Preparing for Tomorrow & A Little More Planting

 We worked for several hours this morning making more Corn Puff snacks.  We did two batches.  I forgot to take pictures.  We then made a large pot of Taco soup.  No pictures of this either.  In the morning we are going to Eagle Mountain for a family Christmas dinner.  The Corn Puff snacks and Taco soup is for this dinner.

This afternoon I did more paper shredding and planted more lettuce and kale.  

 

I took another picture of the kohlrabi.  The chickens at most of it and left a skeleton.


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today

A daily ritual is to shred papers.  I did that until the shredder got too hot and shut off.  I came back later and did more shredding, and then a couple more times.  I may mention this in the next posting, but not how many times I shredded.

I have a lot of lettuce plants that are ready to be transplanted.  There is not room in house two to transplant all of them.  I am considering house six. They will not be heated in house six. 

 I transplanted fifteen sweet corn plants on the north end of bed six.

The geranium plants are doing well.  The true leaves are beginning to grow. They seem to change every day.

I have what I call a rough finish of the shredder table.  I did some sanding and counter sinking  the screws.

The bench in the above picture is upside down to show the rails look from the under side.

This shows how the 1x2 furring strip board are glued together to make a strong table leg.  This same concept can be used in benches and larger tables.

The table is laying on its side to show how the legs are attached to the rails.

 We passed out the rest of the Carmel puffs today.  Going to make another batch tomorrow.

We make them with the corn pops.

I have been watering these hot pepper plants since last May.  No one is using them, so I pulled them up/

They really have quite a root system.

 I started another wire for the tomato plants.  It is easy to pull them tight with the turnbuckle.  I can also tighten the "J" bolt.

 I decided a couple of days ago to blow off the leaves that are on the lawn.  There is a couple of small clumps of snow.  All of my extension cords are being used for the Christmas lights.  I found a couple that were pretty twisted.

 I blew the leaves on the east lawn to both sides.  They were pretty wet and took more effort to move them, but with the help of three extension cords I was able to get it done.

I did the same on the south lawn.

This the winter look of the Perityle stansbury, Rock Daisy.

kohlrabi was eaten by the chickens.  They really love them.  They peck and peck cleaned out the interior of the vegetable.  Picture below show more of the interior, but is pretty fuzzy.

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Transplanted Corn and Lettuce

One of the car headlight burned out last night on the way to the temple.  I compared prices at Amazon and at Murdock Hyundai.  I first thought that I would order the lights and replace them myself.  Carol thought that I should go to Dearden's in Fillmore.  I followed her advice.  They fixed in for about $40.

Our chickens are having a difficult time.  The timer clock hasn't been working properly.  One time the light was on during the day.  Another time is was one when I got up at four in the morning.  I thought that I might need a new clock.  I looked on line and found some good timers at Amazon at a good price.  If the lights to come on at the right time in the morning, I will order a pair of times with free shipping.

I worked on the small table part of the morning.  It turned out to be a unique design.  I can easily make a part lists and put it together much faster.

I finished the table for the paper shredder in a rough sort of way.  I made the top for it out of a couple of piece of old plywood.  I wanted to see if it were the right height and the right table size.  I shredded a lot of papers.  Tomorrow I want to do some finish work on it. Sanding and staining.

I planted more sweet corn.  Two seeds per cell.  I bumped one six packs and tipped it and that knocked most of the seeds out, but not all the soil.  I put them back in, and some of the cells may have more than two and there may be some that have only one or nonel

The lettuce, the three six packs of corn seed and some geraniums.  Some are getting their first true leaves.

Not Much Today

Worked in the small shredder table about one hour.  The legs are nearly finished.  I drove a screw in a leg into the rail.  The screw was to close to the edge of the leg and split part of the rail.  I put some glue on it and clamped it.  It will be there all night and hope to have it finished tomorrow.

One of the headlights on our car burned out this morning while driving to the temple.  I made an appointment at Dearden's to have it fixed, but I believe that I will be able to fixt it.


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Sweet Corn is Growing

We drove to Fillmore for groceries and to deposit a CSA check.

This is how my workbench looked this morning.

This is how it looked when I stopped working in the garage.  I am making a small table for the shredder.  I designed it to be built the same way as our antique milk safe.  It didn't work out that way.  I made mistake after mistake.  I made screw holes in the wrong place.  I screwed and glued the rails in the wrong place.  I had to take them apart.  As I left the garage, I finally got it figured out.

I did some serious cleaning in house two.  The above bench is ready for more plants.

I dug up a large beet last week.  It was in the house on top of the counter.  I cooked a little bit of it and it was pretty tough.  I planted back in house two, but in a raised bed.  I am hopping it will grow leaves and stems for harvesting.

I raked some leaves Saturday morning.

Here is a kohlrabi that was old and tough.  I gave it two the chickens.  They ate the leaves and the tender kohlrabi pups.

We have frequent visits by deer.  The lay down and watch me everywhere I go.

Deer in our yard Saturday morning.  I can walk around the yard and they just watch me.  If I walk towards them they get up and move.

I shredded a lot of papers this morning.  The shredder gets plugged up and I discovered over a couple of days, that if I pushed the button two have it run backwards, I can shred a lot of papers without it plugging.

The sweet corn is tasseling, there are some ears showing are barely showing, but the silk is along way off.


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Clean Garage & House Two

The tub facet is partially plugged with calcium salts.  When the water is turned on, some comes out the shower which is not wanted when have a bath.  With a large pipe wrench, I took off the corroded one and drove to Fillmore and stopped at Ropers for a new facet.

I screwed on the new facet as far as I could without a wrench.   I then wrapped it with duck tape.  I did not want to scratch the facet.  I was able to get it quite tight.  I pulled off the tape.

I removed most of the trays and dead plant that were on the heating bench to make room for the more trays of plants that had germinated and didn't need the heat anymore.

The above photo is an expanded view of the heating bench.

I watered the strawberry plants that were in house six.  This is the first time that I have watered them since bringing them inside over a month ago.

The was so much junk on my workbench in the garage that I could not use it as a place to work.  Many of the things there I put away.  If needed they are in my large tool box.

The top of the table saw was covered with more stuff.  a lot of scraps of wood.  There is a box for the wood under the left side of the saw.


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Transplanted the Blue Lake Pole Beans

Some friends of ours, the Richardsons, needed some cucumbers.

I picked four nice ones that were in house two.  They are 12 to 14 inches long.  

We drove to Fillmore for a few groceries this morning.  

I planted Blue Lake Pole beans several months ago.  They are large enough with a good root structure to transplant into raised be #1.

I made some holes with the dibbler.  It is hard to see the black holes in the black soil.  The red arrow points to two of them.

The hole and the bean plug are mate perfectly.  There are six cells in the six pack.  Some insect of slug ate off the leaves of one of them.  Hence, only five plants.  They will climb the twine in back of them.

I dug up the largest leek that I have ever grown.  It is laying on the 1206 tray which is 20 inches long.  I cut off the roots and soil.

I cut off the top and cleaned it up.

I shredded more papers this afternoon.  Raised bed #3 is completely covered with shredded papers.

I harvest some Italian parsley.  It has a nice flavor.

We had a little snow around twelve today.


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