New Stools

 I started a short stool yesterday.  I worked part of the morning in the garage.

I made these two stools that should make it easier for Carol to get into bed when she gets home after her knee operation.

I made the larger one first.  After placing it by the bed I could see that it was to tall to for her to stand on it.  

The smaller one is about half the size of the bigger one.   It is built differently than the larger one and was much faster to make.

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Moved Snow and Ice

 News, breakfast and more news this morning.  

Today is Veterans Day.   I got the flag and put on my boots and waded through the snow to post the flag.  I took five or six pictures to get one with the flag waving in the wind.   

Carol wanted the front sidewalk cleaned.  I got it done, but it took several shovels to do it.

I removed more snow and ice of the driveway.  Most was off the left side at the end of the driveway.

Dustin Smith was working in house six.  He was transplanting small hem plants.  Most were on the west side of house two.

A couple of cats were under part of my bedroom sunning them se.  Dusty was looking one and t one eye, the other cat was lying on her back.  

The patio was covered with snow and ice.  I tried moving it this morning by it was frozen.  I went back in the afternoon when the sun was shining on it.  It will be a dry spot for the cats to lay in the sun.

I worked on the driveway this afternoon and move the ice off the east side of the driveway.  We can now back the car up without running over an snow.

I took this picture of our front yard from the road.

At the end of the day, I started to build and other stool with short legs.  Carol is having knee replacement surgery.  She will need several short stools to stand on so she can get in bed.  Her bed is quite high.

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Burrrr! it is Cold

 After the morning activities I went to the garage to finish the pan lid project.  I found a two grabber screws and finished the device.   A picture showing it installed is later.

I walked out to house two, to see if every thing was okay.  It was.  The snow had melted of the hoops or bows of house four, five, and six.  So I got the above photo.  It has been cold all day. I walked out to see if greenhouse two was okay.  

I made a wide path from the back door of the garage through then snow to get to the hen shelter.  I shoveled the snow away the east and two the south.  I then threw out some hen scratch and put out a dish of laying pellets.  

It is a rack on the cupboard door.  The lid of one of the pots is always in the way.  Now I hang it on the rack where it is out of the way.

There is a black spot near the center of the hardy pampas grass.  It is a pretty bird about the same size of a sparrow.  The birds have been eating the pampas grass seeds.  Most of them are gone.

Somehow a small bird was stuck behind the back of this stool.  Part of it has been eaten away by a cat.  I think that the bird was perched on the back of the stool when a cat jumped for it pinning it to the wall.

I remove the stool and the bird stuck to the bricks showing some blood running down the brick wall.  Such a strange thing.  

The bird feeder has been empty for some time.   I filled the bird feeder and it wasn't long before the birds found it.  They must communicate with each other. 

We are expecting Richard to stay with us after his operation for, I don't know how long.  We went to Fillmore to get a supply of groceries.  The Schwan guy also came today.  We have a good supply of food.  

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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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