Mesquite

I had the sprinkler running all night on the back lawn.  It was getting light when I turned off the light.  I then started bringing in the cucumbers that were in the garage.  We started breakfast.  Miles and Nyleen arrived about 7:30.  They will be driving.  I finished my breakfast and we loaded Miles' car.  I guess that I was in such a hurry to load that I didn't get any pictures.

We drove all the way to Mesquite where we were to meet Anne and Fred. We were taking vegetable to them. We had a couple of bathroom stops.  When we got there, the problems began.  First of all we were there nearly an hour before they were to be there.  We were to meet at McDonalds on the north end of Mesquite.  We waited and waited and waited.  They were waiting for us on the other side of McDonalds.  We finally got together and unloaded Miles' car into the car that Anne was driving.

The back of Miles' car is up getting ready to unload.

The car that Anne was driving is loaded and we are saying our good-byes.

We drove all the way to Beaver with a few quick stops.  We stopped at the ice-cream place for ice cream and cheese.

The drive was slow going both ways through the gorge.  Particularly bad going north.

Miles showed me this home made device used for cutting off corn from the cob.


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The Biggest Harvest So Far

I went outside this morning as it was getting light to start the harvest.  I was interrupted by three deer.

The doe and her fawn was in the back yard a little to the left and behind the cherry tree.  I was behind the pine tree by our patio.  Tiger, our cat, was at my feet.  I took the above picture.  The fawn started walking towards me.  I think that he was most interested in Tiger.

He keeps coming my way.  My smart phone didn't work right.  It kept turning off or switching to the selfie mode.

This is the last photo that I got.   He walked next to me and his nose was about six inches from tiger.  I think that it would have eaten and apple out of my hand if had one.

I scared them away and they went into our neighbors yard to the west of us.   There were three deer in total.

I built a wasp trap our of a bucket and window screen that I made into a funnel.  I had made the funnel several years ago.

The plums are getting starting to get ripe.  I picked some and took them into the house to ripen a little more.  The yellow jackets are eating the ones that fell to the ground.  The next picture are of what I harvested.

These are called Cherry Plum.  They are shaped like a Roma, but are much smaller.  They are juicy and sweet.  I can eat one in two bites.

These are Black Cherry.  This is my favorite cherry tomato.

Bell peppers, Anaheim peppers,  and Jalapeno peppers.

The is a yellow jacket nest in the electrical panel at the east end of house six.  One fell into a cob web on the greenhouse floor.  The black widow came right over to it and killed it.

Two totes of Lemon Boy tomatoes.  They are sweet and juicy.

 I had a 12:30 appointment with the dermatologist.  He dug out some more cancerist tissue on my temple by the right ear.  He scraped some tissue off an other cancerist on my neck on the left sign.

 This is a strange looking cucumber.

I cut a bunch of boxes in half and put each half

We put most of everything that we taking tomorrow morning on the kitchen table and bench.

I pulled a bunch of carrots to take to Mesquite, Nevada tomorrow.  

I spray them with the hose and the wetness gives them a shiny shim.

The yellow jackets made a nest in the electric box.  I sprayed them with W-D40.


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Las Vegas & Back in Two Days.

Wednesday

We drove straight to Las Vegas with one gas stop in St George and a couple of bathroom breaks.  When we got in Anne's neighborhood, we had a little trouble getting on the right street.  The above pictures shows three boxes of tomatoes and another box of cucumbers.

 I walked around Anne's small backyard.  The pomegranate shrub has a lot of fruits on one branch.

 A lot of fruit on the lemon tree.  It make take a couple more months before the are ripe.

Here is a close-up of the green lemons.

The girls discussing the merits of fresh fruit.  Left to right:  Nyleen, Anne, and Carol.

Soon we followed Anne and Fred to a Mexican restaurant where we had lunch.  Left to right around the tables.  Merrill, Anne, Fred, Miles, Nyleen, and Carol.  We had good food and a good visit.

I good picture of Fred and Anne Belhasen.  Fred is growing a beard.

Thursday

We drove to mesquite where we had reservations at the Virgin River hotel.  We had some difficulty finding our room.  At first we had a room that were going to share.  We walked down to the registration desk and straightened it out.  We had adjoining rooms on the top floor, which was the third floor.  We then went out to eat.  After looking around for a place to eat, we ended up at the drive up window of MacDonald's.  I got a chicken sandwich,  Carol got a extra large hamburger.  We drove back to our room and set around a table for supper.   We had a pretty go rest and were up at six Pacific time.

We had breakfast at the buffet.  There was a lot of good food.  We had all that we could eat.  The picture above:  Merrill, Carol, Nyleen and Miles.

 In Cedar City we stopped for gas again.  There were now restrooms here.  We drove to Walmart where we took care of that conceren.

We Drove to Beaver, Utah for ice cream.  We always stop her when going home.

 We ate our ice cream while sitting on some benches.  Miles and Nyleen are pictured above.

Merrill and Carol.  It looks like we have had a ragged day.  We really looked better than what this photo shows.

 Several years ago I grew these black locust trees for Cove Fort.  There are three trees.

Here I am standing in front of one of the trees.

 A beautiful flower bed at Cove Fort.

 Back in Holden I made some braces to hold up the tomato plants.

This photo shows the length of one tomato branch.

 One of the braces is placed under this horizontal branch to hold it up.

 One more picture

 I picked tomatoes for miles and Nyleen,  There were a bunch of spoiled ones which I fed to the chickens.

 I cut down one of the plant varieties called.  Coyote Cherry.   In the photo above are some empty spaces where the tomato plant was places.

I removed the tomato clips and piled the plants out side the door.

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