Peaches and Jam

I picked the peaches last night.  This morning we started the canning process.  Carol  put some in boiling water for a minute or so.  Then we started to peel.

Carol filled four bottles while was still working on the first one.  I changed knives and the work went much faster.

We had thirty-two pint bottles full of peaches.  That was four batches.  

 We drove to Fillmore before lunch.  Carol got a few groceries.  I bought the light fixture which is shown in the above photo.  I turned off the power and then removed the old fixture.  It has been flickering which was somewhat annoying.  I read the directions to make sure it did it right.  It was easily removed.  Putting the new one was difficult.  I worked on it for over an hour.  I finished and turned the power back on and it worked.

With the peaches left over we made six pints of peach jam.

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Tuesday - Short Day

 A lot of rocks on the driveway.  Left there by pushing snow this winter.

 I prepared the mash feeder for the little chicks.

 I hung it from a hook in the 2x4 in the ceiling.

 I put the water on a base made.

 I caught the chicks with a small wired hook.

 The chicks are put in the hen house.  They are beginning to be come accustom to their new home.

I put up a frost protection fabric to stop the wind.



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Quick Trip to Orem

O'leah Peay, Carol's sister -in-law, Gary's wife, is in the Orem hospital.  She had a stroke and is loosing blood.  She seemed to recognize us when we talked to her.  They hope that she can leave the hospital soon and go to a rehabilitation unit, where they can get her on her feet walking again.

The rain was really heavy between Santaquin and Provo.

After our visit with Gary and Oleah, we stopped at the hone of Nyleen and Miles.  After a short visit we went to a Chinese Buffet for lunch.  The food was good, but not many people eating.

We finished eating and drove back to Nyleen and Miles place.  There Miles cut my hair.  A lot of ideas are exchanged at the barber shop and was not different here.  Miles is on the left and I am on the right with the short hair.

I wanted a picture of Carol and Nyleen.  Nyleen is on the left and Carol on the right.

We stopped at Sam's Club and got a few things and bought gas.  We then stopped at the Red Barn where we each got an ice cream cone.  We drove home on the old highway and got on I-15 at the north Nephi exit.

As soon as we got home and unloaded the car I checked with the baby chicks.  All their feed was gone.  I filled it up and an hour or so later I gave them new water.


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Orem and Back

We left Holden a little after nine.  About an hour later were in the Payson Walmart.  I took my drill chuck with me to see if I could find a chuck key.  I did not find any at Walmart.  I got me a some work socks and black socks for church.  We stopped at Costco next and here we got only a couple of things.  We used our $209.00 refund to pay for a couple of things.  Carol put$180.00 into her purse.

In Provo we filled our trunk with things bought at Sam' Club.  Most were supplies, and a little food.  After that I was able to buy the chuck key at Home Depot.  I looked for it while Carol waited for me in the car.  At the tool section I found all kinds of drills but no chuck key.  I passed an employee while returning to the car.  She was in front of drill bits.  I asked her and there were several different sizes of chuck keys.  They were shaped somewhat like a three pointed star.  At the point of each star was a key.  Three in the set.  The smallest one fit my chuck perfectly.  So glad.

On the way to Orem we stopped at the DI where Carol got a bunch of books for the Book Barn in Holden.  A picture is needed here for that.  We had lunch at the In and Out,  Not the way to spell it.  I bought me a pair of garments at the Distribution center in Orem.  We headed for home.  Out last stop was at Costco for gas and a bottle of chocolate candy and forty pounds of bird seed.

At home at five.  The chicks were doing good.  Later I put the chuck back on the drill.  It worked perfectly.

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New Door House Two

Pictures are not clear for some unknown reason.

I worked in the garage most of the afternoon.  I opened the south door.  The quart bottle was full of chicken scratch for the black hen.  She was killed before she had a chance to eat some.  There was a song bird on the ground.  It would fly up and peck at the hole and knock out some wheat and then would eat it off the ground.

Above is the frame for the north door of house two.  I will put poultry netting on it and attach to the door frame that is currently there.  We can have the door open and still keep the cats out.

As soon as we got home from the Manti Temple, I changed clothes and went to house two to see how the chicks were doing.  The heat lamp had broken again.  I put on a new one last night.  I don't know what is causing it to break.  There is reflector on it that directs the heat down.  I could get it to stay on the lamp.  I took it off.  I will check in again in the morning.

I put the wire back on so the chicks would not fly out.  Also, to keep any cats away.

Last night I put more beer out.  One of them had a bunch of little slugs.



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Chicks Doing Good

No picture today.  I took pictures of the new chick and for some reason I can't upload to my computer.  I tried several times to get them to work.

I walked out to house two to see how the chicks were doing.  They were okay but the heat lamp had shattered.  The were pieces of glass in their pen.  I then had to drive to Fillmore the second time today.  At Ropers I bought a lamp and a package of heat lamps that have two heat lamps in the box.  I also bought a pair of hinges for the wire door at the north end of house two.

I made several trips to the house and back for tools and items for the heating lamp.  At dusk, I turned the water back on and went into house two.  The chickens were cuddled together and the lamp.  The furnace is on in house six.

More Snow

The bench is finished.  There may need to make some cosmetic adjustments.

It was snowing some when we got up and it continue light snow until the afternoon.  I made a snow pusher pictured above, which idea came to me during the night.  It is a piece of 3/4 inch plywood twenty four inches long and about seven inches deep.  I made a handle out of an eight foot 2x2.  It was too long and I cut it at and 45 degree angle.  It was too short.  There is another piece in house six which I cut to the right length.  I changed the angle to 30 degrees,  I put a brace next the board and fastened it with screws.  It worked really well.  I cleaned the snow off the driveway and front side walk.  It was way faster than the scoop shovel.

All I needed to do was push the snow.  I used a scoop shovel for a little clean up.

Eric is bringing us some baby chicks in the morning.  I found this old box that used to have a base for oranges of melons.  I was buried in the snow in house five.  I uncovered it with a shovel.  I was going to have it in the garage.

I carried it to house two where it is warmer to let it dry out.  I decided to leave it in house two.  I brought the heating lamp and an extension cord for night time warmth.  The greenhouse temp is set at 40 degrees.  I found the feed tray which was in the garage.  I couldn't find the water bottle.   

Most of the slug traps are catching slugs.  There are two that have not trapped any slugs.  I put a trap in a new place and caught a couple of small slugs during the day.  

A closer look.   It doesn't show the two small slugs.

 The ice work continues to grow.  It freezes all night and all day.

An other angle.




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