Cold - Freezing - Card Labels

Freezing temperatures all day.  It was a little warmer toward the early afternoon.  There was a lot of ice build up during the last 24 hours.

Carol is getting ready to mail Christmas cards. There are people on our label list that have moved and some have passed away.  I changed some and am waiting to hear from others concerning the addresses.

Later in the morning, I inspected the damage from the wind Sunday.  I worked out there for over an hour.  I pulled the poly back over the hoops.  A stepladder helped in reaching the higher places.  I was able to get most of it back in the right place.  Below is the south side.

Another photo of the south side looking to the west.  With twine, I tied the poly to concrete blocks. The blocks are hanging to the poly.  The yellow arrows shows where the twine is tied to the poly.

 From inside looking to the south.

 Bellow is the north side.  This part looks pretty normal.

This afternoon I put out more stings of lights.

 I covered the lilac and the forsythia shrubs with the icicle lights.

The Little Leaf Linden tree has an icicle shirt all way around it.  I use wire attached to the branches to hold it up.  It took four strands.

The Day Before the Freeze

Every time I go into house two I am faced with jalapeno peppers that have fallen out of the raised bed onto the ground.  I put off tying them up.  Except today I drove to four foot 1/2 " conduit into the ground.  I tied blue twine between the two conduits.  You see how it looks in the picture.

Made labels for some of the tomatoes in house one.  I attached a theme clip to the overhead wire with a hog tie.  I printed the name of the tomato plant on a sticky label.  Attached it to a card and then fastened it to the theme clip. I made labels of the following tomato plants.

I picked a couple of watermelons and a bunch of Topaz melons.

Below are the plastic tags on the ground which were replaced with a printed tag hanging from the overhead wire.

I am having a perennial plant sale a week from today and tomorrow.  I worked yesterday and today cleaning house two and three.  I removed weeds in house one.  I Sorted all the trays and flats.  The photo below shows the different stacks of trays and flats.

Carol and I went for a little ride.  When we got back we picked a half bushel of tomatoes.  It was cold.  It might freeze tonight.

The second to the last thing for the day is to removed the timers that turn on and off the water for Robert's garden.  I was a lot easier that what I thought.

I was deleting unimportant emails and spam this evening.  I found one email from the mother of a scout who was working on his Eagle project.  She wanted Bitter Brush, Sage Brush, and Curl-leaf Mahogany.  I have the Bitter Brush.

Comments and questions are welcome.