A Hose in House Five

Light Snow again this morning.  So good for the peas.  Not much going on so far this morning.  I fixed breakfast two pieces of toast.  One for Carol and one for me.  A boiled egg for Carol.  She make and egg salad.  I had a fried egg with left over onions from last night on the other piece of toast.   I fed chicken scratch to the chickens.  I throw out a cupful.  I checked my email and scrolled through Face Book.  We delivered a two puzzles to the Marsha Ashby and then picked up the mail.  As we pulled into the post office the siren sounded the the fire station.  One fire truck headed north on main street.  At this point I don't know where.  But it is likely that there was some type of accident on the freeway north of Holden.  Snow pretty much melted now.  

It is difficult to water the our plants at the north west end of house five.  Shane, Dustin, Dustin's dad, and Karla were in house five when I went to water our plants. I explained the problem watering.  Dustin said that each house would have their own hose.  I told them about the small root control bags.  After they left I came back and got the hose that was in house four.  There aren't and plants there so no need to have a hose.  

I took the hose and the want into house five.  The hose is was tangled and over seventy-two feet long.  I untangled the hose and pulled it to the end of house five.

I removed the hose in house five, and hooked the black hose to the hose bib.

The fertilizer injector was going like crazy.  The fertilizer in the blue barrow was gone,  I turned the injector to the off position, shut of the water and that stopped the injector from operating.

The hemp in house two is looking good.  I had planned to drive the truck to Fillmore to get some lumber for to build a small greenhouse on the south end of the garage.  I got the battery charger and two extension cords.  I plugged in the block heater and battery charger and let it charge for over an hour.  

The truck started right up.  I drove to the post office.  There were a lot of cars there for this time of the day.  I took the above picture and got a couple of cars.

I went back later in the evening and got this picture showing that the out side was looking good.

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Sheets, Garden, New Grape Vines

Every other Monday is sheet washing day.  All of the sheets and pillow cases were piled up in the laundry room.  Carol started the wash and I think that there were three loads.  After breakfast we made a potato salad.  Carol peeled the potatoes and I pushed them trough the salad maker.  She then peeled the eggs and I also pushed them through the salad maker.  Last we did the onions.  We used the same salad maker with a different piece. 

Carol needed an onion.  I removed all of the soft onions.  Those that started to grow were removed.

I dumped them on the compost pile.

Carol has been planning for a week to make three fruit ice cream for memorial day.  We bought two bags of ice, a pint of cream, and a gallon of whole milk.   She put all of the ingredients except for the milk last night and kept it in the fridge all night.  Carol put it in the freezer.  I put in the ice and salt.  It took about forty-five minutes for the ice cream to freeze.  We imediately dished out two bowels and sat down and enjoyed.

The flags were posted in people's yards.   It is a fund raiser for the young men and young women it our ward.

I wrapped the ice cream freezer with several towels and tied it with twine.  This keeps it cold for several hours.

The corn is looking kind a yellow.  I put a small handful of nitrogen between each plant cluster.

Last summer I planted a row of grape vines.  I got some cuttings last year from Miles Batty.  They rooted.   When I checked them this spring, it looked like they had died.  But this afternoon I found two that were growing.

This is the second one.

I poured several gallons of water on the Elder Berry plant.  Hope that it will perk up.

Shane and his crew are going to plant hemp in and area on the north side of the grape plants.  I started to move the long black pipe to another location.

Pad one.  This just west of house five that they are getting ready for hemp.

This is pad two.  It is in the corner.

This is pad three.  It is south of house six.

They were using my tiller, but before they finished, the tiller quit.  It began to surge and lost power when tines were put in the ground.  He is going to fix it tomorrow.

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Warmer, Planting, Watering, Trapping

We drove to Fillmore this morning and washed our car.  It was really dirty and now looks really good.

Carol has been working on this puzzle for several days and finished today.

The warmer days has melted the ice in house six.  I drug the hose to the west end and turned on the sprinkler and watered the north side of house six.  There are millions of seeds and hopefully they will begin germinating.  I can kill them before we plant some carrots.

While the water was running I transplanted the broccoli into the jumbo six packs.

I removed the sticks that I put down to capture snails and slugs.  There weren't any.  

I planted Swiss Chard, Kale,  lettuce and a few others.  The picture is full of vermiculite.  I put a half teaspoon on each seed.

There were a few different tomato seeds where I use one or two six packs.

I took a picture of three radishes that had be damaged by what I thought were slugs and snails.  I put this photo on the Utah Homesteader's Face Book page.  There were ten comments and most said that they have been eaten by mice.  I put out three traps and baited them with small roast beef strips from Sunday dinner.  

This pole bean plant has been damaged by some caterpillar.  There are five other plants with the same symptoms.  

I took an other picture of the sprinkler.  I shut off the water.  The pathway has a lot of water on it.

Last week I made this stool, but it didn't have a top.  I cut a nineteen inch piece off a 1/2 inch sheet of plywood.  I cut it to size of 18 inch square.  I had a problem of getting it centered on the plywood top.  I decided put down some glue the top to the base.  I put a heavy weight on it to hold the legs to the base.  Tomorrow I can remove the weight and drive some screws through the top into the legs and rails.

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