59F and cloudy @ 10:45, calling for a high of around 63F for the day.
My eyelids were so heavy last night, I couldn't hold them open past 22:00 ...
Slept good though ...
Coffee tasting very good ... even though it's just the last of yesterday's warmed up ...
Got 36 cells planted with Detroit Dark Red sugar beet seeds first thing early yesterday morn ...
Then got all the seed trays watered that needed it.
Moved the sprouted Redbud seedlings outside onto the grill. By the end of the day they were looking like they had enjoyed it.
Then moved aquarium planter outside along with the 4 square pots that go in it. Need to shim up one end of that to level it out.
Got the new greenhouse moved in front of the sliding glass door in the dining room where the aquarium planter stand had been.
Moved the 2 seed trays with the peppers and tomatoes in them into the new greenhouse, put peppers on the top shelf where they would get the heat. Evidently they liked that as this morning a bunch more seeds had popped.
Somewhat repaired the pallet the Menards order was on, still have to replace one board.
Refilled hopper feeder + scattered some for the ground feeders. Still need to reset the pole for the tube feeders.
Created more potting mix using screened compost + perlite + vermiculite.
Started making a screen for the tow-behind spreader out of 1/2 hardware cloth. Got it cut to size and started forming to fit, still have some to do to finish it up.
Got a load of long branches and sapling trimmings hauled up to the brush pile in the compost wood lot.
Snagged one of the cedar "posts" on the way back and brought it down to the house and put it on the tall saw horses. The log is just under 13' long.
Tested out the new draw knife on that ... worked very good ...
Outside layers of the cedar log was pretty punky, an inch or so deep ... but the heartwood below that seemed solid.
Today might be the day to go to town on that, as it cloudy and the temps are cooler.
Took Cub up and got all the leaves and dead weeds raked off the screened compost pile. Did not spray that as it was a little too windy at the time I was up there. Grabbed the short steel sawhorses on my way back down.
Loaded large stepladder onto pallet forks along with four sections of 3/4 copper pipe and hauled all that around back with the Kubota. Got copper pipe stowed in the basement.
Used a couple of 2 x 4's to brace up the end of the deck where the support post had gotten bumped with the loader and had broken. Then broke off the support post and pulled it down.
Set up stepladder and pulled the nails out of the first joist with the crowbar, they came out pretty easily (end-nailed)
The other end is toe-nailed so once I swing that first joist over enough to clear the ledger board it rests on I should be able to pull it down.
But first I have to remove the decking that is nailed into it.
Woman worked on cleaning up back patio area while I was doing that.
Got all the seed heads cut off the rhubarb.
Got the 3 new t-posts for the last section of the vertical trellis pounded in with the new post pounder.
Man ... that thing worked slick ... and it was on sale !
Executive discussion and planning session while we were resting during that about relocating the rhubarb and where to place raised beds in the garden. Also some discussion on fencing.
Rhubarb can be relocated outside of fenced area since animals won't eat it (the leaves are poisonous)
Also determined flower beds don't need fenced - the deer and other critters aren't interested in the iris, daffodils, or peonies. They do nip off the tops of the day lilies when they first come up ... but tend to leave them alone after other browse becomes available.
After that was done Woman went back to patio clean up and I started spraying additional areas in the garden with glyphosate.
About the time I was finished with that the sun was getting low in the western sky, Woman had had enough and needed to go check the spaghetti sauce She started earlier.
So we gathered up all the tools and I headed around to the front and dropped the dump cart and then went out and re-mowed some of the front for about 20 minutes while She cooked the spaghetti noodles.
After dinner I ran the Cub over to the barn and got it put away as it was supposed to rain overnight, Woman went over and gave enioghbor lady's cat its nightly feeding.
Agenda for today:
Maybe work some trimming up and skinning that cedar post, although it's gotten darker and the temp has already fallen to 53F.
Maybe a trip up to the Menards in Cuyahoga Falls for those wire remesh panels.
There is a small planting bed at the southeast corner of the house that I want to remove. The PT timbers that make up the walls are rotten and I want to get it out of the way so I can get the Kubota up close to the deck in order to chuck the junk deck boards into the loader bucket for disposal.
But first I need to dig up and relocate a Stella D'Oro's and several hosta. We have a new planting bed/circle around a small oak on the west side that I covered with chopped up leaves last fall, at least some of the hosta can go there. Stella will probably get potted for the time being.
Amazon orders due in today, peppermint extract is on the truck and out for delivery, also new gardening tool for Woman not yet shipped ... but due in by 22:00.
Hope everyone is having a decent Friday ...
