is south of the post office and have beautiful tulips growing.

Across the street is the Woods Market. Some people are painting the south wall of the store.

While I was spraying weeds there were several grape hyacinths growing.  The largest is in the above photo.

Later in the afternoon asperges plants were ready two harvest. This clump has really done well.  I cut more.

They filled this baking dish full.  I raked up all the leaves in the head ditch.  There were some weeds that I didn't get. I got out the weed eater.  I cut a few weeds, but the battery was dead. I went home put the battery in the charger.  I shut the west doors to house five and gather three eggs.  

Someone rang our doorbell.  He informed me that we had a water turn in the morning.  I put out the pipes to be ready at seven in the morning.

We watched TV until we went to bed.

The Hospital

 Everything this morning was normal.  After breakfast I opened the west door of greenhouse six.  The east door was already open,  

I waited in the imaging office while I waited for Carol.  I waited for about an half hour.  Her MRI was finished.  The above photo is the MRI office.  We stopped at the drug store for some greeting cards.  

The plumb tree is loaded with blooms.   Looks like a good plumb crop this year.  

This afternoon I planted blue lake pole beans on the south side of the hoop.  I planted them and pressed the seeds firmly into the soil.  I then used a garden trowel to cover them with soil.

The seeds were planted quite close together.  We took the house garbage to the dumpsters.

We have a cat named Dusty.  We don't see him very often, but this evening when I feed the cats, Dusty shows up.  

Here is another picture of Dusty.  It was taken through the glass storm door on the back porch.  Carol cooked some leftover potatoes and some asperges.  I gathered three eggs.  I watered all of the plants in house five.  I picked a handful of peas and gave them to Carol.  We watched TV until it was time to go to bed.  

Planting Blue Lake Pole Beans

 

Water Garden

After breakfast we watched the morning channel 44 programs.  During the commercials I would read from the Book of Mormon.  I couldn't find the chapter that listed the dates.  I went to Fillmore to have Dan Speakman check it out.  He worked on it for some time and seemed to have fixed it.  When I got home, I had the same problem.  This afternoon I started to water the onions, peas, and rhubarb. Below is a photo of the watering of rhubarb.

The view above is the flowering pear that is in full bloom.

Above is a close-up of part of the flowering pear.  Tonight, I watered all of the plants in greenhouse five.  After watering I shut the doors.  I then gathered the egg in the hen house.  There were five eggs.  

We watched TV until we went to bed.

Broken Laptop

 

I have lost  all of the dates on Book of Mormon reading.

Creeping Oregon Grapes

 After breakfast we watched channel 44 programs.  I went to the post office to get the mail.  
There were two bills.   A gas bill for the house and a gas bill for greenhouse five. I had a roast beef sandwich for lunch.   After lunch I opened greenhouse five doors. Carol started to put another puzzle together.  

I dug out some of the creeping Oregon grape plants. I worked there for several hours with a shovel, large and small pruners. 

I dug out a lot of the creeping Oregon grape plants. I started digging on the west side of the plants.  It was slow and hard.  I found the digging much easier on the east side. In the center of the plants is a hug root that must go to China.  I sharpened the shovel several times to try to cut through the root.

The white mother hen scracting around for something for the chicks to eat. There has always been a rooster nearby.  The rooster may think that he is protecting her and her two chicks.

I got some nitrogen fertilizer the peas and geraniums.  I have a spoon that holds a pinch of something.  I put a pinch of fertilizer on each plant.

I stopped everything this evening and began cutting asparagus.  Carol cooked part of it for supper.  

We watched TV until it was time to go to bed. 

Cleaning

 I watched some of my morning shows.  I started up the truck and loaded some tools and then went up to the ditch to clean out the weeds;

This is how the ditch looked before I went to work on it with my weed eater.  This is looking north down the ditch. The grass weeds were tall. I got in the ditch and cut the weeds on the west side. When I was finished, I came back cutting on the east side.

These sticker weeds were hard to remove. 

I wash using my weed eater to ccut the weeds in the ditch. I run out of string.  I went home and reloaded the it with new string.  It was hard to load it with new string.  After many tries, I got it loaded. 

The asparagus is beginning to grow.

I planted this daffodil several years ago, One is blooming. I got a picture. Today I watched some of my morning shows.

Sunday

 

I went to choir practice this morning.

Onions Planted

 

More Planting

 

This mother hen was sitting on eight small eggs.  Three eggs hatched.  There was one dead chick and several eggs that didn't hatch.  Robert threw them away.

I got two photos. 

Robert was here.  I wanted him to till a spot in the garden where I could plant the last batch of onions.  He did a row that was next to the other onions that I planted about one month ago.

Robert is planting a row of grape plants between the row of peas and the south wall of house five.  

Robert is using this skill saw to cut off all of the dead wood this pomegranate bush.  

Here it is all off.  The new branches are beginning to grow.

Robert planted a pear tree west of the greenhouse five.

I found some white paint.  Robert left.  I found some white paint.  

Dahlias

 

Typical morning.  It was quite cool.  I opened the doors of greenhouse five and watered the plants.  I also, turned on the sprinklers and sprayed each section for forty-five minutes.  I started on the west end and then moved the hose a little bit to the east.  

This photo shows the sprinkler on the east end of house five. While the sprinkler was on, I would plant dahlias.

There were a few dahlias I cut in half. I used my hand saw.

I would make a hole for the dahlias.  This hole had a huge mallow root.  I hope to paint them with round-up as soon as they have well developed leaves.

An amazing pea vine.  I hope to save the seeds and replant them next spring.