More Work on the Tiller

The first thing this morning after breakfast was a little bit of news and then a quick check in house two and house six.

These feathers were on the lawn west of the garage and under the Pink Flamingo tree.  

They weren't there the last time I checked last night.  A free range dog had nearly caught one of our hens.  All of our chickens were accounted far.  One of the hens was missing a few tail feather.  They are in the above picture.

Some of the tomato plants are not doing very good.  We have had aphids on the cabbage and kale plants.  Now they are on some of the tomato plants.  I mixed up a batch of Neem oil and sprayed most of the tomato plants on both sides.

Richard worked nearly four hours on the tiller yesterday.  He had a few ideas that would help it to run better.  He worked on it for nearly two hours today.  He bought some rubber tubing and replace the fuel line.  He has removed, cleaned, and put back together and installed.  It is all back together.  The rpm is up and down.  I thought that I would do a little tilling, but didn't get it done.

I had another five flavored berry seed that germinated.  On the left is one that is about ready to shed its seed coat.  The one on the right is the new seed.

I put up two more cow panels this afternoon.  The dados in the 2x6 were in the wrongg place and didn't match those that I did last week.  I held the panel in place with pieces of wood screwed the wood into the 2x6.

I stood the panel on its edge.  I tied some twine on one end and then to the other end and pulled both ends together.  I then moved it next the other three panels put up last year.  

The above photo shows that they didn't match together.

I moved them around a little and lifted one up and removed some of the soil under the 2x6.  I then wired them together with tie wire.

The potatoes are coming up now.  The potatoes in the photo were not covered.  I guess I forgot.  I plan to cover them with compost.  We will see what happens.

Lastly, the pea vines are beginning to bloom.  They are about eighteen inches tall.


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Clean Fridge

I woke up early this morning and a thought came to m mind.  Clean the fridge.  What?  Clean the fridge???  It hasn't been cleaned for some time.  As soon as breakfast was over I began to unload the fridge.  The contents of the fridge was on the table and kitchen counters.

I started by filling the tub with water.  I then marked the location in the of each shelf.  I removed the top shelf and put it in the water.  I did the same for all the other shelves until all were in the tub.  While they were soaking, I washed the fridge.

While the shelves were soaking, I washed the inside of the fridge.  I had to do it several time before it was clean.  

Then I washed and dried the bottom shelf and the two trays.  I put them in the fridge.  I did the same for the next shelf and the rest of them.

I loaded most of the food back into the fridge.  There were some spoiled food items hiding in the back which were badly spoiled.  The fridge looks all most new as pictured above.

I wasn't going to do the door.  Carol, gave me a strong suggestion.   I unloaded the door, cleaned it, and put the food back in the door.  Some didn't go back because of spoilage.  There is room for more things on the door and in the fridge.

I was working on the Ward History when the door bell rang.  There was a package of sandpaper for my orbital sander.  I bought in on Amazon.  I got a lot of sandpaper for way less than I could get it locally.  I tried it out on the base and top of the pedestal that I am making.

We drove to Fillmore for some groceries.  We filled the car with gas and bought a couple of ice cream cones.

We bought a can of beer to try to get control of the slugs and snails that are eating the radishes.  I made a small hole in the soil.  I then put the cat food can in the hole and poured in a little beer.  I will find out in the morning if it did and good.

I put out several blue sticky traps a couple days ago.  It looks like I have some fungus gnats and shore flies.

There aphids on the tomato and pepper plants. This is the same picture but rotated 90 degrees.


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Today & Piano Bench

This morning after the news and some chores I watered in house two.  The plants there are doing pretty good.  However, there is quite and infestation of aphids.  I saw some, I think, tiny predatory wasps.  They will soon get control of the aphids.

I am taking a picture every day.  This is from last night.  I did post anything yesterday.

 Last week I made the top or seat of the piano bench.  Today I started on the rest of the pieces.  I riped the old weathered boards.   Above is one of the two ends.  They are about 1 1/4 inches thick and seven inches wide and 11 1/2 inches tall.

 There are four identical pieces.  One is attached to the top of the end piece which is attached to the top.  The bottom piece rests on the floor.

Standing on its end is the bench top.  The other end piece is on the floor leaning against the bench top.

My thumb tonight



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