Good morning!!!!

   / Good morning!!!! #210,901  
79F and partly cloudy @ 13:30, calling for a high of 80F for the day. Nearby LWS reports that the low this morning was 47.1F.

Local Weather Babe announced last night that CAK - which about 6 miles away - set a new record for the lowest total amount of precipitation for the entire month of August:

0.19"

It's also a new record for the lowest total amount of precipitation for ANY month since records have been being kept @ CAK ... :oops:

Kinda surprising that things are as green as they are here.

Next chance for rain is late Wednesday into Thursday.

Put Rocky Jr. in the bucket of the Kubota first thing yesterday and took him up to the compost/woodlot for the buzzards.

After that it was a fairly leisurely day, mostly spent on trimming that pine tree by the northwest planting bed. Warm but very pleasant with a breeze.

Decided to take off another level of low branches. Should be able to get under it now without getting poked in the head.

Couple of loads of trimmings loaded and hauled up to the burn pile. Much time spent with various implements of destruction nipping off little branches that were hanging down from other branches that were not being removed.

Got all the larger wood loaded into the bucket, hoping I can get rid of that to the neighbor who sometimes has a fire in his burn pit in the evenings.

Deer left several large "presents" underneath that tree, Woman was amazed when I told Her it was deer what done it.

She mostly worked on cleaning up in front of and inside the garage.

After I finished the trimming I got a large welded wire cage around 4' tall put around the Japanese ornamental out front and secured with a pair of 5' rebar stakes. Also tied off the tree to one stake as it was growing at angle. Something has been eating the leaves on it so I went back to the house and grabbed the sprayer that was loaded with Sevin and gave it a good spraying.

After that I took the Stihl FS66 up to where we had planted the tulip tree and trimmed down all the weeds growing there.

Then sprayed that with glyphosate, along with spray edging around the 2 burning bushes, the little peach tree, the Japanese ornamental, and the Red Maple. Also sprayed around the drain outlet up in the front.

Reloaded the 12 gauge with No. 8 shells when I came in.

Very slow getting rolling this morning, was up until around 04:00.

On the agenda for today:

Dole out another week's worth of meds.

Pay a bill that is coming due.

Re-drill that planting hole where the tulip tree was. Once that's done should be able to remove the 24" auger and put the 12" bit on.

Probably get back to watering the garden, since it's been a couple of days since it's had anything.

Need to check and see if anything needs harvested.

Garbage and recyclables need to go up to the cans at the road, since Trash Day was delayed one day due to the holiday.

Beyond that see what else comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday ... (y)
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,902  
spent the afternoon mowing the tree planting up at the highway. This part is restricted to only mowing after August 15 so this is first time this year. 24 inch plus grass and small bushes and now a lot of stilt grass as well. The tractor will not fit between the trees and branches so using the Zero Turn raising it to 4 and 5 inches and higher on a few occasions
But it performed great. Will let the grass rot down a bit and do it again before winter idea is to not have any piles of grass that voles can hide in

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   / Good morning!!!! #210,903  
72F blue sky.
stream are dry brooks almost dry sure could use couple days of soaking. 🤞

Good day at work afternoon just putter and breaks to enjoy the weather. ;)

Sibling bears show up last evening it's interesting them care and share for each other,hope they return this evening.

Enjoy your evening all/
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,904  
spent the day planning a trip. I keep changing it. Too many variables and too many places i want to see. Wife got on me awhile back about planning trips to places I want to see. I said, You haven't been there if I haven't been there, so it will be new to you also. If I waited for her to plan a trip, we wouldn't go anywhere. Plan is to see Dad, then go west a little bit, then head back and see Dad again on the way back. How far we go depends on how Dad is doing.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #210,905  
Good (Wednesday) morning. Overnight Low of 10.1C and it's presently 15.2C, mostly cloudy & breezy. There was 0.6mm in the gauge @0900 + a bit of moisture since.

It's 'into town' day for groceries followed by a quick bit of Tractor Fun later this arvo as the "Mad Agisting Horse Woman" has requested a round of hay delivery.

That's about it, take care all.

headed out to see what kind of trouble I can get into
something dangerous and mysterious...like deadheading roses. :)
Good luck, Drew. I know that you'll wear the appropriate Hi-Vis PPE and carry your mobile phone... unless this calls for an EPIRB.
 

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