After I finished eating breakfast and the morning chores were over, I tuned into channel seven which is the education channel.  Most of the shows deal with cooking, but I watched three half hour shows that deal with furniture construction and remodeling houses.

I finished my reading of a chapter in the Book of Mormon.

We drove up to the Holden cemetery where our grand daughter was buried.  We put a chrysanthemum adjacent to the corner of headstone.  I secured it a pair wire hooks pressed into the soil hooking to the edge of the pot.

There is a beautiful yellow old fashion rose bush.

I washed a group of large PVC pieces which I am taking to Roper Lumber.  The large piece is six inches in diamenter the smaller ones have a diameter of four inches.

Shane wanted the tractor moved.  I showed him how to start it.  He managed to get it off the higher pad.  I noticed the right front tire was rubbing the front tractor frame.  The lug nuts had come loos and were about to fall off.    I got a stare lug wrench and the other person there tightened up the lugs.  The tractor run much better.  Shane spread the ashes around.  He parked the tractor at the south end of house three.

The Blue Lake pole beans are quit yellow.  I applied some fertilizer on the south side.

Last week I dug up the saffron bulbs.  I replanted them between the lawn and the chicken run.  The are close to the water.

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Stll Diging Before Their Frozen In

I was walking on the west side past hen house.  I had let the chicken out earlier this morning.  there was a black cat in the chicken run that looked like Socks.  I could not see a tail.  It then made its way out by going under the fence.  The photo does not show the small hole.

West of house five there has been a pretty flower bed growing all summer.  The frost a couple of nights ago froze the annuals.  At the left of the picture are the perennials.

More Saffron flowers are blooming.  I cut the flowers of and took them into the house and remove the stamens.  My little dish has a bunch of them.

We dug some potatoes this morning and some more this afternoon.  Yukon gold is pictured below.  We dug some of these yesterday and dug the rest today.  The potato vines died and dried up several months ago.  The ground is somewhat dry and it had to dig them with a shovel.  I tried a pitchfork and that wasn't any easier.  I have another shovel that is heavy and I don't use it much.  But it worked well with the potatoes.  the blade more pointed and narrow than the other shovels.  I helped a whole bunch.

 We dug all of the Red Lasoda potatoes today.  They are a potato that stores well and does well in hot dry areas.

We also dug the All Blue potato.  they were not very big and tuber is the same color as the soil making it hard to see them.  I didn't get a picture.


I pulled the stake out of the ground using the shovel to dig a little and then hooking to the corner of the stake and pushing the shovel handle down I levered it up.

I coiled up the hose in a figure eight pattern that was used in the melon garden  to prepare for next year.  I can pull the hose back on the garden without and kinks.

On Monday I planted red beets by droping a seed in each cell.  I my plant was to remove the Styrofoam after the beets were going up through the cell.  I moved the Styrofoam today and the covered the seeds with    ?????             and put the Styrofoam back on top of the seeds.  The seeds will not be washed away.

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Colder Weather, Securing the North End of House One.

I drove to the dentist's office to pay a bill.  On the way I saw the pretty yellow flowers.  I had to stop and take a picture, but I thought that I left my phone home.  I went home and Carol went to her DUP meeting.  I walked over and took several pictures.  After closer examination I could see that they were gum weeds.  They looked so pretty because they had been mowed down several times and bloomed on short stems.  Normally they have tall stems and are not landscape plants.

There was a cold breeze blowing below the doors on the north end of house six. The block and pieces of wood covered the space below the doors.

Some pretty aster were growing the upper pad.  We used to grow these, but there were not very impressive in the pot. The one below look really pretty good.

I wanted to plant some red beats.  An idea forced itself into my head.  I could easily space the plants by using a Styrofoam tray.  One tray had 338 cells.  I had to make the raised level.  I used the 2x4 to smooth it off.  It would have been much easier with the help of another person.

I was planting red beats and the seed was to large and got stuck in the Styrofoam cells.  I use a drill and a 5/16 inch bit to make the hole in the bottom of the cell larger.  I tried several other size bits there were either too large or too small.

I was kneeling on the right of the Styrofoam dropping a seed into each cell.  I was hard to lean over and drop the seed.  Idea.  I got a large piece of plywood set it in front of the Styrofoam.  With the chair, I could sit there and lean over and drop in a seed.  I used tweezers. that didn't work.  I used a little spoon and picked up the seed with the spoon and dropped in the seed.  That was to slow.  Finally, I put the seeds in a small container and was able to pick one or two seeds.

I left the Styrofoam in place when I watered them.  I think that the beets will germinated and grow up through the cells.  after the leaves come through I will remove the Styrofoam and the beets will establish them selves.

As I was walking to turn off the water, I walked past the Saffron plants.  They were blooming.  I thought they were through blooming.  I took a closer look and there were a bunch of flowers with the reddish, orange stigmas.   I left some chard boiling on the stove, and hurried back to the house.  I lowered the temperature and went back and cut off the flowers.  When in the house I removed the stigmas as you see in the photo below.  There may be more tomorrow.

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