The Viking Stool, Almost finished

I took out my buckets to house six and picked tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, red beets, and egg plants.  Then in house two I pulled up a bunch of salad onions.  Then at the garden I dug two large onions and pulled a nice bunch of carrots.

I washed the carrots, salad onions, red beets,  and the slicing onions on the grass by the patio.  It went quite fast with aa bucket of water and sprayer on the garden hose.  Then it took the veggies in the house for a fine washing.  I loaded the bucket with the hard veggies on the bottom and softer ones on top.  I put it in the garage fridge.

There was somethings left over and we took them to the post office.  Almost everything was gone by the end of the day.

I took tomato plant cuttings from a tomato I call Yellow Banana.  and

Purple Cherry Plum.

I did one called Orange Gladiator a couple of days ago. It is in the kitchen window with the other two. They have an orange juicy fruit.  I ate them for supper tonight.

They are about three inches long.

We went to Fillmore for some groceries and deliver the bucket of veggies to Kim Christenson at State Bank.  I wanted some epoxy for the Viking stool, but I didn't want to pay $30.00 for it.  I did get some glue.

I made some wedges out of mahogany.  I cut a slit in the top part of the leg and glued the legs to the seat.  I glued the wedge into the slot and drove them in hard.  I cut off the part of the leg that was above the seat at the table saw.  I then sanded it down smooth.  The above stool looks pretty good.

Looking at it from a different angle shows the closest leg pointing in the wrong direction.  To fix it I would have to drill it out and make a new leg.  I won't be doing that.  

We walked out to the garden and picked beans, tomatoes, and some summer squash.

At the north garden I picked a melon the had a big slit in the blossom end.  I cut off the one end and remove the seeds.  I cut off the green flesh and put it in the fridge.  It is not hardly ripe, but pretty sweet.


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Four Buckets of Tomatoes

Didn't get to watch much of the news.  We wanted to get the tomatoes picked and delivered.

The first was to pick the tomatoes.  I ended up with four buckets.  The yellow bucket is full of Gladiator tomatoes.  They are large paste tomatoes.  It didn't take very long to pick.  We delivered them to Karen Bennett.

There is the yellow bucket again.  But this time is full of cucumbers.  There were way more cucumbers than I thought.  I didn't pick any yesterday because it was Sunday.

 Carol washed the cucumbers.

 I went back to house six and took the above picture.  There is a row of cucumbers at the left and some of the branches worked their way into the tomato plants.  I will probably pick this one tomorrow.

I missed this cucumber that is way ready to be harvested.  I picked it this morning.

I also picked eggplants, bell peppers, jalapeno pepper, and Anaheim  peppers.  Then in the far right is some small tomatoes that I call,  Purple Cherry.

This is one the sweetest and juicy tomato.  I am calling it Orange Gladiator.

We took our garbage to the dump.  Jim Masner was there.  We visited for a while and then came home.  The went first and then we past him.  He noticed that the break light on the driver's side did not work.  We picked up the mail.  I had a package that contained the parts for the garbage disposal.  The part that we needed wasn't in the box.  We drove to Fillmore to get light fixed.  We pulled into Deardon Motor Company.  They seemed to be busy and I finally got the receptionist to help us.  Eventually James Deardon, one of the owners said that it wouldn't take long.  We waited for over and hour.  I took them about five minutes to replace the light.  He charged us only $2.50.

Carol had a prescription filled.  While she was doing that I went to a parts store for some rubber hose.   They didn't have what I wanted.  I then went to Roper's and got a few things that I needed to fix the garbage disposal.  I found a short piece of rubber hose about two inches long.

I got it all put together.  I started the dishwasher and there were not leaks.

I finished the second leg on the Viking stool.

I then started the third leg.  It is roughed out as shown in the above photo.

This is a volunteer geranium.  It has quite a pinkish salmon.


Comments and questions are welcome.