72F and cloudy @ 10:00, which is supposed to be the day's high.
Cold front headed in later, with it's approach comes thunderstorms, some possibly severe.
Woman is over feeding Her neighbor lady friend's cat while she is away on vacation.
Got hopper and tube feeders refilled yesterday, also scattered some for the ground feeders. Tube feeders are still the garage as I took the pole they go on down to relocate it.
Got second Roundup sprayer filled up and ready to go.
Woman got the sprayer She had been using for vinegar as a weed killer cleaned out so it can be repurposed for fungicide/insecticide.
Had Her go collect the broken monofilament "fencing wire" from around the northwest planting bed after that.
Moved a bunch of junk out of the garage in order to clean up near the overhead door.
Ran over to the barn with the Kubota and got a pallet that had about 8 - 10 bags of lawn fertilizer on it and brought that over to the house.
Then unloaded van which was a bit of a PITA. Had a 4 x 8 sheet of 1/2 plywood on top of 8 PT 2 x 4 x 8's sitting on the load bars with a pallet containing the rest of the order, end of one load bar came unhooked while coming home.
Loaded all the lumber on pallet forks then onto the saw horses that I moved out of the garage.
Filled dump cart up with some stuff (mostly cardboard) going up to the shop and ran that up and dropped it. Woman came up in the car and moved all of that in while I went and started mowing the front.
After She finished I dispatched Her to BellStores down in Canal Fulton to get 1 gallon of non-ethanol fuel for the Stihl equipment and 3 1/2 gallons of regular for the Cub.
Portions of the front lawn had dried up considerably and I was able to get a lot more mowed that I hadn't been able to get to yet this year.
Probably 70% - 75% had been mowed at the point I finished.
Refueled the left tank on the Cub when Woman got back.
Woman came out later and started picking up sticks and branches on the east side while I was finishing that up. I brought the Kubota over which still have the forks on it and loaded the long branches that wouldn't fit in the dump cart and took those up.
Then I started mowing parts of the compost/woodlot that were dry enough to get to. Lowers parts south of the compost pile tends to stay pretty moist so I avoided that area.
I did run over most of the pumpkin patch food plot area with the deck all the way up and got it beat back.
After that I came down and mowed the area around the northwest planting bed.
Then headed over to the east side to start mowing over there. Woman was finished doing pick up so I hooked up the dump cart and hauled it to the back and emptied it.
Got most the east side mowed.
Consolidated 2 bales of peat moss and a bag of pothole patch from the Menards order onto the pallet with the fertilizer, along with another bag of fertilizer that I grabbed from the garage and hauled the pallet back over to the barn.
Moved the original pallet that the order was on over closer to the garage door, only thing left on that was a bag of bird seed which I moved into the garage later.
At some point The Woman had snuck out and removed the 2 boxes of cat litter off the pallet while I wasn't looking and taken them into the house with the two wheeler ...
Took the 1 gallon can of non-ethanol gas and added the Stihl oil to it and fueled up the Stihl pole saw. Adjusted the chain on that and then cut down a bunch of branches off the oak that had been previously topped that was growing up in the rhododendron on the north side of the garage.
Also cut down 1 slippery elm and 2 ash saplings that were growing out in the 1st circle.
While I was doing that Woman ran down to the local pizza joint to pick up some dinner for me and then Dominos for dinner for her.
Finished up with the pruning before She got back so I went ahead put the Craftsman MoJack back together for this season.
Then loaded up the dump cart with 4 pump sprayers that need cleaned out/repaired, the 3 t-posts and post pounder from the Menards order and hauled those around back.
Got everything that was out that needed to be put away, put away in the garage ... and then took a little personal relaxation time and just sat out there in warm evening air in a lawn chair watching the bats fly around before I came in for dinner.
As of this morning the count on redbud seed that have germinated is up to 20.
Not all is good news however.
Had a disaster with the tomato seedlings - apparently I got confused on when I had last watered (and/or fertilized) and I croaked a whole bunch of them:
Got seeds replanted last night for all the ones that I managed to kill off.
Fortunately, there is still plenty of time to start another batch ... probably wouldn't even be setting them out until around Memorial Day.
Just heard the call that breakfast is ready ...
Hope everyone is having a decent Wednesday ...