Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Good afternoon 73
Got knee done this morning
Still in recovery, hope to get home later
But legs still pretty numb after epidural

Good news. Hope you get home today.

 

[rswyan]

48F and clear @ 15:00, supposed to hit a high of 52F, not sure if we will make it.

Spent yesterday afternoon planting more bulbs. Got all the Tete-A-Tete daffodil bulbs (around 50) planted as well as the last of the Mixed Daffodils For Naturalizing (another 10 or so)

Still have around 60 or so Canaliculatus Daffodil bulbs to go.

Then it will be on to the Crocus (125 bulbs), Blue Grape Hyacinth (200), White Grape Hyacinth (50), and finally the Striped Squill (100), weather permitting. Surprising the amount of bulbs one can fit into a fairly small area.

No more evidence of anyone digging at the irises ...

Put out around a gallon of whole corn for the deer while I was out there. Need to refill hopper feeder today, possibly tube feeders as well.

Took the trash up to the can at the road with the Cub and the dump cart earlier yesterday and grabbed the mail while I was up there.

Day before I took the recycles up to the can at the road then took a tote up in the dump cart and filled it with screened compost, as The Woman was wanting some potting soil. Also rescued a trash can lid out of the woods while I was up there. Got that cleaned off, will use for the can that holds the peat moss.

Got back down to the house and realized I hadn't considered the weight of wet screened compost, so I had to split that in half, and put half of it in a second tote.

Put the new bale of peat moss into a garbage can and transferred what was left into the two storage totes I put the screened compost in and mixed it in.

Knocked the dirt off the plastic planting pots last night, in preparation for cleaning off the potting bench and putting those away.

I extracted the remnant of the broken/rotted handle out of the large, square-nose aluminum shovel (treasure) I got from the neighbor day before yesterday. Had a new handle in inventory that fit, just needed a little trimmed off the end which I did. Ordered some rivets to pin it on on the Menards order. Need to clean up the edge with the grinder. Will make a good shovel for loose material.

Also ordered another handle for the spare pitchfork head, along with three pieces of flue pipe for the woodburner in the basement, more driveway markers (on sale, 50% off) plus a few other items.

Also worked on sanding the handle for the steel square-nose shovel. It will get the BLO/beeswax treatment here shortly. Really like how that worked out on the sledge hammer, it's probably about impervious to moisture at this point and it really hardened up well ... not sticky at all.

Got the exterior of the small bird roost box sanded and stained day before yesterday, used Minwax English Walnut which is fairly dark ... should help with heat gain during the day if there is any sun. Have to install the front door after I trim it up a little to get a good seal. Also need to stain the mounting plate and attach it, along with installing screen on the back interior wall (for woodpeckers)

The Woman reported earlier that the Big Orange Kitty had an episode the other morning where he fell down and was not able to stand/get back up for several minutes, thinks he may have had a stroke. Possible he may have eaten a houseplant that made him sick. Will monitor but he seems fine now.

Both the older cats are starting to have some issues getting around. They are better than 16 years old if memory serves.

Worked until midnight in the garage last night cleaning up.

This afternoon I'll moving some tools back up to the shop and get more stuff stowed away, plus moving another planter inside that still has some stuff in it we haven't managed to kill.

Squeak very happy I brought the planter with the herbs inside:

Hope everyone is having a great day ...

 

[Thomas]

36F clear sky.

Not much going on here,couldn't sleep last night so work 12 hours at pt job.

Not much this evening after dinner...feet up share bowl ice cream with kittens hope to watch good movie.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[sodamo]

Good afternoon 73
Got knee done this morning
Still in recovery, hope to get home later
But legs still pretty numb after epidural

Congrats on the knee, Don
Work thru the PT. You’ll be glad you did.

A pain management trick I learned. There are 2 pain issues. While prescribed Vicodin, ibuprofen was more effective for the inflammation. Taken together I was able to quickly reduce the vicodin dosage and got of it completely much sooner. Dr was pleased. As was I.

 

[pennwalk]

Pretty nice afternoon here. I think I did the last mow at the farm. I can remember finishing up the leaves at the farm in the past in December and it was unpleasantly cold. Maybe one more mow at the house then I can take the mower up to the barn and bring back the snowblower.

We got our Christmas tree last week. My wife was afraid they would run out of trees but they had a yard full. Only problem was they mostly looked like Charlie Brown trees. I wonder if they bought a truckload of seconds? The one we got has a trunk like a cork screw but it looks pretty good standing in the living room.
I can remember going out on Christmas eve with my dad to get a Christmas tree when I was a kid. Any tree for a buck. They were about ready to burn the left overs. We got a monster and cut it to fit.

The health care people are afraid that Omicron is going to swamp them because it spreads so fast. The data from South Africa seems to show that two shots of pfizer is only 30% effective at preventing infection. But it looks like a very large percentage of people down there were already infected so they should have hybrid immunity which is supposed to be the best and they are still getting infected. Oh well. All three hospitals here have stopped doing elective surgery.

Definitely take Care

Chris

I should have said the South Africa Info came off the news so there is no telling how accurate it is.

 

[sodamo]

Gutter garden experiment is underway. Still need to plant a couple of herbs. Not expecting anything like Don or RS, but if it produces a variety of freshness I’ll be happy.

Hydroponics portion on hold a bit. Need to finish caretaker unit first.

 

[Buppies]

No snow wngsprd

 

[rswyan]

41F and clear @ 20:45, heading down to ... 41F for the overnight low. Calling for a high of 55F tomorrow ... even better Thursday: 60F ...

Got one load of stuff hauled up to the shop and put away, probably some stuff out there in the garage that still needs to go up.

After that enlisted the help of The Woman and got all the dead plants pulled out of the garden and taken up to the compost pile, and got garden raked and leaves blown out with the Stihl.

Used the Cub to run over the back half of the east side down here by the house and mulch up the leaves, since pretty much all the leaves around the house are down at this point ... so hopefully last time this year. Will work on back and west side tomorrow.

Had some Tuna Helper for dinner then run up to Menards to pick up order.

Got new bulbs for the curio cabinet. Found out there's a problem with one of the sockets so will have to check into that and see what's up.

Used new watering can to water Woman's hibiscus.

There was some evidence of newly planted irises being pulled up this afternoon, so pulling a couple of t-posts for the electric fence from around the garden area and setting them around the flower bed is on the agenda for tomorrow.

May work some more out in the garage after I haul the new flue pipe for the woodburner downstairs.

Hope everyone had a great day ...

 

[rswyan]

RS, plants look good.

Thanks.

Being next to that glass really helps.

Yeah, they seem to be liking it.

Just brought the spike plant that we failed to kill in and the petunias which still seem to be hanging on. Squeak is currently inspecting them.

We'll see how those do.

Containers needed to be brought in anyways, otherwise they may crack when frozen.

Have some catnip, catmint, and lavender seeds that I may plant at some point, along with the coleus.

Hope grout clean up went well ...

 

[rswyan]

rs, your place is going to look like the Queen's garden when all those bulbs come to life. Maybe better.

LOL ... we'll see.

Nice looking roses ...

The Woman's father raised roses, had a nice collection. They are a beautiful flower.

Smell good too.

Hope things improve with the welder repair.