Hanging Tomato Plants

It rained some during the night. The grass is really wet.  Soon after breakfast I picked some more asparagus.

These cacti plants have bloomed only for a couple of days.  They are on the decline.  I took them back to house two.

A few photos of the Oriental pair flowers are looking very pretty.

I hung tomato plants.

Dennis former owner of Fillmore feed bought some tubes and part of a tray this morning.

I put up a new over heat wire in house six

I sprayed a tank of weed killer

I dug weeds in the strawberry patch.

I ordered some plant seeds for Elisha this evening.


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Church and One Tradition

I picked more asparagus this morning and did some watering.  We had a breakfast of orange juice, eggs, bacon, toast  and cereal.  We also prepared potatoes and asparagus.  Carol pre-cooked the potatoes, so they would be ready after church.

The choir sang the closing hymn.  I missed the 9:30 practice.  The choir walked up to the choir seats.  There was not enough copies of the music for everyone.  I was sharing with the person at my right.  Then Skyler walked up and some on gave me their copy and I shared with Skyler.

After dinner we did the blue lip tradition.

There is a candy that has a blue covering it.  You moisten it with your tongue and wipe off the blue on your lips.  Skyler with the long arms was able to get all of us in the selfie.

A little later they gathered up all their things and drove home.

Easter, Eagle Mountain, & home

Saturday morning started with a bang.  We are going to Eagle Mountain to the home of Eric and April for an Easter barbeque.

This morning I walked out to the nursery and saw this deer in the west doorway of greenhouse four.  He walked out the east door and the turned to the north and walked between houses two and one.  This where I got this picture.  Now for a few pictures at Eric and April's house.

Quentin

Paityn or Hanna crawling in slide in the backyard.

Hanna ready to go down the slide.

Hanna and Paityn on the swings.

Paityn on the left with her hair blowing in the wind.  Hanna on the right with a more cautious swing.

Quinten strapped into the smaller swing seat.

On the way home we stopped for gas at Costcos on this busy Easter weekend.  There were a lot of cars lined up.  I thought, "do the ever run out of gas."  We got in what we would be the fastest line.  We waited and waited and waited some more.  There were customers waiting at the gas pumps, but now was pumping any gas.  We decided go between the to line and go into Costcos.  We did a little shopping.  there was a sign posted with the hand written words, "Closed"  I guess they run out of gas.

These Cactus type flowers are really beautiful.  To bad that they last only for a couple of days.

Lisa, Eric, Tai, Skyler, Chase, Dax and Britney, and Emi spent the evening with us.  Lisa and Eric hid plastic Easter eggs containing candy and some had money inside.

Britney and Tai with their Easter eggs. Each person was limited to only fifteen eggs.

Once in the house they opened the eggs for their candy and money.  There were coins, and bills with denomination of ones, fives, and tens.

Skyler hooked these empty eggs on Emi's hair.


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Under the Kitchen Sink

The first thing after breakfast and some of the news, I picked a nice bunch of asparagus, cleaned it up and put it in the fridge.

A couple of days ago I looked at the dahlias and some of them had new stem buds.  The above photo shows about six of them.

I dug holes and planted them.  I made some small sticks to show the locations of them.  I later watered them.

Carol had a small job for me.   She wanted me to clean under the sink.  The space under the sink was really bad.  Three or four years ago the water was leaking from the tap above.  I didn't know where it was leaking.  I fixed the leak and things dried up.  This morning remove all of the soaps, sponges, show polishing material.   I found some contact paper that I am sure that it was over thirty years old.  It had a marble pattern.  The photo shows the pattern.   I worked on it for over two hours.  I had enough time before lunch to spray on tank of weed killer.

While I was digging holes for the dahlias, I found asparagus plants in the same bed.  I dug them and transplanted with our other asparagus  plants.

Another photo.

The flowering pear is extremely beautiful today.  Flowers all over the place.

 I took the other cattle panel and put it next the other bows.  There will be four bows to gather for the growing of our pole beans.

The last thing was the same as the first thing of the day.  There was another nice bunch of asparagus cuttings.  We are have family with us on Easter Sunday.  It will be served for dinner.


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More Spraying & More Planting

After breakfast and a little news I checked our asparagus plants.  some were ready to be harvested.

Much warmer weather now.  The asparagus hasn't grown much because how cold it has been.  I picked a nice handful this morning.

I planted bunching onions and Detroit Red beets in 105 trays.  I cleaned out this old wading pool that we had for the ducks.  I filled it with one inch of water.  I then put the trays in the water so they get irrigated from the bottom.  I then put them on the bench on the west of house two.

I used a 1206 tray for a planting of sweet corn called peaches and cream.  there are three seeds in each cell.  I bottom watered these also.

All of the six packs look like this one.

I have a tray of celery which should have been transplanted months ago.  they were so root bound that I could hardly pull them out of the six pack.  I cut with a pair of scissors or tore of the roots with my fingers.

I cut a cross in the bottom of some of them.

I planted the celery next to the bunch onions.

I put the parsley in the raised bed between the strawberries and sweet corn.

A closer look at the Curl Leaf parsley.

There are a lot of grassy weeds by the beets that I planted several weeks ago.  The beets are not very thick.  I covered what few there was with small cups and sprayed the weeds with weed killer.

I sprayed weeds on the west side of our yard and those south of house six with three tanks of weed killer.  I then went home teaching.  When I got back I sprayed out another tank.  I feel like I am getting a little control over the weeds.

Emerson Lyman wanted me to prune his fruit trees.  When I got to his house, he was home.  I walked through his orchard of about eight trees.   They are in bad need of pruning.  I think I will do some thin pruning and then have him get an expert pruner next spring.

I got this picture just as the full moon was creeping up over the hill side east of our yard.


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Mower & Tall Grass

We went to Fillmore this morning for some groceries, to get a lawnmower and to make a deposit.

Yesterday, I started making a box for my seeds. I used glue and my nail gun which made it much easier to build.  It has been difficult to keep track of the seeds and move them from the house to the greenhouses and back.  I put all the tomato seeds in one place.  All the leafy seeds in one place, etc.

For lunch I made me a salad.  Everything in the salad is from our garden except the raisons.  I put in some peaches from our peach trees which were bottled last year.  I used the salsa that we bottled last year for the dressing.

I the geraniums in a tray with eight cells or compartments.  This way they will not be so close together.  I have 221 plants.  If I sold them all for a fair price, they would bring over $600.00.  They are really nice plants.  Some have buds.

When the sun comes out from behind a cloud the temperature inside of house two is over 100 degrees.  It is too hot to work in there very long.  I uses a pallet on top of four stack of bricks with two in each stack.  The pallet is against the outside north door.  I go inside to fill a tray with soil, and do the planting outside.  It is at the right height for so I  don't have to do any bending over.  The seed box is on top where it is handy to find the needed seeds.

While I was doing some planting the lawnmower from Penny's arrived.  It to took me over two hours to mow the lawn.  The grass was pretty tall and in some areas a lot of leaves.    By the time was had finished mowing, I was pretty comfortable with the speed, throttle, reverse, and dumping the grass catcher.   I think I can mow faster the next time.

I planted one tray with two different kinds of cucumbers.  Burpless #26 and Sweet Success.  I have a clear tray which is used to cover a germination tray to prevent it from drying out.  I put about a half inch of water in it and set the germination tray in it.  The irrigation will be from the bottom.


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Siblings Togather Again

This morning we drove to Orem, Utah, for lunch with my two brothers and three sisters and their spouses.  On the way up we stopped at Costco's, then Sam's Club, and then at Home Depot, and then at Deseret Bookstore.   By then it was time for lunch at the Chuck-O-Rama in Orem.

Marylin Johnson, Paul Johnson, Ray Johnson, Mary Anne Johnson, Gary Church, Annalee Church, Carol Johnson, Betsy Fredrickson, Karla Corry and Jim Corry.

A fuzzy snap shot.

Betsy Fredrickson, Mary Anne Johnson, Ray Johnson, Marylin Johnson, Paul Johnson, Annalee Church, Gary Church, Carol Johnson, Merrill Johnson, Karla Corry, and Jim Corry.

On the way home we stopped at Wal Mart to get a few Easter things.

When I got home I began working in the greenhouse.  I planted a long row of tomato plants. I needed a couple more plants so I used five of the smallest that is left.  These were in a six pack.

I had a whole bunch that were in quart bottles which were rooted.  These are in the same row and are eighteen inches apart.  I dug the holes with a trenching shovel.

Here is the row looking to the west.

The grape plants that I planted out a couple of weeks ago are really looking tough.  I ran water down the row to give them another drink.  I hasn't warmed up enough for any bud swelling.  The ones that I planted were in house two and well leafed out.  I think that they will be doing better by the middle of May.

I cut out a lot of weeds while waiting for the water run down the grape row.


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