Moved Palm

After breakfast I went north on 100 west to 100 south.  I turned east to main street and then walked south until I reached 300 south which was our street.  I took pictures along the way.  When I got back to the house. it was time for the Fillmore Stake conference.  We watched in on my lap top computer.  I unplugged it.  The battery lasted for about an hour and fifty minutes.  I plugged it back in we watched the rest of the conference.  It ended at twelve.

We had a warm up lunch.  We watched Tayler and Tyler's discussion on the Doctrine and Covenants.

Following is the pictures that I took this morning and some that I took this evening.  

A ripe Topaz melon picked this morning.

Mike Blazerd's car barn.  There were some people working on the west end.

A photo from a different angle.  Looking south west.

A poor picture to wards the sun of a cedar post fence with the post edge to edge.

Here is a new cedar post fence built this year.  I didn't see it being built.

It is expected to be freezing most of the night and early morning.  Justin 

Smith has been working in house five most of the afternoon.  He was going home.  I stopped him and asked him to help move this tree which I called the palm tree.   We dug it up in the front yard and moved it to the west end of house five.

They removed the buds from the hemp and laid the rest of the plant out to dry.

Later this evening I picked two more Topaz Melons.  One was ripe and the other would be ripe in a few more days.

Since the dahlias would  freeze, I cut a bunch and Carol pruned them and put them a vase.  

A photo from the other side.

I brought the pumpkins into the house to keep them from freezing.

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Preparing for Plant Sale

Yesterday I emptied most of the gallon pots.  Today I put the pot away.  Most of them went into the shed.  The round pots went into house four.

I loaded two tubs of plant tags into the truck.  I put all the garbage containers which held broken pots and trays and some dust.  We went to the dumpster and unloaded

I picked the pumpkin.  Carol wanted it on the front porch. I planted four seeds in four different hills sometime in early July.  Then I pulled all of the plants except one in each hill.  Then a staked with a six stake.  As it grew I tied it to the stake and cut off all branching.  I thought that it might have been planted to late to turn orange.

All week I have been posting on face book a perennial and native plant sale this afternoon and tomorrow morning.  That is the reason for so much cleaning.  I gathered up all of my small plant signs and picked the one that matched my native plants.  I had enough for most of them.

One customer came.  I call it one, but it was a man and his wife that recently moved into Holden.   They spent $25.00.  We will see what tomorrow brings.

Almost finished with cleaning the shed.  It looks a lot better and there is room for a few more things.  I swept it with the big push broom.  I have hundreds if not thousand of azalea pot of different sizes.  The next project if group them according to size.  I bought these pots for the poinsettias which I haven grown for years.

I emptied the cone-tainers and stacked all of them which make thing look a little neater.

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Lot of Picking

As soon as breakfast was over we started picking.  Carol began at the pole beans and I started in house one with the tomatoes.  I filled one bucket.  Dusty came over and she filled a half bushel box with tomatoes.  She went home and Carol and I picked tomatoes, cucumbers, and summer squash from our garden.  We filled two totes.

I picked more tomatoes and filled two buckets.  Carol prepared some produce for the Atkinsons who have four young foster girls.  I delivered the two bucket to the troseths and produce bag to the Atkinsons.

I picked a Topaz melon shown below which is beginning to come apart.  All of those that I have picked are too ripe.

Cut in half.

Some of the tomatoes are ripening in clusters.

We drove to Fillmore for a few groceries and mainly cat food.

After lunch I filled the tractor tires with air and attached the post hole digger.  The Stephens next had to put down their dog because of sickness.  They asked if I would make to hole for the grave.  I got the tractor working and helped them dig out the hole. They put the dog in and we filled the hole.

I put the post hole digger away and put the bucket back on.  I scooped up a little dirt and dumped it on the lawn next to the patio.

I mowed the lawn which hasn't been mowed for ten days.  I dumped the catch twice.

The pumpkin is beginning to turn orange as shown below.

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Happenings All Day Long

We picked the pole beans this morning.  There are two types.  One is more round and the other one is flat.  They are pictures below.  The seed for the round beans came from Mountain Valley Seeds.  They were started in the greenhouse in March.  We had some cold weather after I planted them.  I put too much liquied fertilizer on the them and some of them died.  The flat seed came from Walmart.  They were plan ted later.  It took booth of them a long time to produce some beans.  I boiled the flat beans for about twenty minutes a couple days ago.  I salted and buttered them, they were still a little hard.  Today, I boiled them twenty more minutes; buttered and salted them again.  They just did not taste like the round pole beans.

We picked all the round beans, Carol washed them and they are pictured below.  We were going to take them to one of our neighbors across town.  They were not home.

We picked all of the burpless cucumbers.  We bagged them up and Carol took them to another neighbor. 

Carol picked the summer squash.  The squash vines are still growing and I the new growth to the stake.  I then removed the lower leave

I tied the watermelon up a little higer so that their was some space between the melon and the ground.

This watermelon is growing bigger each day. I take pictures every day.

Same with the pumpkin.

Here is a different kind of pumpkin.  I am not sure which this is.

We are going to the temple in the morning and we leave a little after four.  We can't pick in the morning, so I picked tonight.  I got two full buckets.

 Carol washed them and I put them in the totes.  I then took them to the post office where we hope that they will be gone by tomorrow evening.

 Those that were extra large were cut in half and given to the chickens.

The chickens really went after the cucumber seeds.

 On pinterest, they showed a bottle full of chicken scratch.  The purpose is to prevent chick borddem. There are some large hole in the side of the bottle.  The chicken try to get the scratch.  Now they are scared of it and you can see the grain around the bottle.

Provo in the Rain

It rained some in the night, but only enough to have a good wet lawn and wet sidewalks.  I did a little watering and we then drove to Provo to do some shopping.  The weather has been cool and no sunshine all day.  It sprinkled off and on all the way up and all the way home.

I bought me a small lamp for about five dollars and a timer for the same amount.  On the way home we stopped at the Red Barn in Santaquin for ice cream.  Carol got a soft ice cream cone and a I got a small cup of ice cream.  Mine was huge.  It had two scoops and lasted me nearly two the Yuba lake exit.  Next time I will bet a little cup which has only one scoop.

I am not to lift any thing weighing more than ten pounds.  Carol had to lift the cat food and the soap products. 

I set up the time that will turn the lamp on about 5:30.  I don't want to use the alarm clock to wake me up,  I would like to think that the sun light is coming through the window.

The last thing that I did was to carve the pumpkin.  A picture tomorrow.