Shut off Water

I read from the Book of Mormon and posted a quote with comment to Face Book.  I prepared breakfast.  Later I started to water the lawns.  

There were a lot of leaves on the east lawn.  I thought about raking, but on second thought I got the lawnmower. I put the blade in the three-inch position.  Then mowed up the leaves and dumped them on the large pile of leaves to be composted.

I stared to cover the chicken tunnel with Styrofoam.  I made it three panels thick.  I hung bricks from one side to the other.  There were two sets of brick held together with twine.

This show the three panels of Styrofoam.

I put five layers of of Styrofoam on top.

I made device to hold the lid on tight. I didn't want a skunk to be able to lift it up.

Carol made a batch of zucchini bread.  It smelled so good. It also tasted good.  I turned off the electricity to the well.  I walked all over the yard opening every water valve.  That drained all of the pipes that went through our yard.

I had the turn on the valve at the well to drain the water out of this pipe.  I could not turn it on. I decided to undo the union.  It wouldn't budge.  I got a pipe and slid it over the handle of the pipe wrench. I still would not budge.  I gave up.

There are a lot of dead weeds in the south-east corner of our yard.  I cut the weeds with my weed eater and made a path that went to the well.  I also made a path that went to the pile of reused potting soil. 

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Sunday Morning & Sunday Afternoon Conference

We watched conference most of the day.  It started at ten and ended at four.  There was a two hour break for lunch.  There were programs before conference and during lunch and again some after the conference.

The speakers were excellent and inspirational.  The reports between sessions were interesting.  

This zucchini plant was lousy with squash bugs,  I cut off the whole plant and put in on the compost pile.

This zucchini was hiding.  It is about twenty inches long..

I re-set the trap hoping to catch a skunk.  I put dry cat food in the can.

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Big Potatoes

I had the water running all night on the back lawn.  As soon as I dressed, I shut it off and started watering on the east lawn, the front lawn, and the geraniums.  After breakfast I dug a lot of weeds in the garden.  I also turned the water on the dahlias.  It was getting dark when I turned of the water.

We drove to Fillmore to buy some groceries.  

Carol is going to make potato salad for the Saturday golfing party.  I dug up three hills of potatoes.  They are some of the biggest potatoes that we have grown.  The vines were at least a yard long.  The two top potatoes in the picture came from one hill.

The zucchinis are doing well.  I cut these this morning.

There are lots cleomes growing and are in full bloom,  I found this white one by the tree spade.

I was checking my email this afternoon and found a note that the car registration had expired on the last day of July.  I went on line and paid the fee and got a temporary permit.  

There is a big Siberian Elm tree in the south east of our property.  A huge branch broke off.  You can see where it broke from in the top right hand corner of the photo.

This photo shows the size or length of the limb.

Another photo showing its size.

A closer view of where the limb was growing.  I have no idea when or what cause it to brake. 

The instructions was to put the temporary permit in the back window of the car.  I put tape on it several times before I got it right.

The Fillmore stake sponsored a evening of dinner and entertainment.  I drove over and got two meals and brought them home.  There was pulled pork on a bun.  A small container of a sauce.  A serving of potato salad.  and and frozen ice cream bar.
 

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Fool Creek

After morning chores I began to work in the garage.  I cut some pieces of 2x2's for the legs of my stacking stools.  I am making three.  I need twelve legs and twelve rails.  I was using recycled wood.

We then drove to Fool Creek.  The purpose of the trip was to see the Hemp operation.  Fool Creek was further south of Oak City than we thought.  We found the place.  The house had been remodeled some.  Richard Johnson, our soon,  lived there for a short time while he worked.   In back of the house there was thirty acres of hemp plants. 

There had been many fires there that burned on both sides of the road and up the mountains.  We then drove back to Oak City.  When we got there we drove up and the streets.  There were a lot of new homes and many of the were very big.

We got home it was time for lunch.  After lunch I worked more on the stacking stools.  Later I drove to Fillmore for some medication and went to Roper's for five firing strips.  It rained quite hard on the way home, and the ground seems to be quite wet.  I needed them to be able to finish the stools.  I got all of the parts cut and trimmed the legs to the right diameter.  I cut the legs to the same length of about seventeen inches.

Not a good picture.  My phone moved slightly when touched the shutter button.  The last project for the day was planting zucchini plants.  The seeds I ordered arrived today.  I planted 36 zucchini seed in six six packs and covered them with wet burlap.

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Tomatoes, Potatos, & bees

Saturday morning, Sunday, and Monday.    Only thing on Sunday was picking a few cucumbers.  In a sense it like milking cows.  It has to be done every day of the week.
Saturday Morning:  Carol wanted baked potatoes for Sunday dinner.  There are some vines at the end of the row that is being eaten by grasshoppers.  The leaves are gone.  I dug then up.

During the night the deer came in and ate most of our watermelons.

I put tomato cages on most of the melons to keep the deer from eating them.

I put a smaller cage on a uneaten watermelon.

Here is were the deer have eaten the sweet potato vines.

 I made this trap for yellow jackets.  There is a large wasp in there that I haven't ever seen before.

 The yellow jackets eating the plums on our plum tree.

The humming bird feed was empty.  Carol filled it and I hung it with a long wire.  The yellow jackets have been eating the sugar water.  I put it down low so I could vacuum the yellow jackets.  Our cats might be able to grab a humming being so low.  This afternoon I shortened the wire so that it is way out of  the cat's reach but in easy reach of the vacumn.

Picked our first zucchini today.

Another photo of more deer lunch.

I picked to buckets of tomatoes for one of our neighbors.  They are not all yellow.  The Lemon Boy tomatoes are thin skinned and are on top.

I put some spoiled plums in this large quart bottle.  It attacked a lot of yellow jackets.  I put a lid on the bottle and put it in the freezer.  It killed the yellow jackets.  I put it back under the plum tree.  Hope to get some more jackets.

I watched several videos yesterday on how some made a push stick.  The push stick keeps my hand away from the saw blade.    Here it is laying on the driveway.

Here it is standing on the driveway.

Here it is standing on the table saw.  There is a heel on the back end that hooks the piece of wood being cut.

I was going to spray weeds this afternoon, but there was so much puncher vine with seeds that I decided to dig it out.  It was so rocky that I couldn't dig the up.  I got a small tool and got on my hands and knees dug up a bucket full.  

I got most of them and I will get the rest a little later.  The were many ripe seeds and spraying them would kill them but the seeds would still be there.


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Beets, CSA bucket, & Trap

Watched the news until eight and then went out after the Detroit Red Beets.  I started on the east end by pulling up the beets.  I threw them in the isle between the eggplants and the cucumbers where the big tub for the beets was ready.   I worked both ends of the beets and beets were up and down their row.

I got the wheelbarrow and filled it up.  I put the beets in the black tub and dumped them in the wheelbarrow.  I pushed the wheelbarrow out the west door to the patio.

Here I put the beet in my left and twisted and pulled the tops off with my right hand.  I dropped the beets into a bucket and with my right hand I grabbed another beet.  I continued doing this until I had topped all the beets.

I stopped working with the beets and picked cucumbers.  All the cucumbers are burpless and all are green.  One cucumber was yellow.  I think that for some reason it is an albino fruit.

It looks kind of strange with the green ones.

I had a sprayer on the garden hose and sprayed the beets with a good water pressure which washed away all the dirt.   The beets filled two five gallon buckets.

I wrapped the best cucumber with plastic wrap and they are in the fridge in the garage.  Those that were smaller or were bent Carol took to the post office.

I also picked a bunch of eggplants.

John Dennis was going to get the beets at 8:30 this morning.  He didn't come.  I called his wife she was going to tell him.  There was a knock on the door while I was having lunch.  It was him and I had just finished cleaning the beets.  He backed his truck into our driveway.  He wasn't able to pickle the beets until Monday afternoon.  I told him that I would put them in my cooler.  There was enough room in the cooler for both buckets and the ice packs.  He will pick them up sometime Monday.

One of the zucchini plants is struggling.  Yesterday it was wilted to the ground.  I watered well.  This morning it was looking  good.  By this afternoon it was wilted  to the ground.  It had some squash bugs last week.  I killed all of them.

I filled the CSA bucket with veggies and took it to Fillmore.  I gave it to Kim Christensen at the bank.

A lot of yellow jackets are in the board on the trap is to keep the wire cone tight on the bucket.  In the bottom of the cone is a cotton glove to cover the hole in the cone so the yellow jacket from escaping.

I better idea.  The them clips holds the wire cone tight to the bucket.

Some of the yellow jackets are crawling on the sides of the bucket.

Here is a better view.

I put the sucking end of a vacuum cleaner into the bucket on top of the cone.  Some yellow jackets were sucked in.


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