A Lot of Things Today.

It was a strange morning this morning. We drove to the hospital in Fillmore so Carol good receive another treatment.  As we left the freeway we saw the ambulance heading south on I-15.  As we left the freeway, we drove to the hospital.   I let Carol out and she walked into the hospital as I parked the car.  Some men were working on the east side of the hospital.

I walked into the hospital and Carol was already in room one. We waited for a while and discovered that all the doctors and nurses we're busy with accident victims. We waited for nearly an hour and a half. Finally one of the nurses came in and  started the IV.  In 30 minutes Carol  was done. As I went out to get the car  I watched some construction working. I talked to a man about the construction. There was another man cutting chip board.  As I walked watching him work, I stumbled over a barricade and went down to my hands and  knees. I was okay. We got into the car and drove home.  We had a late breakfast.

 This is a picture an apricot branch full of blossoms.  They are likely to freeze tonight.

One of the sweet potatoes has really shot up.  It seems like that happened in less than a week.

I cut it off and put the stem in a new bottle of fresh water.  It should be growing roots in about ten days.

The large pile of ice has nearly disappeared.  There is a little arch where the garden hose was laying.

 This is last years crop of Gambel Oak, Quercus gambelii, there are forty-six cone-tainers.  There are were more last fall, but some have been sold.

 Some of the dahlia plants that I dug up last fall have started to grow.  I started to remove the potting soil, but that was not to easy.

I carried the tub of dahlia tubers out to the end of the driveway.  I dumped out some of the soil

 and picked out some dahlia tubers and planted them.   Most were healthy, with at least one eye.

I dumped the rest on the driveway.  There are a lot of them.  I cut some apart and for some of the others I dug deep holes and planted the whole cluster of tubers as dug up last fall.

There is a small pile of broken tubers that had no eyes.  These went to the compost pile.  I planted most of the single one and those I cut away are in the garage for a couple of day until the cut surface is scabbed over.

 

I turned city water down the sprinkler pipes that go from one end of our yard to the other end.  Last fall I drained the pipes and left hose bibs open.  I had to turn them off.  A small tree died and fell across the part of the well, which made it difficult get to the well.

 I started up the chain saw and cut off branches and cut the small dead tree into small pieces.

 There are two larger trees that need to be cut down and when the wind is blowing from the east.

 There is purple bird poop on the edge of the patio.  Strange, I don't know of any purple fruit that is available to birds at this time of the year.  Blue Berries??

A Couple of days ago, I cut some forsythia branches that were budded heavy.  There are also some red twig dogwood, and pink ,,,,,,,,

Comments and questions are welcome.

Fremont Barberry

Saturday Robert planted three different varieties of Kohlrabi  Robert also cleaned up another row to plant Kohlrabi  in he did some tilling and other things to get it ready.   Carol just talked to her sister and said thatOleah fell and is in the hospital and she may be there a while.  She will be in rehab and therapy.She may have to stay in a rest home.

On the way to Fillmore just east of Mary's house we saw a cat lying on the side of the road which had been hit by a car.  It that looked like one of our cats. On the way home it was still there.  We took the groceries to the house.  I went back and picked up the cat.  I dug a hole and buried it in the garden West all the Elderberry shrub. 

Comments and questions are welcome.

Potatoes are Dug, But Midgets

I picked some tomatoes this morning and took them to the post office.  Over half were gone by evening.

I gathered all of the acorns from the Gambel Oak that is growing near the road.  There are over  acorns.  They are scheduled put in a zip bag with some potting soil and then in the fridge until next spring.  I check on them every month.

Carol started to cut up the onions.  I got the dehydrator ready.  We cut enough onions in to small pieces to fill the dehydrator.

We finished digging the potatoes.  We started Monday and finished today.  Most of them are small, but did find a few bigger ones.

When we finished digging the potatoes, the garden looked like this. The whole thing looked like it was spaded.

It has been a long time since I built something in the shop.  Today I made a stool.  It is about fourteen inches square and fifteen inches high.  I will use it in the garage to reach the things on the top shelves. It took me a couple of hours to make it.  I made a few mistakes.  Will do better on the next one.

Comments and questions are welcome.