Snow

I was up early, showered, and read  Ether 8 from read the Book of Mormon.  Carol got up and told me that it had snowed.  Looking out it had snowed a lot.  Nine inches on the lawn.

The red bud tree is draped with the fluffy white snow.

Towards the green houses.  You can barely see the brown gabled end of house four at the right.

The bows and pipes are covered with snow.  It is a greenhouse skeleton.  

A wheelbarrow is covered with snow between house three and house two.   The heat in house two is melting the show.

The poly has pulled apart along the ridge of house three.  Below the tare there is about six inches of snow.

I took this picture from the north door of house three.  

I got four ears of corn out of the fridge in the garage.  I husked them and then boiled them for ten minutes.  One was two young.  I gave it to the chickens.  The big one on the right was from a different planting than the other three.  The taste was nearly like new corn. 

The before photo.  I opened the garage door and got this picture.  Looking north down the driveway to the house a cross the road. 

The after photo. 

I worked several hours pushing and shoveling off the snow to make a path wide enough for the car.  I went to the post office.  If I drive through the snow, the underside of the fenders get packed with snow.  When I park the car, it all melts off and water runs all over the garage.

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Mowed Leaves Again

 Watched three of my wood working channel seven shows this morning.  

As soon as my shows were over I added some oil to the lawn mower and started mowing leaves.  I filled the baskets numerous times.  It didn't take long to fill the baskets.  I did the back lawn and then the east lawn and then the front lawn.   The wind was blowing from the north west.  I would mow the east lawn going south.  I then turned around shut off the blade and drove to the north end and mowed going south.  It did that over and over until it was mowed.    I did it the same way on the west lawn.  Always moving going south. 

I piled all of the leaves on the compost pile.

I was mowing close to the lilac bushes and shoot latch hooked on the a lilac branch an broke it off.  I tried to fix it but looked like I wouldn't be able to.

The patio was covered with leaves.  I blew off the leaves before it would rain.    Carol and I took several bags of trash to the dump.  

The colored light had been turned on at house two.  I walked out for a closer look and walked in.  I could smell smoke;  There were a could of people smoking weed.

It turned cold and started to rain and got the driveway and road pretty wet

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Started Tractor

 I went over to the greenhouses and got the wheelbarrow.  It was full of compost, so I dumped it on the compost pile.  I filled it three times from my compost pile, and spread it on the garden.  I had to take the wheelbarrow back.  I decided to start the tractor.  It has been setting there most of the summer and of course the battery was dead.

I hooked the battery charger to the battery and turned it on.  I set the timer on my phone for one hour.  I then prepared the garden for the tractor.   

The above photo is a reminder of what I did.  Should have taken more photos.   There were conduit driven into the ground.  I had to move them to be out of the way of the tractor.   I dug around each of them and filled the hole with water.  I had to fill my sprinkler can several times.  After they soaked for awhile I used vice grip pliers to pull each conduit pipe out of the ground.

They used the tractor at the nursery for awhile I then used it some.  I was able to fill the bucket four of five times, but I could hardly make the tractor move.  I was barely able to make the tractor go.  I then drove the tractor backwards to the nursery.  It took me painfully long to drive a half block,

I did more cleaning in the garden.  

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Clean-up 2

I was working in the garden most of the day.  Sometimes the clean-up took me to the garage.

A fan was put in the west end of house four.  Earlier they put a fan in the west end of house five.

I made a lot of welded wire tunnels during the summer.  They kept the deer from eating some of the plants.  They are stacked by the trailer until next year.  

This is another group of wire tunnels.  The tunnels made out of concrete reinforcement wire are larger but harder to see.  

Back in the corner of the south garden is a pile of old lumber.  There were several plywood I beams in that pile of wood.  They had been there for over twenty years and much of them were rotted. I cut them into eight foot lengths.  I took them to the garage and cut away the the rotted wood.  I then had eight, eight foot posts.  The above photo shows the rotted material that I cut away

There are three foot dill plants all over the garden.  It took me over an hour to dig them out.  I also  cleaned rhubarb, cucumber plants, and bean plants away.  Most of it was put on the compost pile.

The runner beans did not produce and beans except for one pod which had three immature beans in it.

It was quite late when I let the two hen out.   They wandered around the back lawn and then went back into the hen house for the night.

This Carol at the Book Barn getting a couple of books to read.  She got three books.  We then drove around town a little before we went home.  

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Mowing Lawn

 Results of the election were on TV all day long.  It looks as if Joe Biden will become the next president of USA.  We drove to Fillmore to deposit a check and make a house payment.   We also bought some groceries. 

There are three strips of weed barrier fabric.  They were used to protect the Blue Lake bush beans from being eaten by deer that visited our garden every night.  I folded them up and will use them again next spring.

This afternoon I mowed the lawn.  There was a little grass cut and the rest was leaves.  It didn't take long to fill the bags with leaves.  I dumped the grass and dumped quite a few more times.  This may be the last time I mow the lawn this year.  There are still a lot of leave hanging on the trees.  We are expecting snow the first of next week.

It was really dusty because of the the dry leaves and dry ground.  I parked the mower on the driveway and blew off all the dust.  Some grass clippings were wedged on the deck of the mower.  By the time I was finished the driveway was covered with grass dust and and dry grass clippings.  The above photo is the lawnmower in the shed.

A photo looking east on the back lawn.

This is looking east on the front lawn.

This is looking south on the east lawn.

The compost pile on the south side of the north garden.

Last, I ate to ears of corn that I picked nearly two months ago.  It tasted like it was picked this morning.

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Hospital in Nephi

I worked some in the garden.  I folded the three pieces of weed barrier that I used to protect the Blue Lake bush beans from the deer.

Halloween is over.  I removed the jar that contained the was and wick and brought them in the house.  Carol put them away.  I then took the pumpkins out to the compost pile one at a time.  I chose not to break them and feed them to the chicken, but left them decomposed in the compost pile.  

Carol wanted them back on the front porch with the face, facing toward the door.  I am glad that I didn't feed them to the chickens.

We drove to Fillmore to get some medication.  I got new bottle of my meds and Carol got one for her.  We filled the car with gas and then drove home.

We then drove the Central Utah Medical center in Nephi where Carol had an appointment with Dr. Holman at the hospital.  We checked in and did all of the paper work,  She then went to the imaging department for a whole bunch of X-rays.  Standing, front and back. left and right.  We the visited with the doctor where he explained the operation and and the risks.  He though that the operation would be successful.  The date is Monday morning, November 6

When we got home, I helped Shane and  some of his workers.  The frost broke a pipe in house six. I helped him with the gate valve.  He fixed the pipe, but could have done it better.  There was a piece that needed a cap on it.  I couldn't find a cap so I used and ell, a nipple and a plug.  He glued the ell and screwed on the nipple and cap.

He bought a couple of fans for the west end of house five.  His helper framed and opening that would fit the fan.  He made it the exact size as the fan.  The fan wouldn't fit.  He also, put the fan in with the motor on the outside which would be blowing air into house five.  We had to take out and install it from the inside of the greenhouse.  

With a big hammer and a prybar we were able to he it in.  The holes through the fan edge were to big for the grabber screws.  I got a couple of washers for the screws.  That helped to put the fan into place.

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Putting the Garden to Bed

Richard, our son, stopped by yesterday around eleven.  He had been down south and had to me in Nephi Monday morning by six.  Dinner was nearly ready.  He ate with us and stayed with us all night.

The first things this morning was to start the wash.  We washed the sheets and clothes.  We made the beds with the clean sheets.  That took most of the morning.

I got the battery weed eater and cut the peony plants to the ground.    There was a small elm tree about eighteen tall that I cut down and painted the stems with Kills All.

I dug up all of the old tomato plants in the south garden.

I threw away all of the weak Toma-hooks.  They are weak because they are made of twenty gage wire.  I saved the good ones for next year.   

I ate this sweet corn that has been in the fridge for nearly two months.  The husks were nearly dry.   They could have been a little riper, but they tasted really good.  I still have a dozen or so in the fridge.

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