Mowed the Lawn

Soon after breakfast, I was removing all the garden hose off the lawn.  I remove chairs and other things that were in my way.  Next I went around with the weed eater and trimmed around trees, sidewalk, and bushes.  I added oil to the lawn mower and checked the gas tank.  It was about half full. I mowed the front, the east lawn, the back lawn and finished with the west lawn.

This is the first of four loads of grass clipping.  The grass on the front lawn was really tall.

I had a little corn in the garage fridge.  I shucked it all except one ear.  I think that it will keep for quite a long time in the fridge.

I dug the onions a couple of days ago.  Today, I cut off the tops and cleaned any dirt off the bulbs.  I put them in the above create.  A couple of the slats on the bottom broke loose on one end.  Some of the onions fell through

A good photo of the freshly mowed lawn with the flowers and shrubs.

Late this afternoon I watered the orchard.  Apples are looking great.  The above picture shows the sprinkler on the east apple tree.   I watered most of the garden.

We ate the last of the potatoes for super.  We pealed the rest of the potatoes.  Most were really small.  Carol shredded them and then fried them with two sliced onions from the garden.  Next week I will be digging some potatoes.  

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Fell the Trees

We, Richard Darnell and me, began the project of cutting down the dead trees south of the shade house.  While he was bring over his chains and tools, I carried tree branches that I cut down last week.

This is how it looked before we got started.  The first tree cut down is the dark one in the middle of the above picture.  Richard put and extension ladder against that tree, and tied around the tree as high as he could each standing as far up the ladder that was safe.  A come along was tied to a tree in the direction that we wanted the tree to fall.  A bunch of chains hooked the tree chain the come along.

 Here Richard is connecting the chain to the tree chain.  The come along pulled the chain tight so there was no way that the tree could fall backwards and crush Mary's fence and shed.

Richard is cleaning was all the broken branches away from the tree that is being cut down.

 Richard is cutting out a wedge on the front of the tree.  It took quite a while to get it cut out.

 He is still working on removing the wedge.  When he finished with the wedge he cut in back of the tree parallel to the wedge.  The tree fell in the right direction.  I wanted to get a video of it, but I couldn't get the camera phone to work.

He cut down three more trees. Two smaller ones and the last one was larger than the first.  There is a lot of firewood out there.

This afternoon I transplanted eight pinion pines into quart pots.

I got the compressor working by disconnecting the wires from the breaker and holding them together with a theme clip.  I turned the compressor on and it filled the tank with air.  I was then able to fill the lawnmower tires.

Last I mowed the lawn.  The lawn mower was not working to well last week.  It started right up. I mowed a little and then it acted like it was running out of gas.  I put a couple of gallons in the tank and began mowing.  The engine acted like it was not sparking properly.  I did get the mowed.

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