New Radial Arm Saw Almost Finished

 Deer in the garden again.   I couldn't see any damage.  But most tracks on the west side.  I picked some veggies to take to the post office.  

Richard Darnell came over to help with the radial arm saw.  We were so busy with it that I forgot to take a few pictures as we went.  He was a great help.  The photo is the mostly finished stand.   After the braces were on we turned it upside down and put on the casters.  I got four casters last week at home depot.   I didn't check each one of them.  I wanted four swivel casters, but one of them didn't swivel.  I put it on anyway and pulled it back the the south end of the garage.  But it looks like it will be good.

The base has four legs and each leg has two braces.  The legs were holding the ninety degree angle.

This is what was left of the veggies at noon.  When I picked them up this evening most all of it was gone.

I took the other base/stand apart.  This is what was left.  I finished the job.  Some of the nails were really hard to pull out.

The rest of the afternoon found me cleaning the workbench.  I cleaned the floor.  The other bench and the table saw was also cleaned up sum.

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 We worked all morning making veggie juice.  We were so busy that I forgot to take pictures.  But inside pictures with my smart phone don't do to well.  I can't hold my phone still long enough the get a good picture.

I made it out to the garden.  There were a lot of deer tracks.    This shows some between the north and south garden.  

I took off most of the plums which were prunes a couple of days ago.  I got one quart this morning and another quart this afternoon.  

We start making our veggie juice before breakfast.  We juice all of the tomatoes and the other vegetable which take most of our working time.  It is all put in a big kettle and cooked until it begins to boil.  We let it boil for about thirty minutes.  while it is cooking we have breakfast.   After it is all cooked well we strain all of the solid parts.  Carol then puts into quart bottles.  We got ten quarts.  I thought that we would get a few more.  It is now in the pantry.

After lunch, I worked in the garage on the radial arm saw.  Still trying to build a base or platform for it.  I did make some pretty good progress. 

I drove to Fillmore for a piece OSB board.  They didn't have any.  

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Plums and Beans

The deer came into the garden last night.  There were tracks on the west side and none on the east side.  

I picked a nice punch of tomatoes.  Over half of them are large.  Some came from a volunteer which I almost dug up.

We are going to make veggie juice.  Bell peppers are used.  Our bell peppers have been huge.  We also put onions, celery, 

I picked a small bucket of plums.  They are getting ripe and tasting good.  I got out the dryer.  We cut them in half and took out the pit.  We use every shelf except one.  It may take several days to dry them.

Karen Bennett brought us a bunch of beans.  We weren't successful in growing our beans this year or las year.  We planted some late this summer and should have a bunch if it doesn't freeze and if we can keep the deer from eating them

I was pretty shaky on this picture.  Carol is snapping them and putting them in pint bottles. She could do three while I was doing only one.   

It took over and hour to snap them and a couple of hours to cook them in the pressure cooker.  There are two parts to the device that prevent the removal of the lid.  I came apart.  one is in the cooker and the other fell on the stove.  We got them out and put it back together.  That fixed the problem.   We got thirteen pints.

Carol washed the tomatoes.  They are setting on the counter and will be ready for tomorrow.  She also got the onions, celery and peppers ready.  We will get them cooking before we have breakfast.

Late this afternoon I worked on the stand for the radial arm saw.  I made the legs to long.  I cut nearly four inches of each leg and put on a couple of leg braces.

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Radial Arm Saw

 I went out to the garden and saw four deer.  Instead of going west over the fence, they ran to the east then turned north going east of the house.  When the got to the road they were nearly across main street.   

I began building a base or a device to hold the radial arm saw.  I had a two foot wide piece of 3/4 inch of old plywood.  I made the base to small.  I made another one that was two foot square.  I made four legs.  I tried to miter each on at 2 1/2 degrees.  That didn't work.  I ended up attaching a leg at each corner.  

I picked a half bucket of tomatoes.  

I got so busy building that I took no pictures.

Shopping in Utah County

 There were deer on the back lawn.  I hurried out to scare them away.  They took off running and jumped over the fence into Raymond's backyard.  They went so fast I couldn't count them.  But it looked like there was a dozen.  We had breakfast.  I looked for any deer damage to the plants.  I couldn't see any, but there were tracks all over and some poop in the yard.  I picked cucumbers.  We gave some to Ann next door and took the rest to Nyleen.  

We headed for Utah County.  Our first stop was Walmart,  Next stop was Sam's Club.  We then went to home depot where I wanted to get a strap tightener.  I couldn't find one but did find some casters.  I bought four for the radial arm saw stand.  The it was off to Linden.  I got a hair cut.  I asked Miles for a short cut.  He kept cutting.  I was in the chair for over forty-five minutes. We were there for about an hour.

On the way home we got gas at Costco.  We have been out of a chocolate mix.  We got two large containers of it.  We were home at three.  We had a late lunch.

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Frost Protection Take Down

 I started to put away all of the burlap and frost protection fabric. 

Our pomegranate tree has been laying covered on the ground for the last two day.  This morning I took off the covering and set it up straight.  I pounded the for guy wires in the ground.  The pomegranates are nearly ripe.  It took me the rest of the morning folding the burlap and white frost protection fabric,

I asked Richard Darnel to help me move the radial arm saw.  We put it outside next to the garage door.  

I put the material in greenhouse three.  I rolled the burlap first and put the white frost protection fabric on top of it.

The last thing of the day was to the reinstall the Deer Protection sprayers.  One in the north garden and one in the south garden.

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Breakdown Two Benches

Some frost this morning on the lawn and some freezing of some cucumber plants.  I couldn't look at all the plants because they were covered.   I picked cucumbers yesterday and took them to the post office this morning.  I finished my assignment for Annalee's eightieth birthday.  It was mailed today.  I worked some in the garage doing some cleaning.  We drove to Fillmore for medication, to make a house payment, and get some groceries.  

After lunch I took the two benches apart.  The were in house two.  Most of the 2x4's in the first one were redwood.  Redwood is light.  I have made some nice stools out of redwood.

The second one had the lathe snow fence on it.  I rolled it up.  the 2x4's made out of construction fir.  

There are a lot of PVC parts in house three.  I put them in different size nursery containers.  That took me several hours.  A job that needed to be done.   

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