Weeding in the Garden

Started the watering the east lawn.  I started at the north end of the east lawn and let it run for fifty minuets.   I moved it to the south once and then we went to Fillmore for our weekly shopping.  I made a house payment at Zions bank.  We then went to the Fillmore Market for some groceries.  We wore our masks.  There were a few more people in the store.  Not many were wearing masks.  We see some of the same people at eight each morning. 

I had two PVC part to take back to Ropers'.  I bought a ten inch circular blades,  tie wire, and a pair of safety glasses.    We then came home.  I watered the baskets and moved the hose to the south again. 

Our neighbor to the north of us had a backpack sprayer on his back.  He was spraying weeds.

I planned to spray weeds this morning, but forgot until I saw Wade Lemon, our neighbor.  I filled up the tank and started some where I park the truck.  I then worked down the west of the driveway.  There were a lot of small weeds and a lot of puncture vine.  The largest were about four inches long.

I did a little watering and a lot of weeding in the garden.  The sun was hot on my back.  I stopped and rested a couple of times. 

I took the old blade from the table saw and put it on the miter saw.  I took off some nuts and screws where I put one of the screws, I have now idea where it was.  I watched a video that showed how to change blades.  It said that I should not take off one of the nuts.  I already did.  I tried numerous times to put the parts back together.  Finally I got it all together and i was missing one small bolt.  I looked everywhere for it.  I found one that might work, but it was way to small.  I found another one that seemed to be the right size, but the thread didn't match the hole.  It called for a metric thread.

I went back to Ropers'.  Another customer was in the same section where the nuts and bolts were.  He helped me find the right cap bolt.  It cost forty-five cents.  I hurried home.  I changed the blade again with a plywood blade.  I put it back together.  I tried it out on a several different board and a short 2x4.  It made a really smooth cut. 

Earlier in the day Alisha Bills called and wanted to know what to do with her currant bush that was nearly laying on the ground.  I got a wooden stake, a sledge hammer, and some twine.  It was laying close to the ground because of the wind and it was heavy with currents.   I pounded in the stake and tied the bush to it..

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More Pruning

Taking the garbage to the dump was the first thing after breakfast that we did this morning. 

I was sitting on the patio chair this morning and watching a small pretty bird chirping from tree branch to tree branch.  I took the picture, but don't know if I got the bird or not.

The runner bean that I planted earlier this week are growing.  There is one in the center of this picture.

These yellow Foxtail lilies are really pretty this year.

The purple Alliums are found in various locations in our yard.

This morning I got everything in the garden watered.  I also did a lot of weeding.  The weeds missed a couple of days ago were small or tiny.  Today they were much larger.  I used a shovel and a stirrup hoe to take them out.

There are dead and broken limbs and branches in this seedless locust tree.  I attached a saw to and eight foot firing strip.  I climbed the stepladder and sawed away.   All I did was to scratch. the limb a little.

A couple of days ago a huge limb broke off the Flamingo Maple tree.  I leaned the ladder against the tree to cut off the remains of the limb.

The part that I cut off if a little above the crotch. 

This is the view after I cut of the piece.

My smart phone camera wouldn't work right.  I ended up with a selfie. 

Almost everyday we drive up and down the streets of Holden.  Today we were a little bit earlier.  As we turned on to the Woodhill road, this can of gas was laying on its side in the middle of the road.  I put it on the edge of the road and posted the photo and location on Face Book. 

This is a photo in full color, but to color because it is black and white.   It is covered with what is called blow sand.  Of course it is mostly white.  The cats use this place by the back porch as their bathroom.  Their are sandhills west of Holden where we got a bucket of sand.  I covered their potty place with the sand.  The cats now potty some where else.

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A Few More Trees

Yesterday we got the chrysanthemum that we put on the grave of Seria, our grand daughter.

The first thing that we done after breakfast we planted it in the kidney.

This bell end of the four inch sewer pipe was broken.  I got my hand saw and cut it off.

I dug weeds off and on all day long.  I dug out this large clump of grass.  It probably will come right back.

I dug the hole for the chrysanthemum right in the middle of a clump of daffodils.  I replanted them west of the driveway at the base of a pinion pine.  After watering them, I stuck in a short flag.  They should come up next spring.

There are strawberry plants growing with the beets.   I pulled some of the beets that  are growing around the strawberry plant.

I went back and pulled three beet plants for supper tonight.

Two more rooted sweet potato slips were planted by the cabbage plants.   There is one on the left side and the other one is on the right side.

My thickness planer dose not work so well.  I watched a You Tube video that showed a piece of plywood.  that didn't help much.  The wood is not smooth.

 The runner beans are starting to come up.  Can't see in the above picture.

This perennial salvia is looking really pretty.

 I cut down a few more trees.  I wanted to clean out the weeds.  But the trees were in the way.

I cut them into smaller pieces and loaded them on the truck.  We took them to the tree dump.

There are a lot of weed in the driveway where I park the car.  Carol has asked me to cut out the weeds.  I got the weed trimmer and started.  It would work only for a few seconds and the quit.  I started it again and again and again. 

I then got the lawn mower and mowed all of the weeds. 

 This is how it looks now.  The road is in the upper left hand corner.  It was pretty dusty.

I was a little upset when I saw some of my benches on the trailer.  I talked Shane.  He said that he would unload them.  After talking with Carol and taking another look at them, I didn't think that I would ever get to take them apart.

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One More Trip to the Dump

Carol asked me several days ago to pick some alliums and Fox Tail lilies.

So this morning I do it before I get busy with other things.  I also picked one stem of a Monarda flower.  She put it together in the arrangement.  She did a nice job.  The Alliums are a purple color and the Fox Tail lilies are yellow.  The Monarda is in the center and is the tallest. 

The tomato cuttings are looking fairly good.  They are hard to see in the photo.  It takes a trained eye to see them.

I pulled these radishes to take to the post office.  I got three sandwich bags.  Pill bugs have damaged most of them.

Yesterday the chain came off the chainsaw.  I put it on twice yesterday and that the chain going the wrong direction.  I got it right and the chain came of as soon as I started it.    This morning I watched the video again and got it right the first time.  I cut down some small trees yesterday and didn't have room on the truck.  I cut those into smaller pieces.

I turned the water on our new corn.  When I came back later, the water did not go very far.  I turned more water on it and forgot about it.  When I remembered, the water was all the way down to the end of the row.

The corn needs weeding.  There are a lot of red root and wild lettuce.  I hoed most of them out.   The row was quite wet so I decided to come back tomorrow and hoe out the rest of the weeds.  I did a lot of weeding this afternoon.  Much of the time was on my hands and knees with s small hoe.

After supper I harvested  rhubarb.  I cut them with scissors into small pieces.  Of course I washed them and cut off and bad ends.

I put them quart freezer bags.  Their is nearly two cups in each bag.

I neighbors to the south of us are building a large garage/shop.



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Tree to the Dump

It wasn't long after breakfast when I went out to cut up the huge limb that broke of the Flamingo Maple tree.  During the night I thought that I could use the electric chain saw.  I used it some for some miner trimming.  I hooked a couple of extension cords together and began to prune some of the smaller branches.

A microbrust caused a huge limb to break off the Flamingo maple tree.

I cut off the end of a large limb.  It all most fell on the water faucet.

We took to loads to the tree dump.  This is the second load.

This shows where the limb fell.  You can see the white of the tree.

I much closer look.

I took a two inch tee and bent it to fit on our four inch irrigation pipe.  I put a lot of calking on it to seal any leaks.  It did fit tight.  I put screw on both ends and on the sides that out of view.  I screwed them in tight.

Here is the finished piece.  When water is in the pipe, I can unscrew the cap for the water.  I runs to our grape and asparagus plants.  When finished I can replace the cap.

Here are the two trees that I cut down.  On the left is a small choke cherry tree.  On the right is a small black locust tree.

This electric chainsaw did a nice job.  It took three extension cords to reach the west edge of our garden.

I don't know what this tree is called, but it is pretty weedy and there are too many of them. 

I beet greens for supper.  The tasted good.  This is the first harvesting.

We planted some small Gladiator tomato plants.  The are small because I didn't get the seed early enough.  As soon as we got them planted I run water down the row.



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