Hard Work,But Someone Has to do It.

This morning I began work in house one.

Yesterday there were still a lot of tomato plants hanging on the second row to the right.  It was quite cool this morning so I put on a medium weight coat.  I removed all the tomatoes in the second row.

We, Carol and I, removing the stems of the perennials.  We laid them on this tarp to hall them out to the garden.  

There are a lot of pruning at the garden west of the driveway.

Carol cut off the tops off the dahlias and I dug them up.  There was a lot of dirt in the roots.  They are in the large nursery can.  I put them in the garage.  

We pulled up the zinnias and put them on the tarp.  It was the heaviest tarp load today.  I had to rest about four times before I got it out to the garden.  

This is where I dumped all the frozen plant material.  I will spread it out a little and hope that it will decay some during the winter.

I needed to pick up the drip tamp.  Last year I pulled out the north end of house one and sometimes I pulled in front of house two and three.  

I wrapped the drip tape around the frame that I made.  I help it all together with twine.   The picture is of the second one.  It is wrapped with two rows of drip tape.  There are several splices.

The drip tape is gone.  Next year the vines will be trained to go horizontal.  In a space of twelve feet there will be eight horizontal lines.

I pulled up these carrots which I made soup.  Besides carrots there were peas, onions, and peas.  I put in the left over meat loaf from Sunday.  It tasted really good.


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First Real Winter Snow

The forecast yesterday was for a big snowstorm to come through Utah today.  It started snow some early this morning, I think that it was about 3:30.   A light comes on every morning at 5:44.  I don't have to have an alarm wake me up, and it usually wakes me up as soon as it comes on.  When it came on I chose to stay in bed just a few more minutes.   I must have gone back to sleep because in was a little after six when I climbed out of bed. 

I showered, pulled of the sheets to be washed, and read a chapter from the Book of Mormon,  Carol was up by now and began the laundry.  Tiger, our cat, lives in one of the greenhouses.  I take her food out in the morning and again in the evening.  That I did and she was there waiting for her breakfast.  I let the chickens out so they could get a drink from the dish the has water running in it night and day.  I usually through out hen scratch to them each morning but there was too much snow.  I fed them their mash in a large rubber dish in the hen house.

It snowed all day.  This morning there was about four inches of snow.  This is when I took the picture.

and by night there was about eight inches.  

After lunch, I worked for Carol.  She is in the Cub Scouts and every two years she has to be trained. She was trained on line and is now certified to work with the scouts.  It took about fifteen minutes to get her and account.  She took the training and now has a Youth Protection Training certificate.

This afternoon I put air in the tractor tires, attached the shovel to the tractor, and began the task of pushing the snow off the driveway and a walking area through the back yard.  Carol had made vegetable soup, with potatoes, left over roast from Sunday, carrots, celery and some leaks that I dug from the garden.  They were covered with snow on top of the leaves to protect the from freezing.  It was very good..

Looked out the door just now and there is another inch of snow.