Another Trip to the Dump

No good news from Ukraine this morning. 

I got all of these black trays and got them on the cart and pulled them to the back of the driveway.  I backed the car out to the garage and put them in the trunk.  There was one more stack of the trays left in house three.  I put them on the cart and brought them to the car.  There was room in the trunk for one more set.  The rest I put one the floor of the back seat.  

I put all of the in the dumpster.  There are six of seven large black dumpsters.  I found a large carpet piece about a month ago.  Carol didn't like it, so put it in the dumpster.

There are more carrots in the carrot bed.  It was covered with a white piece of poly and two bags of leaves.  I dug carrots all winter and dug the rest of them today.  The poly and leave kept the carrots from freezing.

The poly is rolled up and leaning against the outside west wall.  

I put the carrots in a bucket and went to house five where it was warm.  I put water into the bucket.  It was pretty hot and the hose was filled with hot water because of the hot house was hot. 

I washed the carrots and put them in another bucket.   I did it in the greenhouse.  I didn't want all of the dirt in the kitchen sink.  

I washed of the rest of the dirt in the sink.

I put the carrots in a one gallon zip bag, but there was too many carrots for the large bag.  I took some out and put them in a quart bag.  I then but them in the left bottom drawer.

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Dermatologist

Last night we had omelets..  Carol cooked all of the components of omelet. There were a few things left over.  I put all of the parts in the bowel and stirred. I put in two eggs and made one omelet.  I then cut it in half.  Carol got one half and I ate the other one.

I did this pumpkin yester day.

This one was done this morning.  I left out all of my tools from last night.  This was the last one and I did it before lunch this morning.  I used my jigsaw to cut off the lid.  The I used three different spade bits for the eyes and mouth.  I cut the holes with the spade bits and the jigsaw to make the holes bigger.  I finished and took them outside on the front porch.  I took the tools to the garage and put them away.  There was pumpkin parts and dust all over the kitchen.  I clean it all up and swept the floor.

I had an appointment with the dermatologist.   He froze the soars on my face and ears.  I won't need to come back until next year. I got the picture of the Revere Offices.  They have the Halloween atmosphere.  

The is a picture of the burning bush next to the the Revere Health building. They have been pretty this fall.

This afternoon I gathered all of the tomato plants and stacked them on the tomato plant compost pile.  

The carrots have been really good this fall.  I uncovered and dug these beauties.  I washed them and put them in a gallon zip bag.  They are in the fridge.

The three pumpkin on the front porch.  They are pretty.

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Peas & Carrots

We were at the Manti Utah temple this morning as patrons.   It was nearly one when we got home.  I watched a little TV then went out to the garden;  I dug up all of the carrots yesterday.  I planted more carrots in the same bed as the carrots last year.

I looked all over for the rake.  I found it in house five.  I smoothed the raised bed.

I planted the seeds directly out of the package.  That went pretty good.  Then with the broom rake, I raked again that would cover some of the seeds with soil.

I got the square nosed shovel to pat the soil against the seeds.  I quickly built a tool.  It was easy to pat the soil against the seeds.  It has been my experience that seeds germination is improved if the is firm around the seeds.

Here it is finished.

The peas that I planted last October did not do well.  A few germinated.  The rest rotted or were covered with to much soil.   I took a stirrup hoe and tilled the row several times.

I pulled the soil from the bottom of the row with a hoe and the with a rake.  I used a pointed row hoe and made the row a little deeper.

I planted the Green Arrow seeds quite thick.  I then would plant some and cover them before I moved up the row to plant some more.  I did all of this on my hands and knees.  Then I started to pat down the soil as I moved up the row,  

I then wen back and finished patting down the soil.

Here it all finished.  Waiting for some rain or snow to give it a good watering.


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Completed One Thing After Another

Watched the new, had breakfast, and went to work.

Yesterday, when I let the chickens out of the hen house, there was a lot of water running.  The above picture is pretty fuzzy, but there was a breach in the pipe in the center and a little bit to the left.  I shut off the water and  started to dig up the pipe.  I had to bail out a lot of water, but finally got it.

I dug up the pipe and pulled it loose.  Inside the ell there is a white PVC that brings the water from house four.  It is a pretty muddy mess.  I washed the two ends that will be joined together.  I went to work on another project to let it dry up.

Last week I covered the carrots with black folded weed barrier.  This morning I began building a poly cover.

The above photo shows the completed project.  Under the poly is the black weed barrier, and under that are the carrots.  They will be protected from and freezing this winter.

I made weights out of several 2x4's that were nearly seven feet long.  There are two pieces on each side.  The poly is put between the two pieces and held together by screws.  

There were two conduit pipes that were two tall.  One on each side.  I pulled the up and cut off about twelve inches.  I then drove them into the ground so the top was a little bit below the to of the raised bed.  The poly easily covers the weed barrier s show in the photo at the beginning of this section.  

Back to the chicken run and the water pipe.  It was pretty dry.  I applied cement two each end of the pipe, pushed them together, and twisted a little so the hose bib was pointed up.  I was going to turn on the water tonight but forgot.

I cut down the rest of the corn on this row which was frozen several weeks ago..  I put it on a compost pile north of the north garden.

 I found four ears of corn that looked like they might be good eating.  I got a picture of only one.  I ate one for lunch which tasted pretty good.  There is a possibility of  a late planting of corn that matures and then there is a frost the kills the corn.  It could it stay in the garden and few ears could be picked each day for dinner.

I stacked these tree baskets on a piece of plywood.

I am considering making a lean to greenhouse either on the west side of the garage or the south end of the garage.

I have five fifty-five gallon barrels that could be filled with water and place inside of the greenhouse to help keep the green house warm during the winter.  A bench would  be on top of the barrels.

Five upright barrels side to side in straight line would require a greenhouse fifteen feet wide.

The above photo is at the south end of the garage.  If the greenhouse were place here there could be three barrels on the west side and two barrels on the east side.  Benches could be on top of the barrels.

Now to house six.  The elder berry shrub was cut down several weeks ago.  It took me a couple of hours to remove all of the branches and leaves.

I started picking up a couple of branches and carried them to house five.  Instead, I got the tarp and filled it with branches and leaves and drug it to the shredder.  It took several trips.  I made several trips with the wheel barrow full of leaves and short stems.

I cut off all the branches almost to the ground.  Then I painted the stems with round-up.

I cut the large trunks that were on the out side.  I also painted them with round-up.

I cleaned up all the stems and leaves and put the bench on four blocks.


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Hard Work,But Someone Has to do It.

This morning I began work in house one.

Yesterday there were still a lot of tomato plants hanging on the second row to the right.  It was quite cool this morning so I put on a medium weight coat.  I removed all the tomatoes in the second row.

We, Carol and I, removing the stems of the perennials.  We laid them on this tarp to hall them out to the garden.  

There are a lot of pruning at the garden west of the driveway.

Carol cut off the tops off the dahlias and I dug them up.  There was a lot of dirt in the roots.  They are in the large nursery can.  I put them in the garage.  

We pulled up the zinnias and put them on the tarp.  It was the heaviest tarp load today.  I had to rest about four times before I got it out to the garden.  

This is where I dumped all the frozen plant material.  I will spread it out a little and hope that it will decay some during the winter.

I needed to pick up the drip tamp.  Last year I pulled out the north end of house one and sometimes I pulled in front of house two and three.  

I wrapped the drip tape around the frame that I made.  I help it all together with twine.   The picture is of the second one.  It is wrapped with two rows of drip tape.  There are several splices.

The drip tape is gone.  Next year the vines will be trained to go horizontal.  In a space of twelve feet there will be eight horizontal lines.

I pulled up these carrots which I made soup.  Besides carrots there were peas, onions, and peas.  I put in the left over meat loaf from Sunday.  It tasted really good.


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After the Temple

There is road construction between Gunnison and Salina.  There is one lane open traffic in both direction has to take turns.  Some time the wait is pretty long.  We went around the construction by driving through Axtel.   There is a sign in front of one yard as in the above photo.  The person that lived there is now dead.  He was a collector of all kinds of items.  No one lives there and the family is not selling anything.  Therefore, the sign.

 I picked the cucumbers in house six which filled three buckets.  Some cucumbers are quite large and others are smaller.

After we got home I did the watering.  The plants were okay.

The drain in my tub is plugged with hair.  It takes a while for the water to drain out.  I got some tools and began to take the stopper apart.  I took part of it apart.  There is plastic piece that I could not get off.  I used a 9/16 inch wrench and some pliers.  I broke the plastic piece.  I did get all the hair and gook out.  I need to by replacement parts at the hardware store. 

The radish seed that I planted Saturday morning are beginning to germinate.

It is not often that we see all the cats and kittens together. But here they are.  Three kittens, tiger on the left, Freckles on the right, and the little mother cat at the top which only part of her is showing.

The corn is really growing well.  It is getting tall enough to be blown over by a hard wind.  I drive in conduit post and string some twine to hold them.  Not finished.

I planted some carrot seed in the raised bed.  I ran the sprinkler for an hour or so to wet them.



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