rswyan
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- Joined
- May 12, 2004
- Messages
- 9,792
- Location
- Northeast Ohio
- Tractor
- Kubota B2910, Cub Cadet Pro Z 154S, Simplicity 18 CFC, Cub Cadet 782
71F and partly cloudy @ 11:30, heading up to around 76F for the day's high. Slight chance of a shower this afternoon.
Rained a little earlier, LWS reports 0.04".
Started off yesterday by bringing all the tomato plants outside.
Then took the Cub up and sprayed the screened compost pile, plus some over on the east side of the shop and around the base of the oak tree behind it.
At that point the winds seemed to be picking up, checked WeatherBug - yup 13 mph, so I figured that I would move on to something else until the winds slacked off.
Went down and got the Kubota and came back up and started screening more compost. Started new pile (center) of screened material to avoid getting glyphosate on the tires of the Kubota and tracking it all over:
Woman came home while I was doing that so I knocked off and came on down to the house to pow-wow and plan the rest of the day.
She collected the mail on the way in, which had another Menards rebate check in it ...
Remembered one of the next items on the agenda was to remove the Stella D'Oro and hostas from the rear, at the southeast corner of the house so that planting bed could be removed so we agreed on that for the day's work.
Took Kubota back up and grabbed 3 bucketloads of screened material to amend the bed around the oak tree that we cleaned the leaves off the other day.
Woman cleaned out the non-herbicide sprayer and mixed up another batch of peppermint extract and water and started spraying the west planting bed while I was doing that.
I plucked the rebar for the tube feeders while I was back there and had the LM bucket on.
Once that was done I swapped out the Light Material Bucket for the Stump/Shrub Bucket and proceeded around back to start popping out hosta.
Made some progress there, but still lots more to go:
Fortunately we have plenty of places where we can replant it ...
Woman split what I got dug out of there, and then we planted it in the new bed around the small oak tree:
Still needs mulched.
Woman went around front with the Cub and dragged the Water Buffalo around back ... and after several attempts at finding the correct hose coupler, I got it hooked up and filling.
We had 6 hosta left over ... so we planted that over by the maple at the southwest corner of the house to start filling in that area:
Woman sprayed all of the new plantings with peppermint juice.
Once that was done, we were as well ... called it a day and came inside to eat dinner.
After dinner I headed out to the garage and starting filtering more glyphosate premix into the one sprayer I had mostly emptied.
Also moved most the cut plywood for the router and assembly tables onto a furniture dolly so it could be stored under the assembly table top.
Agenda for today:
Dole out meds for this coming week.
Kubota getting low on fuel, hopefully can dispatch The Woman down to the corner to refill the cans.
Hammer in rebar for tube feeder pole in new location and get those put back up.
Seedlings need watered, hopefully can palm that off on The Woman ... once I show Her how to do it.
Front needs mowed along with some other areas, so that's what I'll be spending most of my time on.
Maybe get blade swap done on Cub after mowing.
Fix live trap.
Hope everyone is having a decent Saturday ...
Rained a little earlier, LWS reports 0.04".
Started off yesterday by bringing all the tomato plants outside.
Then took the Cub up and sprayed the screened compost pile, plus some over on the east side of the shop and around the base of the oak tree behind it.
At that point the winds seemed to be picking up, checked WeatherBug - yup 13 mph, so I figured that I would move on to something else until the winds slacked off.
Went down and got the Kubota and came back up and started screening more compost. Started new pile (center) of screened material to avoid getting glyphosate on the tires of the Kubota and tracking it all over:
Woman came home while I was doing that so I knocked off and came on down to the house to pow-wow and plan the rest of the day.
She collected the mail on the way in, which had another Menards rebate check in it ...
Remembered one of the next items on the agenda was to remove the Stella D'Oro and hostas from the rear, at the southeast corner of the house so that planting bed could be removed so we agreed on that for the day's work.
Took Kubota back up and grabbed 3 bucketloads of screened material to amend the bed around the oak tree that we cleaned the leaves off the other day.
Woman cleaned out the non-herbicide sprayer and mixed up another batch of peppermint extract and water and started spraying the west planting bed while I was doing that.
I plucked the rebar for the tube feeders while I was back there and had the LM bucket on.
Once that was done I swapped out the Light Material Bucket for the Stump/Shrub Bucket and proceeded around back to start popping out hosta.
Made some progress there, but still lots more to go:
Fortunately we have plenty of places where we can replant it ...
Woman split what I got dug out of there, and then we planted it in the new bed around the small oak tree:
Still needs mulched.
Woman went around front with the Cub and dragged the Water Buffalo around back ... and after several attempts at finding the correct hose coupler, I got it hooked up and filling.
We had 6 hosta left over ... so we planted that over by the maple at the southwest corner of the house to start filling in that area:
Woman sprayed all of the new plantings with peppermint juice.
Once that was done, we were as well ... called it a day and came inside to eat dinner.
After dinner I headed out to the garage and starting filtering more glyphosate premix into the one sprayer I had mostly emptied.
Also moved most the cut plywood for the router and assembly tables onto a furniture dolly so it could be stored under the assembly table top.
Agenda for today:
Dole out meds for this coming week.
Kubota getting low on fuel, hopefully can dispatch The Woman down to the corner to refill the cans.
Hammer in rebar for tube feeder pole in new location and get those put back up.
Seedlings need watered, hopefully can palm that off on The Woman ... once I show Her how to do it.
Front needs mowed along with some other areas, so that's what I'll be spending most of my time on.
Maybe get blade swap done on Cub after mowing.
Fix live trap.
Hope everyone is having a decent Saturday ...
Kathleen is not happy, she called the owner and he can’t give us a better condo to stay at until next Wednesday! Our friends should arrive here in an hour or so, hopefully we can figure out what to do ! Our windows are covered in plastic and scaffolding all around ! Not good ! 
