Two Inches of Powder

After showering and shaving, I turned on the TV to check out reception.  Reception was okay.  I then began to read the Book of Ether from the Book of Mormon.  We had our usual breakfast.  

As soon as breakfast was over, I made a pathway through the snow to house five.   One of the orange cats is trying out the path.  

Here is two inches of new snow.  I began to remove the snow from the driveway.

First, I made a path through the snow down the middle of the driveway.  I pushed some of the snow off to the west side.

Next, I made the path down the middle of the driveway wider by pushing some of the snow to the left side of the driveway and then the some to the right side of the driveway. Then I went back and pushed both sides to the edge of the pavement.  By afternoon, the driveway and road were dry.

Two inches of snow on the front sidewalk.    Last week Debora Shepard called about native plants.  I told her that I had retired, but we had tubes and trays.  If she wanted them, she could come and get some, but not one Wednesday.  She said that she would call.  She called, but my phone was off.  She knocked on our front door.  She and husband were here with a truck.

They got all off the tube trays that would fit in their truck.

They also four or five large boxes black seven cubic inch tubes.  The above photo shows where they were located.

The above photo is a poinsettia plant that I though had died.  He pointed out that there were new leaf buds.  It was pretty dry, so I put in a pan of water.

The pomegranate bush has a lot of stems with leaf buds.

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Turning Off the Water

This morning I worked in the garage making new bases for the cut out pumpkins.  I finished one Yesterday I finished bases for for two pumpkin cutouts and this morning.  I finished the third one.   I picked a lot of small tomatoes.  We gave them to Ann next door.  One of her grandsons is being baptized Saturday and they are have a family dinner.  

Before I could see the base of each pumpkin cut out.  Now they look much better.    Expecting a fairly hard freeze in the morning. 

The photo shows the back side.  I put a brick onto of the base so the wind won't blow it over.  We show the backside when Halloween  is over.  Should I paint it orange to match the pumpkin are do I paint it brown as and earthy color or and other color.

 I shut off the water and opened every tap and faucet from the well to the west end of our yard.  I drained out all of the water in the lines.

A couple of Ann's kittens were drinking from the end of one pipe line where I removed a cap off te pipe.

I cut down five or six tomato plants on the north side of our garden.  I stacked the cages on the far end of the row.

Here is another pipe.  I removed the cap.  You can see the water running from the left side.

The tomato plants ended up at in a big pile of plant material I have been putting there for the last couple of years.

Because of the danger of frost, I moved the pomegranate tree to the garage.  I had to pull up the guy wired and dipped it over.  I dragged it to the drive way and pulled it to the garage.  I stood it up one the west side of the garage between the car and the west wall.  It was about nine when I did it.  

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Pomegranate Harvest

I uncovered the bean plants and then picked the cucumbers and zucchinis.  I took them to the post office.  Carol got the mail and there was on two Topaz melon orders.  I went back to the post office to mail them.

This is what was left when I went to the post office about 11:30

The pomegranate bush/tree has done really after I put it in the front yard.  It lost most of the flowers and pollinated flowers.  But a good crop of new one were started.

I picked eleven pomegranates which was all of them.  They are in the bottom of the bucket.  

Carol is holding the largest one in her hand.

The grapes are basically dried.   Most every one of them is still attached to a tiny stem.  I pulled each one free from the raison.  I missed some. There are four trays.  I done one today.

The dahlias are beautiful now.  Above is an example of one group.

I got this picture of a new house.  

The white geraniums lately have been so pretty
This geranium mix is equally pretty.

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29 March - Church at Home

Fast Sunday today.  President Russel M. Nelson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints  asked everyone to fast and pray for the end of Covid-19.  There are four death in Utah due to the Covid-19.  So we chose to fast.   I showered and shaved this morning and put on my suit in reverence to the sabbath.

I read Mosiah 2 and posted a few comments on face about this chapter.

Carol prepared most of the dinner.  We started our church services at nine.  I administered the sacrament as instructed by our church leaders.  We watched two Book of Mormon videos and another video about preparing for General conference.

Our dinner consisted of a roast that was in a slow cooker for eight hours, mashed potatoes and gravy, peas, carrots, and I had sweet potato that was in the slow cooker for about five hours.  All of it was good.  

Later I walked out to the garden and this picture of the rhubarb that is doing so well this spring.  A row of peas is going nest to the rhubarb  is coming up solid.  The carrots are coming up and are fairly easy to see.  I looks like the  radishes are starting to germnate.

I watered the tree and found two red buds.  I also watered the decennia and the trays on the germinating bench.


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Some Shrubs are Inside

Saturday 5 October

Deer in the yard.  I couldn't find the phone number of the person from the DWRS.

Another photo of the deeer.

Here the guys are figuring how to wire for the LED grow lights.  Shane and Duston are making great progress.

Monday, 7 October

I dug up the purple darcenia.  There was a large root growing through the bottom of the pot.  I cut it off with my hand saw.

I also dug up the pomegranate shrub.  It had one large pomegranate hanging from near the top of the plant.  It fell of while I was taking it to house six.

The Dracaena is placed next to the pomegranate shrub.  I also brought over a small green Dracaena.

I put on clear oil on it.  This stand and another one will be the home of two poinsettias.  They will be in the little bedroom at night and in the front room during the day.

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First Night of Frost

I get up around 5:30 most mornings and this morning was no different.  The temperature in the house was 66 degrees which is the coldest morning since early spring.  It starts getting light at seven.

The first frost of the fall.  The is the front lawn.  There is not frost under the trees.  I worked at the computer making a list of seeds that I am going to order now for next spring.  I order 300 geranium seeds.  They will be planted around the first of December

We picked beans.  This is most likely our last picking.  I'm expecting them to freeze tonight.  We didn't get a lot, but there is enough for dinner tonight.  We took some vegetable to the Masner's.  We left some hot peppers at the post office.  Most were gone this evening.  In the above picture, Carol is picking beans on the south side of the hoop trellis.

I pruned the lantana, removed the hanging baskets, and moved the purple fountain grass.  One on each side of the door.  We rearranged the other Halloween things.  It looks pretty good.

The lemon trees were buried in the ground.  I dug two up and the other one I pulled it right out of the ground.  The pots and trees were buried last spring to keep them from blowing over.  It worked.  The wind blew and blew and they stayed right were I put them.

I dug up the pomegranate tree, and loaded it on the cart, put it in house two.

A photo from the left side.

And one from the right side.  The photo doesn't show it but it is setting on a large round concrete donut.  The bottom of the nursery can is somewhat convex.  The donut is a stable base.

I turned of the power to the well.  I turned on all the hose bibs at the west end of the garden so the water would drain out of the buried pipes.

I remove the timer and put it away so it would not freeze and break.

The arrow is pointing to the ball valve.  I opened it to let the water drain out.

I dug up the dracaena that we have had for many years.  I drove in three half inch conduit pipes.  One in back and two, one on the left and the other one on the right.  They hold the dracaena straight up.  And every year it gets a little bigger.  To right you see the pomegranate tree on top of the concrete donut.

There may be a hard freeze tonight, so I picked a couple of watermelons.

 And three topaz melons.

And spaghetti squash.


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Visitors Today

This morning I walked around the yard and garden took some pictures.

Stansbury Rock Daisy, Perityle stansburyi.  The seeds for this plant was planted over two years ago.  It and two there plants survived the winter in a cold frame.  I potted them several months ago.  There is one more that germinated this spring.  The seeds look like a shiny speck of pepper.

This tomato plant was started sometime in March.  Tasmanian Chocolate.  A new variety for me this year.

Richard, our oldest son, visited us this afternoon.  He is on the right.  David Chidester, a life time friend is between his two daughters.

The same as above.  That large Dracaena has been in the greenhouse all winter.  They helped bring it out.  The plant is tipped in the pot.  We dug a hole to plant it deep enough to resist the wind.  We drove three half inch conduits on the north side down through the inside edge.  It needs some on the south sided.

I looks pretty straight here.  Red geraniums were pulled out last fall.  When the days grew longer, the geraniums began to grow again. 

The pomegranate shrub was done much the same way/  We had to trim some of the soil away and prune some of the roots to make it stand up straight.

Three half inch conduit stakes were driven in close to the inside edge in a triangular spacing.

This is how it looked after finishing.

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