43F, cloudy, and misting @ 13:15, calling for a high of 45F today. A Freeze Watch has been issued for overnight.
Fairly productive day yesterday ... but way too windy to do any spraying.
Got remesh panels removed from van with The Woman's assistance and put over on the tall saw horses for treatment with phosphoric acid to kill the rust.
Live trap repairs and modifications were (partially) successful ! First customer of the new year enrolled. Attempted swimming lessons, which customer failed. He's now up in the field waiting on the buzzards to arrive to take him to his reward.
Live trap up at the shop awaiting repairs:
1. Actuator rod for the trigger plate bent up again (bad design, located inside the trap)
2. Trigger plate torn loose from where it hinges ... but at least not torn up ...
Two bags of mulch put in dump cart for The Woman so She could mulch around Her Stella D'Oro which She had weeded next to the entryway steps:
She also worked on harvesting and potting more of the trailing vine that was volunteering next to the steps:
Took Cub and dump cart up to shop and grabbed a propane bottle, the HF weed torch, and a furniture dolly and brought those down to the house.
Took Kubota back up and removed 3PH for LPGS and infeed chute for
chipper from shop and relocated to south side outside of barn.
Swap out pallet forks on Kubota for the Light Material bucket and haul 6 bags of mulch around back.
Headed up to the compost/woodlot/pumpkin patch and incorporated the stuff I've been dumping up there into the compost pile pile.
Also started screening some more compost.
Put pallet forks back on Kubota and remove the pallet with the remainder of mulch on it to the northeast corner of the house and stage it there for the time being.
Mowed down the two strips of tall grass in the front lawn, completing that until the next go around:
Placed Amazon order for curved draw knife, 100 clothespins, and a silicone mat for the stovetop for The Woman. Order now on the truck and out for delivery.
Headed over to the east side of the house and started mowing that area, got it all done except the very northern portion up next to the driveway.
At that point came in as it was starting to feel chilly.
Woman had fixed tuna salad sandwiches for lunch and I had one.
Headed up to the shop after that and worked until around 22:30, cleaning and straightening up, made good progress for the most part ... although I was thwarted by being unable to locate a dustpan in all the mess.
I did get a snot load of cardboard burned, almost to the point of having the folding table cleared off to relocate stuff on the workbench and other horizontal surfaces so I get those cleaned off and that stuff sorted out.
Just got email from Amazon order was delivered.
Agenda for the rest of the day:
Fill Menards rebate form and get those in the mail.
Generate the paperwork for a couple of Amazon returns The Woman has.
Email accountant to set up an appointment to do our tax returns.
Repot the large tomato seedlings.
Probably head up to the shop later for more cleaning and straightening up.
Pics of cedar log whittling progress for MG as requested:
Have gotten the widest part of the base end down to around 12" at the widest point, so getting close to being able to get it in a post hole.
Close up detail of where the ants and pill bugs have been gnawing away:
Hope everyone is having a decent Hump Day ...
