59F with bright sunshine @ 11:15, heading up to a high of around 72F for the day.
Woman just left for a little shopping outing with a relative.
Made decent progress yesterday.
Got all the tomato plants moved outside yesterday. They seemed to do well, possibly because there was some high thin clouds. Moved them all back inside as there was frost warning last night.
They go back out today and probably won't come back in unless we get another frost warning.
Got leaves cleaned up off of planting ring around oak tree, 2 dump cart loads hauled up to compost pile:
Woman sprayed some of the hosta and day lilies with that peppermint extract/water mixture while I hauled the leaves up, emptying out the sprayer.
Noticed one of the volunteer redbuds that we had transplanted was blooming:
Refilled hopper feeder + plus scattered some for the ground feeders.
Mixed fungicide and loaded sprayer after Woman rinsed it out, got both peach trees sprayed.
Woman did some weeding around them before I sprayed.
Did a little testing of the curved draw knife while She was rinsing.
She also weeded around the 2 burning bushes and we got the cage put back up that the deer had knocked off around the one. It's about half the size of the other, due to the deer nibbling ...
After that She headed over to the northeast planting bed and started weeding it and I went back to the house and grabbed the full sprayer that had glyphosate in it and came back and started spraying the eastern side of the planting bed where the forsythia are going to go.
Fought with the sprayer, couldn't get the nozzle adjusted to put out anything but a single stream. Took nozzle off and some stringy goop that looked like snot came out. Once I cleared that, it was off to the races.
Emptied that one out and went back and got the other sprayer which was 1/4 full. Got forsythia bed about 2/3rds done (it's about 350' - 400' long)
Then sprayed around the 2 burning bushes, the Japanese ornamental cherry, the red maple, Nest Box No. 1, and the mealworm feeder.
Nest Box No. 2 now has bluebirds !
Went over to collect up the weeds She had pulled after that. She said the bed needed more mulch and commented that She thought it was helping with the weeds and made them easier to pull (Of course ...
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After that we knocked off, ran over to Maki House and picked up dinner.
After dinner, I headed out to the garage.
Sanded down handle for shovel on the belt sander so it fit.
Got both 1 gallon glyphosate sprayers refilled (making sure to run all the mix through coffee filters ...
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Emptied what was left in the fungicide sprayer out into a gallon milk jug, took about 1/2 gallon to do both peach trees.
And called it a day.
Woman's amaryllis is now blooming ... and it's a twofer !
Burning daylight, time to get cracking.
Hope everyone has a decent Friday ...
