Humming Birds

When I got up this morning, I thought that it was the first day of September, but it wasn't. I water the house plants on the first Monday of the month. So that is what I did. I started up the lawn mower. I was going to mow the front lawn, but I ended up mowing the front lawn, the east lawn and the back lawn.

There is two redbud seedlings growing by the front porch. This is one of them.

There is a hummingbird feeding at the left side of the bird feeder.

There are a lot of hummingbirds flying around. Carol made a fresh batch sugar water for the hummingbirds.

Another photo of the feeder.

The freshly mowed lawn.

A tree by the chicken coop. Grape vines growing to the top of it.

A good picture of the hummingbird.

This cactus is blooming.

Some animal took a couple of bites out of this spoiled cucumber. Probably a deer. I went out to the garden to pick sweet corn. The wind was blowing, it was cold and it started to rain. I went back to the house, The wind soon stopped and the rain quit.  I then went out to the garden,

I shucked the corn and put it in the fridge. We will freeze tomorrow.

Sunday

Sometime after breakfast we went to church. The speakers were good. It was the fifth Sunday, so I didn't have make any preparations for the meeting. After the meetings, I watered the plants on the porch. I went out to the garden and watered the topaz melons

I found this large cucumber.

I found a smaller cucumber. I found another topaz melon

Part of the garden turned into a weed patch as shown in the above photo.

This is a new topaz melon that I found the other day.

This is a bigger one.

And this is the biggest one.

Sweet Corn

 

This morning after breakfast I took a box of yellow squash to the post office and pot in "share the harvest" shelf. When I got home, I picked sweet corn. I shucked it. we had Carol's famous soup for lunch. We drove to Fillmore and filled the car with gas. I took my lap to Dan Speakman. He checked it to see if there were any problems. There weren't any, I had him copy the phots that were on my phone to my tablet. He did. Carol was at the market and bought some groceries, after we got home it rained hard for a couple of minutes and then quit.

We froze the corn and put it in the freezer.

Here is a tray of frozen corn,

I picked it and helped Carol cut the corn off the cob.

Here I have the corn in a tote.

Payson Again

We got an early start this morning. We went to the Payson temple. We met some friend for the 9:40 session. After the session we stopped at Wendy's for hamburger sandwiches and drinks. We then stopped at Nephi for ice cream cones. I watered the plants on the front porch. I tried for a long time and then took the state bank in Fillmore. Someone there worked on it for over an hour. They fixed so I could pay my bills. While I was gone Carol made some good soup. I had a bowl of it and a Nutella sandwich. I then got my laptop out and paid two bills.

Two topaz melons. This is the larger one.

This the smaller topaz melon.

I picked a whole bunch of yellow squash.

The peaches and cream sweet corn is really good,

Off to Fillmore

After breakfast I watered the topaz melons. There are two melons. One is much larger than a softball and the other one the size of a tennis ball. I then watered the baskets and tubes. I haven't watered the plants in greenhouse five for some time. I watered the fig plant. some of them had small green figs on them. I went into greenhouse six. Some the fig plants had ripe figs. I ate six or seven figs. They were really sweet. We drove to Fillmore where Carol met with a medical assistant. After the exam he gave her a prescription and some instructions. We got a few groceries and then came home. For some reason I was not able to pay my bills. This afternoon I went to the dermatologist at the Fillmore clinic.  

i still can't pay my bills.

Hot, Hot, Hot

After breakfast this morning, I cleaned the Walla Walla onions. I cut off the tops and put the onions in a bucket, Next, I put the onions in a wooden crate.

This is the crate which helps them dry.

This is the five-gallon bucket.

This a picture of the onions I took a few days ago. I watered the baskets and the plants in the back yard, Then I watered the plants in the garden. We had the left-over spaghetti for lunch. The pomegranate plant is beginning to look healthy.

Monday

After I got up this morning I made a new batch of old fashion oat meat mush. After breakfast I watered the baskets and tubs on the front porch. I watered some of the plants in the garden. I began watering the front lawn east of the sidewalk and the east lawn. I watered the east lawn all day.

Yesterday, I dug up the Walla Walla onions yesterday and cleaned them up today,

This this topaz melon is about the same size as a tennis ball. The melon in the photo below is about the same size as a soft ball. 

Saturday Chores

 

Pretty normal morning except for the TV shows. I turned on channel seven. On Saturday they "how to" shows. I watered the baskets and tubs on the front porch. After breakfast, I began to water the grass in the back yard. I watered all the grass in the back yard and watered most of the grass in the east lawn, No pictures. Carol fixed a batch of spaghetti for supper. 

Richard Came

We drove to Fillmore before lunch and bought a few groceries.  

The hibiscus in the front yard.

Topaz melon in the garden. There is another one on the vine further west.

I fertilized the baskets. Later I watered the baskets and tubes,

A pretty flower on the front porch.

I cut down the weeds in the orchard.

The same weeds but from a different direction.

We made ice cream.

The ice cream is finished. Carol and I ate a large bowl of good ice cream,

Richard came and will be staying with us tomorrow and Sunday.

Temple Again

This morning I watered the baskets and pots on the front porch. As soon as breakfast was over, we drove to the Payson Temple. We on the 9:40 session. Some of the same people the 9:40 session last week. Somebody had some kind of medical emergency. There was an ambulance at the temple. We called Carol's sister Nyleen Batty. We were going to visit her in Linden. She didn't answer. We stopped at Wendy's and got two hamburgers and drinks. We stopped in Nephi for ice cream cones.

This afternoon wheb we got home I watered the baskets and pots on the front porch. I started to water the garden. I took the following photos.

I picked the yellow squash and one zucchini on the right.

I quit watering the cucumber plants because I didn't want to eat any more cucumbers, Carol wanted to continue taking them to the post office. I started watering them again.

I picked some squash. Took a picture and then found some more squash.

This is a photo of two squash that grew together.

The topaz melon is a little bigger each day, Almost the size of a tennis ball.

 

Got Glasses

 

What did I do?

More Squash

I watered the baskets and tubes. I also turned the water on the kidney. The topaz melon continues to grow. There was a lot of squash. 

Here are photos of the squash that I picked this morning. After lunch this afternoon, I shredded a box of garden magazines.

Car Fixed

This morning after breakfast I mowed the lawn. I removed all of the garden hoses that were on the lawns, The lawn mower started right up. I put air in the tires and began to mow. I started on the front lawn and run out of gas while I was on the front driveway, sometime ago, I got a new gas can and filled it with gas. As hard as I tried, I couldn't pour gas in the lawnmower tank. Finally poured in an old container and then poured it into the lawnmower tank. I then mowed the front lawn, the east lawn, and most of the back lawn. Carol came out and reminded me that I was to take the car to Fillmore to get the front right fender fixed. The mechanics fixed it and I didn't cost me anything. I came home and finished mowing the lawn.

I mowed all of the lawns today.

I had a sweet potato for supper.  

The people at the garage the front fender on the right side.

A small topaz melon is in the above photo. It is a little larger than an olive.