Getting Ready to Till

When we got home from the temple, I changed clothes and turned up the thermostat. There were no small screen showed nothing.  I called Andrew who is our furnace man.  He was in McCornick and would stop on his way home.  He would be here in about one hour.

 I then began work on the Viking stool legs.  The draw knife in most cases would tare out to much wood.  I have a rasp on my drill that does a good job of removing wood.  I got all three legs in to a rough shape.  I put a new belt on my belt sander.  it remove would pretty fast.  I had to hold it with the vice.  I got the all sanded.

I cleaned the leaves out of the steps that goes under the house.  I thought that he might need to check the furnace.  He came and pulled off the thermostat and replaced the batteries. I required two double A batteries that we had.  We have a good selection of different batteries.  The batteries fixed the problem.  That took him about five minutes.  He didn't charges any thing.  A couple of days ago the phone batteries went dead.  We should have them Monday.  I checked my email and it said that they will be here Saturday.

I gassed up the weed whip and went after the pepper and eggplants in Robert's garden.  Last time the weed whip was not working well.  Today it worked like new.  I had to replace the whip.  I pulled all the drip tape and cut down the plants.

I had a little bit of time before the 5:30 news.  I used the orbit sander on the stool legs.  I was able to sand the legs.  They will soon be ready for staining.


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More Picking Las Vegas

This morning after breakfast we picked the pole beans.  We got one full bag.  Carol took it to the Bennett's.  We picked summer squash, more cucumbers, and peppers.  No pictures of what I picked.

Last week I dug up the leaking pipe. Today I covered it up.  I didn't want to pack the soil down.  What I did was to put half of the soil back into the hole.  I then filled it full of water.  I will add more soil to it tomorrow.  

 We got a load of grass clipping yesterday.  I couldn't get it move last night.  After looking all over the yard for the pitchfork, I found it in the back of the truck where I put it when we had our irrigation turn.  I hauled it to the garden.  There was thirteen loads.  It was pretty warm but there was cloud cover most of the time.

There is not anything planted here.  I have covered the weeds and weed seeds.  Next year I will have to figure away to grow vegetables.    There is a lot of grass.

I watered houses two, three, and five this afternoon.  In house two there was a wild aster in full bloom growing in the pot with the Salvia pachyphylla.   I cut off the flowers off to prevent reseeding.  I then cut off the stem below the surface of the soil to kill the stem.  There was a large white root growing up.  What was it, I don't know.  It is different from the aster.   Must come from the Salvia.  We will watch it to see what happens.

I was picking a couple more buckets of tomatoes and notice this cluster of tomatoes.  I had to take a picture.  I picked all the ripe ones.

I finished eating the watermelon in the fridge which was given to us by Coral Richardson.  I then picked a watermelon in the melon garden which had two dry tendrils which is an indication of ripeness.  Later I ate a small part of it.  It was not as red as I had hoped, but it was sweet down to the white close to the rind.

We picked more cucumber, peppers, and egg plants for our Las Vegas trip.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Temple - Not Much Time

I picked about one half bucket of Burpless cucumbers.  Carol took them to the post office.  There is one small tree that was pulled out of the lawn and branches cut from the Honey Locust tree.  After breakfast I cut the branches into pieces and loaded them on the trailer.

 The bell pepper plants were laying down some.  I staked more of them up this morning.

I picked one red pepper


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