33F and partly cloudy @ 12:30, heading up to a high of 36F for the day.
Looked out the master bedroom window a few minutes ago, big hawk was on the ground back at the hopper feeder with a squirrel. He flew off ... without the squirrel. Guess I startled him. Woman said he came back after that but flew off again without the squirrel when she looked. Hope he takes it eventually.
Got ready in plenty of time for the trip to get the booster yesterday. Even printed out my appointment info with the confirmation code after digging out my proof of vaccination cards. Knew the van was low on diesel, so swung by the big new BellStore down in Canal Fulton to put some in the tank. After that I headed off towards Canton for the appointment. Got better than halfway there and realized I had forgotten to grab my cards for the previous vaccinations. Driving back to the house it became apparent there was no way I was going to be able to make it back to pick up the cards and still make the appointment. Tried to call them and let them know I wasn't going to be able to make it but couldn't get through. So I consigned myself to having to make another appointment.
After that I took the Cub and various tools around back and worked on the new planting bed some. Got the leaves blown off with the Stihl BG56 and then raked the areas where we had planted bulbs so that it was smooth. Still have a little more work to do on that, probably tomorrow when it's warmer, calling for a high of 49F.
Ran over the leaves which were now on the lawn with the Cub and ground those up.
Recorded all the planting locations of the day lilies for labels.
Took down the old squirrel feeder and brought it in for a little tune up.
Took cleaned deer feeder out and put it up back at the back of the yard and put about a gallon of deer corn on the ground.
Took plants down into the basement where it's cooler, still need to get the bulbs taken down.
Noticed bucket on Kubota was rolled back and holding some water so I started it up and raised the loader and rolled the bucket forward so it would drain.
Headed up to shop to try and locate my red Dykem Brite-Mark paint pen to use for marking plant labels. Took around a 1/2 hour but I finally found it ... once I thought to look in the cup that hold the marking implements. Looks like the tip is probably going to be too wide though.
At that point my feet were pretty much frozen and it was getting dark so I came back on down to the house.
Wasn't long after that that The Woman called to let me know she was on her way home. We opted to go with take-out from the local Chinese place for dinner, which is right on the way, quick, and usually pretty good. I tried their Singapore Mei Fun for the first time (along with some Hot-n-Sour soup) and it was very good, will be ordering that one again.
Got a nice email back on the missing items on the plant order saying she would let the folks in the warehouse know and have them ship out the items asap ...
Agenda for today includes refilling the hopper feeder and running out to some papers notarized.
Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day.
