Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Roy I am a pack rack too every time I get rid of something I need it the following week.

Glad you are feeling better

 

[Thomas]

Never consider myself packrat just a collector future antiques.

 

[wngsprd]

54, going to 74 and rain likely this evening...none here yesterday, Buppies. Sorry your bear is back.

Mostly, I didn't ask them when they'd finish, but likely another 3 to 4 months.

Kyle, I didn't know about photinia leaves...thanks for the heads up. Nice looking tomatoes. Always loved hiking and mountains...when I was on that cliff Thursday, I thought, this is what retirement means...and then wondered if I had a cabin there, could I be happy living there forever? Probably would get old with no electricity or running water, knowing how 5 days after the ice storm felt.

Pink lady slippers are blooming in the woods now, and the wild azalea still strong. Went back there yesterday on the tractor and found a dead tree over the path...I had the chainsaw with me and had just put the grapple back on, so made clean up fast. I was back there to pick up some heavy 8 ft logs I had cut in the winter...from a couple of dead trees-cedar and pine...used them to rebuild my target backstop...a simple set-up of 3 sides on the side of the slope, backfilled with sand from the creek. Ken, also found a dead leaner, but didn't have my chains and tow straps, so left it for next time. I don't envy your clean up, although I do envy your firewood supply.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning.
It’s already 50 with a high of 65 as the clear skies turn to rain later this afternoon.

Yesterday’s fountain maintenance went well, would have been easier to do it before we put it in in the first place though.
Puttered around after that then met a friend for lunch and an aerial tour of the countryside. We saw smoke in the distance, so went to see what it was, turned out to be an old closed sawmill’s wood yard. We got there before the fire engines, by the time it was under control they lost a few buildings as well.

After I got home, helped the wife with the alpaca chores, and it was so nice that we took a walk and sat on the bench at the pond and just watched and listened to the fountain and wildlife. After we walked back to the house, it was decided that unloading her SUV with her farmers market wares would be todays chore.

Son wants me to come down with the grapple this morning and move some fallen trees and help cut them up. After that and unloading from the farmers market, I’ve got no other plans.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 67˚F, cloudy heading to the mid 80s with a 20% chance of rain this afternoon.

Worked on the new trail yesterday removing pokies and tripsies (little cedar stumps on the path). It should be ready for the old people in a week after we mulch the trail.

Kyle glad the EGO was self healing. You must have the magic touch. The wiring under the battery compartment did have a bunch of grass and dirt in it which I cleaned up but it was still unresponsive. I was getting about 10 minutes use on the old batteries also before it decided to go into a coma. I knew you could fix it. Now you can put a new 5Ah battery on your Father's Day/Birthday/Christmas list. Ace Hardware and Lowe's are authorized dealers. If I remember right Giddings Ace hardware sometimes had a 10% off sale a bag of merchandise. That would be the time to buy this one unless EGO is on the excluded fine print. They do cost a lot but I wonder what hour mark is the break even point since you are using no gasoline or oil or plugs or air/gas filters.

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Gasoline is going back up from it's Easter low of $3.599 to $3.799 yesterday.

 

[deserteagle71]

I suppose that it is only appropriate that, on the 1st day of May, we have fresh snow halfway down the mountainsides....

The Jackson Mountains, 50 miles away but visible from my window, also have a fresh cover of snow.

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 50 going up to 73 and sunny!
Going out to do some less onerous tasks today, still tired from yesterdays 5+ hours of felling and bucking.
Will be a late night tonight as Dad is not arriving until at least 11pm.

Off to the kids team car wash in a bit. Truck can certainly use it.

BEF - great pictures - and you have done a great job with the landscaping and layout.
Wish I could get my son to do anything around the house. He will help, but I need to really really ask him

Kyle - That sounds like a painful exercise in tractor splitting for your friend. Hope not much else is found, did he at least get a price that allows this $ and still leaves him ahead?

Still need to mow the side lawns and trim out where the grass is growing in the planting areas, and spray the weeds , plant the garden and ............These dead ash trees are absorbing too much time! Wish I got the thumb sooner.

PopG- Oil change in the fountain, needs a new filter too? Must be a big fountain. Sad about the lumberyard fire, insurance and all it still takes time to recover. Do you ever use them ?

Stay safe and be well,

So this bird house is about 1 year old and completely destroyed due to being out in the elements.
A bird house that can only survive indoors, who would have thought.

 

[rswyan]

65F and cloudy @ 12:00, thunder boomers rolled through a couple of hours ago before I got up ... 0.18" in rain gauge so far for the day. Sun now making an attempt at an appearance, supposedly headed up to a high of 73F for the day.

Hopper feeder needs refilled, hear the mourning doves cooing.

Made the run down to Menards yesterday and picked up order, also placed/paid for the additional mulch order which I will pick up later. Searched for the one item they claimed to be out of and we could not find it, they will call when it comes in.

Stopped by the local hardware on the way back and picked up another two packets each of Burpee's Stringless Bush and Cherokee Yellow Wax Beans.

After I got back I unloaded the van and threw a pan of soil in the oven to sterilize. Then I started mowing down here around the house and got most of the west side done before it started spitting rain at me.

Didn't look like it was going to be much, so I started working on assembling the latest "acquisition" under the overhang of the garage. It's a "Scoot-N-Slide" rolling garden seat from Menards:

Got it all put together, but still need to tighten up some of the bolts. Looks like with the seat in the lowest position it will be perfect for me to easily bend over and reach the ground to work on things. Due to back issues I can cannot stand and bend over for any length of time, and kneeling isn't an option for the same reason.

When I was looking at similar products The Woman gave the "By all means, go ahead and get that if it will allow you to not have to bend over while standing" approval. She sat on it with the seat almost all the way up and wasn't impressed. Will need to have Her try it with the seat lowered. (She has very little trouble bending over and reaching the ground to work for extended periods of time ... I honestly don't see how She does it)

Once I had that together, I went back to mowing, finished up on the west side and got just about all of the back and east side done.

Found a place over in Indiana a while back that appeared to have even better prices on plants so the day before yesterday I went ahead placed an order, to give them a try. Ordered seeds for cauliflower, broccoli, some yellow tomatoes (which I love), cabbage, and vine peaches. Got another 25 Earliglow strawberry and 10 "King Kong" June-bearing strawberry plants, 20 more asparagus plants, and 6 more rhubarb plants.

On the flower end, 8 Shasta Daisies (looks like the deer got the one I picked up on closeout last year at Menards), and 6 Blue Barlow Double Columbine.

Plus an ounce of Catgrass seed for the kitties.

After filling the hopper feeder today, I'll probably work on planting more seeds. I have an ounce of French Marigold seed and an ounce+ of Zinnia seeds and a couple of 72-hole starter trays. Will probably hold off on the Zinnias for now, as being from Mexico they really like warm temps and having the Marigolds planted around will hopefully keep the chipmunks at bay.

Woman's dahlias continue to make progress - with 6 or 7 (of 10) up now:

Along with the banana tree and cucumber plants:

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Probably should move the cukes outside today to start hardening them off. Think there might be another one in the other tray I need to re-pot as well.

The Squeak just pulled the door open to the hall linen closet and headed in for a nap. Probably a good time to get started if I want to avoid excessive un-asked for "help" with planting ...

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday ...

 

[sodamo]

68°F and .49 inches rain and coming down. Thunder storm predicted.

May Day is Lei Day here in Hawaii

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great day

 

[rswyan]

I never thought about planting hostas around trees like that, I like it.

Thanks ... don't recall where I originally saw it, but I liked it too.

Tends to work out well if there's a decent amount of shade.

The hosta we removed from the west side of the shop got "full sun" and they were not thriving. They would look decent in the spring but by mid-summer they were looking pretty ugly.