April Fools

I got up several times during the night to use the bathroom.  It looked out the south window.  It looked like there was snow on the backyard lawn.  When I got up this morning, I turned the front porch light on and there was snow.    I had to brush the snow off the dish.  We the got a clear TV signal.  The three picture below illustrates the snow,

The driveway.

Looking north-east from the front porch.  It shows the front of our truck.

The front sidewalk. Most of the snow has melted.  Tonight, I watered the bedding plants greenhouse five and then shut the east doors.

Busy Monday

After breakfast we watched the morning TV shows.  Carol washed the sheets and pillowcases.  After the shows were over we made up the beds.  We then picked up Elisha Bills and took her to the Fillmore Market for groceries.  Carol and I got our groceries and waited for Elisha.  We waited in our car for over one-half hour.  She had her shopping cart filled to the top.  She had three cases of bottled water plus other things.  We took her home and we went home. The weather has been much cooler.  There is a forecast for 32-degree weather.  Carol made supper good soup that we ate for supper.

Transplanting Geraniums

Transplanting geraniums is the major thing that I did day.  I don't have the four-inch pots that I wanted to use.  I found a box full of 1020 trays containing seventy-two cells. The tops trays were bent by the hot sun.  Deeper in the stack were some good trays.  

I sprayed water on the potting soil and mixed it up.  I then filled a 1020 tray with soil.  Then I transplanted the geraniums one plant in each cell.  I worked on that for nearly an hour.

I ended up with 160 plants. Some were really small but most a good size.

Last week Robert transplanted lettuce plants in house five.  They are doing well.  Richard came this afternoon. It is raining.

Time Goes By

Same old thing every morning.  Shower, dress, watch news, breakfast and more TV.  I walked out to greenhouse five.  The bedding plants are really doing well.  I watered most of the plants.

The peach trees in green house six were blooming.  The tree on the west end is pictured above and really loaded with flowers.  We watched the TV show called Doc Martin, As Time Goes By.  

This is the PVC pipe that I brook last fall.  I hope to turn the well on tomorrow.  I need to repair it before I turn on the water.  This evening, we vacuumed the floors and seats of our car.  I also used the blower to blow all of the leaves out of the garage.

Thursday

After breakfast and the morning TV shows we drove to Fillmore.  We stopped at the drugstore.  Carol Bought a bunch of birthday cards for family members who are having birthdays in the next couple weeks.   We stopped at Fillmore feed for lay pellets for our chickens.

We then got a few groceries at the Fillmore Market.

We then went to the LOVE gas station for gas.  This afterboon I watered most of the plants in greenhouse five.

A Great Day at the Temple

We were up early this morning.  We put on our Sunday clothes.  After breakfast we drove to Lindon, Utah.  We picked up Carol's sister, Nyleen and drove to the Mount Timpanogos Temple.  After a nice session we took Nyleen back to her house.  She prepared a sack lunch for us.  

We stopped at the Payson Walmart.  I went into the store.  Last week I had my tablet which doesn't have any color.  It shows only black and white.  The worker there said it was too old and can't be fixed.  There was a different worker.   I found the receipt. The clerk worked on it for about twenty minutes and fixed it. We ate some of the lunch on the way home that Nyleen prepared for us.   It was a little after one when we got home.  We put our Sunday clothes.  I then tried the tablet that was fixed.  It worked well.

This is how the Linden temple looked about a year ago.  I think Lisa took this picture.

Fixing Trellis

This morning Carol went to the Book Barn and returned some books and got some new ones.

I got this picture.  Carol does a lot of reading, and the Book Barn has been handy.  She has read most of the books.  

I worked in the garden, We got a heavy snow storm a while back and the weight of the snow bent the trellis. 

I had to cut off some of the branches on this lilac bush.  Some of the branches were growing through the trellis.  I couldn't remove the first section until if cut off some of the branches.

The five sections are lying on the ground.  The sections were wired together with tie wire. Each end was attached to a 2x6 piece of treated wood.  

This picture is taken on the west end of the garden looking east towards the garage.

The daffodils are pretty.

Busy Monday

Nothing unusual this morning.  I ate the last of the chicken noodles for lunch.  I then went to work in the garden. It was warm.   

I picked small daffodils.  They haven't bloomed.  But should bloom in a couple of days.

I leaned the old tomato plants and put them on the truck.  Normally I would compost them, but these had the white twine and tomato clips.  These are going the landfil where they will burn.

The old tomato vines to be composted.

This is where the tomato plants used to be.

The water running to the chickens was on way too much.  I reached in and turned the tap way down.

There were dead tomato plants hanging on the tomato hooks.  I dug up the plants and put them on the truck. I am going to plant cucumbers.  And have them climb up the twine.  

   

Sunday

Richard was gone when I got up this morning.  Carol and I had breakfast.  Richard came back and said that he was leaving to see Emly and his grandkids, Madalyn turned eight and was going to be baptized in a couple of months. Carol took me to choir practice.  We attended our church meeting.  All were good.  We had a good dinner.  We went to the stake house for the stake music festival.  It was very good.  It was a little after seven when we got home.  We had a late supper.  We watched several TV shows until we went to bed.  

House Five

 I got up, showered, dressed, and shave.  When I went into the family room. Richard was gone.  I fed the cats.  After breakfast we watched some of the morning TV shows.  Robert walked in. Robert, Masin, Dalston, Reese were here.  They went out to greenhouse five.  

Robert is watering the new lattice transplants.

Here is one group of green lettuce transplants.

Here is another group of lettuce transplants.

Robert is transplanting the lettuce plants and Dalston is making holes for the transplants.

Robert is making his own holes with a garden trowel.

Dalston and Mason transplanting into a plug tray.

Reese is watching her mother transplanting.

Dalston filling a plug tray.

Robert fingering the amount of fertilizer to put in the bucket of water.

Maison transplanting. 

Tonight, Richard loaded if four wheeler on his trailer.  We had lasagna for supper.

Richard Came

The morning went as most mornings. We watched the morning news and the TV shows.  Carol called Elisha and told her that we are going to Fillmore to get prescription filled.  She wanted to go.  She drove her car to our place.  She got in our car.  Our first stop was at the drug store.  We then stopped at the Dollar store.  She then went in and bought a large plastic tote.    We then went to the Fillmore Market.  We went ii and bought a few groceries.  We then got in the car and waited and waited for Elisha.  After that we went to the Fillmore feed store, Elisha wanted something for her baby chick. We waited and waited some more for her.  When we got home, we took her stuff and put it in her car.   We were gone for two hours.  The rest of the afternoon went well.  Carol, wondering if Richard was coming, called Richard, He answered and said he was almost here.  He then walked in through the back door.    We had omelets.

We watched the channel eleven movie, Fidler on the Roof.  We then finished off the evening watching some of the show, Rosemary and Tyme.

good day

 

got up early

The Timpanogos Temple

It was getting light this morning when we left Holden this morning.  There was a lot of snow on the ground from yesterday's snowstorm.  It was getting light as we drove out of town.  The car soon warmed up.  The freeway was dry. 

Fresh Snow

Woke up this morning to a whole lot of snow.  I usually turn on the TV to watch the morning news.  There was so much snow on the lawn, I believed that the satellite dish would be cover with snow.  When Carol turned on the TV when she got up, there was a good signal.  I made a batch of old fashion oatmeal mush.  I fed the cats, and we had breakfast.   Later the TV quit, I put on my boots and removed the snow on the dish. 

I got my scoop shovel and made a path to greenhouse five.  The above photo shows the beginning of the path starting from the back porch.  I watered most of the plants in greenhouse five.

About six inches of snow on our driveway.

Looking at the garage and back porch.

This is a photo of the west end of house five.

This a photo of the west end of greenhouse four.

A photo of the dish after I cleaned off the snow.  We got our TV signal back.  It is still snowing some.

This the east side of the house looking north.

From the front porch looking west.

The front porch looking east.  The snow is piled high on the shrubs.  I cleaned the snow off the front sidewalk,  

Looking east from the driveway north of the house.

Transplanting

After breakfast this morning, we watched the morning TV shows.  For lunch we ate frozen TV dinners.  They didn't cost much, and they have been good.  I opened a pint bottle of peaches that we canned last fall.  The peaches from one of our trees.  This afternoon I transplanted cucumber seedlings and then tomato plants.  There was about 21 celebrity plants.  I lost the names on the other plants, so I labeled with a number two through six.  

Tiger our cat climbed a small tree and the jumped on the roof.  By the time I got to the back porch it was down.

It was cold outside but in greenhouse five where I was working it was a comfortable 80 degrees.

The plants at the top of the photo are cucumber plants. There were three of four plants in each pot, I separated them and have one plant each pot.  Tomato plants are in the pots at the bottom of the picture.

More tomato plants.  The pots are in an old cooky sheet.

More tomato plants.  I think these are celebrity.

Three trays with three different varieties of tomato plants.

I took a picture of Robert's berry plant yesterday. I took another picture today which shows clearly the two vine starts.