Sunday and Monday

We haven't seen any deer for several days, but Sunday afternoon there were three deer in the yard.  I started taking pictures and walked a little close to them.  The next five photos are of the deer on the lawn just back of our house.

I have been fasting this morning.  I am going to have a diabetes check.  The nurse at the hospital drew five vials of blood.  She did a good job.

The tomato plants that I propagated early last November are doing well and most of them have some fruit.  The one above is a large Yellow Roma. They are about the size of a teaspoon.

This leaf is from a tomato plant.  It was on my knee when I took the picture.  Many of our plants are infested with aphids.  There are  a couple of aphids on it.

I put a lot of these blue sticky traps to catch aphids and any other flying insect.

 These are small broccoli plants.

More plants.

There are ten pots of strawberry plants that I removed all the dead leaves.

Here they are all together. It took me nearly two hours to clean them up.

Pulled a few radishes and picked a one tomato.  They are small and not many left.  Some of the radishes have scars from the snails. but there were no fresh ones.

I watered the north side of house six.  I want the weeds to germinate.  It was much warmer in house two and six this afternoon.  

I made me a salad of lettuce, raisons, radishes, tomatoes,  peas, and sunflowers seeds.  I used salsa instead of dressing.  It tasted good.

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Changing/rebuilding

 Tiger, our strange cat, gets on the roof to stay out of arms way.  She is intimidated by our other cats.

The mic cord crank is modified again.  I made another tube out of small piece of pine.  I drilled a hole through it.  I carved until it looked like the one on the right.   We went to Fillmore where we washed the car.  I got two 1/2 inch bolts to fix the cord crank. 

Here it is finished.  I tried it out on some twine and it worked better than the other way.  The handle seems to be too large.

 Robert and Frank stopped for a short visit.  Frank brought some fertilizer.  I took the drum outside and gave it a thrower  cleaning.   It was really dirty.

The chicken feed I got Monday would not feed through the feeder.  I got a butter tub and filled it.  The chicks seemed to like it.

I got a call from Jim Masner.  CR Charlesworth is moving and he needs help load the furniture, etc.  In the picture above is the heavy safe.  It was downstairs, it took four or five men to drag and push it up the stairs.  A hand cart was used to move it out of the house into the waiting trailer.

I took a lot of pictures and got the back side of most everyone.

 Here is the safe in the trailer.

 I did get most of them together to get a good picture.

I made a salad for supper tonight.  I had half of it and may have the rest of it tomorrow night after we get home from the temple.

I made one more change on the mic cord crank.



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Re-building

It has been a pretty busy day.  I printed a picture of Carol's grandfather, father, uncle and grandmother.  The print queue had three pictures waiting.  Finally I was able clear the queue and print the picture.

The brackets that I made a couple of days ago were too short.  This morning I made some new ones.  I took several short cuts this time.  Instead of cutting them to length, ripping them to width and depth, I cut them to length and glued the three pieces of twelve inch 2x4's and then glued them together.  I clamped the together with pipe clamps underneath.  I then added two more clamps on top and waited until after lunch to finish cutting them to size.

There was still not time for lunch.  In greenhouse two I planted one six pack with Burpless Cucumbers.  One seed in each cell.  I put them a little tub of water.  The water soaked up and wetted all the seeds.

This tomato plant which I dug up last fall has been growing in house two since then. It three main branches.  I cut one off and staked the other two with bamboo stakes and tomato clips.  The stakes are four feet tall.

There were three tomatoes at the bottom.  Two were ripe and one, the smallest one, was green. I cut the cluster of and that is when I saw the green one.  The largest tomato fell from the stem the result of a small bump.  It looks like it will be a excellent salad tomato because of the easy picking.  Might be able to shake the plant and ripe tomatoes will fall off into large baskets.  They are about 2 1/2 inches long.  The Juliet tomato has the same picking characteristics.

I made a salad for lunch using the two small tomatoes, beet greens and some golden chard.  I other things in the salad are:  small sausage, peas from the freezer, raisons, cheese, and sunflower seeds.

Weeds have been a problem in the greenhouse as well as in the garden.  The weed above is a grassy weed that the next generation of plants will start in a month.

The underside of the bench top had a slight convex  that caused the top bracket to rock. The top was two wide to go through my twelve inch thickness plainer.  The first bench I made was twelve inch wide.  I ripped about one inch off the side.  I then run it through the thickness plainer un-numbered times until the convex surface was changed to straight.

I finished the two brackets.  Trimmed to the right size, softened the all the edges except the bottom edges.  It took me a long time to make a jig two get the holes in the right location and bet the right size  of bit.  I will use lag screws to attach the bracket to the bench.  In doing it this way I can take the bench apart for shipping, or I should say that I can put it in the trunk of the car.  



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