June One

After breakfast, I watered the baskets and tubs and put the sprinkler on the kidney.

I also watered the plants on the cart and the patio.  I then drug the hose into house five and watered the potato plants.  They are looking pretty bad.  I should have planted the potatoes deeper in the bags.  I filled the bags with potting soil and put three potatoes on top of the soil in each bag and then covered them with additional potting soil.

Carol needed some cash.  We drove to Fillmore.  We stopped at State Bank for the cash.  I needed to pay our bill at Roper's.  We stopped there.  We then stopped at the Fillmore Market for some groceries.  We then came home

We went to the cemetery and watered the mum on Serie's head stone.  There is a beautiful old fashion yellow rose bush.  The flowers are fading away but it is still pretty.

A couple days ago I bought a pair of overalls; they were way to long.  She cut four inches off the plant legs.  They were still to long.  I folded the the bottoms and wore them all day.  Carol  washed my them.  overalls

I planted the carrots yesterday and covered them with burlap.  I can water them without washing the seeds away.  I decided to mow the lawns this afternoon.  First, I did much of the trimming with my cordless weed eater.  Next I added oil to the lawnmower,  Then put gas in the tank, and last put air in one of the tires.

I put the clippings on a bare piece of ground which I weeded yesterday.

I mowed the lawns and dumped the grass in different places in the garden.  One place was the compost pile.  I dumped four times.

This is the front lawn after I finished.  It looks really good.

The Agave parryi has a bud at the top.  It looks like there may be some pups directly under the bud.  Right now I think that they will fall off and start a new agave.

The kittens were laying together.  I got the picture from the back porch.   It is a little fuzzy.

Tonight night I put out some bait for earwigs in the beans.  I checked it at 9:35 and didn't see any.

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Water Turn In the Morning

We got a call from Chuck, the water master, last night that we will have a water turn in the morning.  I spent much of the day getting ready/  Cleaning the ditch and setting out the pipes.

It is really to get a good picture of our two hens together.  I throw out some hen scratch, but threw it to far away/

First job this morning was to clean the ditch.  I took my cordless weed whip and went after the weeds and grass.  Some of the grass came up to my waste.  I  went all the way.  I love that Ryobi cordless weed eater.  While I was doing the grass by the house the battery died.  I put it on the charger.

I mowed the lawn.  This was the first load to dump.  I dumped it on the compost pile.  I dumped other loads where it did it last year to control some of the weeds.

The Fremont Barberry is in full bloom.  It smells so good.

There were a couple of small trees growing against the west wall of the garage.  I cut them off and applied undiluted  Killzall to the fresh cut.

After finishing the mowing of the lawn I applied fertilizer.  I did the front lawn and then the east lawn and part of the back lawn.  I ran out of fertilizer.  I drove to Fillmore to get a prescription and some fertilizer.  I got the prescription first and then was going to drive back to the Fillmore feed store.  But instead of doing that I went into Roper's.  They had twenty pound bags of ammonia sulfate.  I got a bag and then came home.  I finished the back lawn and then did the lawn west of the garage.  I brought over the tiller and tilled a spot for the sweet corn.  I hope to plant it tomorrow.

Carol made cookies  yesterday.  I took some over to Carla Collins who lives is in the house across the street north of us.

Carol finished the puzzle of cats and dogs.  The photo is fuzzy.

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Mowing Lawn

 Results of the election were on TV all day long.  It looks as if Joe Biden will become the next president of USA.  We drove to Fillmore to deposit a check and make a house payment.   We also bought some groceries. 

There are three strips of weed barrier fabric.  They were used to protect the Blue Lake bush beans from being eaten by deer that visited our garden every night.  I folded them up and will use them again next spring.

This afternoon I mowed the lawn.  There was a little grass cut and the rest was leaves.  It didn't take long to fill the bags with leaves.  I dumped the grass and dumped quite a few more times.  This may be the last time I mow the lawn this year.  There are still a lot of leave hanging on the trees.  We are expecting snow the first of next week.

It was really dusty because of the the dry leaves and dry ground.  I parked the mower on the driveway and blew off all the dust.  Some grass clippings were wedged on the deck of the mower.  By the time I was finished the driveway was covered with grass dust and and dry grass clippings.  The above photo is the lawnmower in the shed.

A photo looking east on the back lawn.

This is looking east on the front lawn.

This is looking south on the east lawn.

The compost pile on the south side of the north garden.

Last, I ate to ears of corn that I picked nearly two months ago.  It tasted like it was picked this morning.

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Servicing the Lawn Mower

The trailing sprinkler finished with a little help from me and watered the west lawn.

Mowing the lawn was the number one thing that I wanted to do today.  I bought the lawn mower a in April two years ago.  I haven't ever changed the oil.  Each time when get the lawn mower out to mow the lawn, I think something like this: I will change the oil next time I mow.  Today, I decided to change the oil, replace oil filter, and clean the air filter. 

I looked at the manual and there were no instructions how to drain the oil and how much oil to add.  I went to You Tube, which is my fix it source.  I found one video that was quite long. But it showed me the exact things to do.  I watched short segments of it several time.  I pulled of the plug and put on a clear twelve inch hose.  I then had to turn the yellow valve counter clock wise one quarter turn.   The black oil began to run out.  I needed a pipe wrench to remove the oil filter.

We went to Fillmore to buy a filter and buy some groceries.  The auto parts store didn't have one.  So we got some gas and went to Penny's to buy the filter.

It was time for lunch so I didn't get much done on the lawn mower.  I put some gasoline in the add oil spout which washed out the old black oil.  I added the two quarts of new oil and tightened up the oil filter and the yellow valve.  I started to mow.  I checked for leaks.  It was leaking oil because I failed to tighten the yellow valve.  I tightened it up and mowed the front lawn and part of the back lawn.

I was having a hard time mowing around the honey suckle bush.  I stopped, and cut off a lot of branches with my electric chain saw.  I pulled all of the branches out to the street where I will put them on my truck.

I mowed the rest of the lawn, then the back lawn and then the west lawn.  I dumped the bags twice.  I did some trimming with my cordless trimmer.

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Mowed the Lawn

Saturday morning and I missed my working with wood show.  There was a rain forecast for eleven.  I wanted to get the lawns mowed.  I took the cushions off the patio furniture and put them in the garage.    I moved the garden hoses and started to mow.  The grass was not as tall this time as it was the last time I mowed.   I didn't do any weed eating, because it is broke.

It took me nearly two hours to finish..  I dumped the grass clippings on my compost pile.   There was no rain and the weather most of the time was cool.  I did some weeding. 

I cut these orange foxtail lilies.  Carol put them in a vase.  I want to dig this up this fall and divide them.

I watered the plants in the raised beds and pulled these carrots.  They are about four inches long.  We will be picking peas in the morning for dinner.

This afternoon I was weeding around the grape plants and discovered two more grape plants that I thought were dead.

They are pretty small, but should be pretty big by the end of the summer.

The pipes on the cart were laying on the ground west of house four.  I loaded them on the cart and brought near the shed to store them.

Jim and Carol Masner are moving.  Carol made some brownies for them as they travel.  We gave them the brownies,  I wanted to get some pictures before they go.   Jim and I are waiting for the Carols, the girls.

Here is the picture.

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Rain & Mowing

It rained off and on much of the morning.  I got my seeds and went to house two.  I went through the seeds and took out the ones I needed.  I planted half tray of Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower, and Brussel sprouts.    I also planted a trays of burpless cucumbers.  Next I planted Black Beauty eggplants, and some seeds from the eggplants that we had in house one.   The last planted was 105 bunching onions.

Speaking of bunching onions, some animals, most likely a dog, walked through the transplanted onions.  I left some large foot prints in bed one.  The prints of its paws went deep in the soft soil.

I cleaned the fertilizer tank.  I dump the full  bag of Peter's fertilizer in the tank.  That was yesterday.  I took the picture this morning which showed how much fertilize was used last yesterday evening.  If I did that everyday, the tank would be empty within a week.

I put the seeded trays in this small wading pool.  The water soaked up all was very wet.

It stopped raining and after lunch I loaded four large Golden Current plants  in the truck and drove to Alisha's house to plant in her yard.  It took an hour to dig four holes and put in the plants.  The above photo shows Alisha by the last plant planted.

Before I started mowing I started my chain saw and cut a branch off the tree.  It was in the way of my mowing.  I also cut a couple of branches off the Dawn Redwood tree.

I mowed the lawn which nearly two hours.  While I was mowing Wade Lemon, our neighbor, came over.  He wanted about twenty-five #five  nursery cans.  He loaded them on his truck.  He cut a large circle out of the bottom of the nursery can.  He  is going to use them for tomato plants.

I put the clippings around the tomato plants in house six.


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Mower & Tall Grass

We went to Fillmore this morning for some groceries, to get a lawnmower and to make a deposit.

Yesterday, I started making a box for my seeds. I used glue and my nail gun which made it much easier to build.  It has been difficult to keep track of the seeds and move them from the house to the greenhouses and back.  I put all the tomato seeds in one place.  All the leafy seeds in one place, etc.

For lunch I made me a salad.  Everything in the salad is from our garden except the raisons.  I put in some peaches from our peach trees which were bottled last year.  I used the salsa that we bottled last year for the dressing.

I the geraniums in a tray with eight cells or compartments.  This way they will not be so close together.  I have 221 plants.  If I sold them all for a fair price, they would bring over $600.00.  They are really nice plants.  Some have buds.

When the sun comes out from behind a cloud the temperature inside of house two is over 100 degrees.  It is too hot to work in there very long.  I uses a pallet on top of four stack of bricks with two in each stack.  The pallet is against the outside north door.  I go inside to fill a tray with soil, and do the planting outside.  It is at the right height for so I  don't have to do any bending over.  The seed box is on top where it is handy to find the needed seeds.

While I was doing some planting the lawnmower from Penny's arrived.  It to took me over two hours to mow the lawn.  The grass was pretty tall and in some areas a lot of leaves.    By the time was had finished mowing, I was pretty comfortable with the speed, throttle, reverse, and dumping the grass catcher.   I think I can mow faster the next time.

I planted one tray with two different kinds of cucumbers.  Burpless #26 and Sweet Success.  I have a clear tray which is used to cover a germination tray to prevent it from drying out.  I put about a half inch of water in it and set the germination tray in it.  The irrigation will be from the bottom.


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Weed Before Carol Does

Watered most everything in the garden.

The bean plants are doing so well.  The first blossoms appeared.  The beans will soon follow.

These are the beet plants.  There were not enough plants for the above space,  therefore, I planted two seeds into three holes.  They are germinating.  They may be covered by transplants on both sides.

The grapes are turning into raisons.  Removing the stems will take a long time.  Next year I thing that I will remove the stems before drying.

I worked in house six several different times during the day.  I made Tomahooks and used all of them.  I tied most of the tomato plants to the trellis lines.

The lawnmower broke down about three weeks ago in the backyard.  I was almost finished mowing.  I tried several times to start it and failed each time.  Richard, my neighbor, has helped me several times.  He has been gone most of the time since then.  He was home today, and I walked over to his house and asked him to pull the mower off the lawn.  He came over, took off the gas cap.  You guessed it.  The tank was empty.   I put what little gas that I into the tank.  The battery was pretty much dead.  We put the charger on and left it on for over an hour.  We cranked it but no luck.  Richard went home a got some starter fluid.  It started right up.   The front left tire was flat.  He, Richard, brought over a small compressor and pumped up the tire.  I mowed the lawn that wasn't mowed earlier.  I couldn't mow more because there was not much gas.

 This was the weed patch west the driveway, next to the road.  Carol threatened me.  If I don't dig up those weeds she would.  I worked out there for nearly two hours.  I dug all of the up,

The above three pictures are different shot of the same area.  The picture above show a lot of purslane.  I will spray them tomorrow or Monday.


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