76F and sunny @ 12:00, calling for a high of 78F for the day. Nearby LWS reports 47.2F was the morning's low temp.
Fairly productive day yesterday.
Got Water Buffalo refilled first thing.
Then all 10 arbs watered, 2 gallons each. Also watered the spruce tree in that line, 4 or 6 gallons IIRC.
Got planting hole up by shop re-drilled. Went smooth like butter after wetting it down the previous day.
Put forks on Kubota and got old washing machine moved over to barn.
After that checked gear oil in Kubota front axle and hydraulic fluid, did not require adding any, levels adequate.
Woman came out and got after cleaning up in front of the garage, made very good progress on that.
Put the four PT 2 x 12's on the forks and took them around back by the garden and got those scrubbed down and hosed off. Brought back around front and put them on hay wagon to dry.
Swapped forks for the Light Material bucket and hauled down 6 bucket loads of wood chips to mulch the east side of garden.
Refilled hopper and both tube feeders, also both suet feeders. Plus scattered some seed for the ground feeders.
Took Kubota around back and gather up trimmings from the 2 Japanese crab apple trees. Then headed up front to collect more trimmings from the pine.
Woman volunteered to cut down the weeds on the east side next to the house. Her little B&D battery-powered string trimmer wasn't quite up to the task so I volunteered my services with the Stihl FS66. Verified that was still in good working condition after getting it back from young neighbor.
Got that area sprayed with glyphosate after raking out the debris, finished spraying the north end of the east side of the expanded garden area.
Woman said something about cutting down the last volunteer ash tree growing at the northeast corner of the house so I told her to go get me Her B&D battery-operated chainsaw.
Got that cut down ... which should improve the Wi-Fi signal out front and up at the shop ... since the tree was directly in front of the antenna.
Loaded up the ash trimmings on the Kubota and the weed trimmings into the dump cart and took both up and dumped them.
Started gathering up the stuff that needed to come inside and got that stuff put away.
Suggested that we head down to the local creamery for a treat after that.
Put on a fresh shirt and was washing my hands at the kitchen sink when I noticed Rocky Jr. was out snacking on the seed I had scattered at the feeders.
Couldn't let that opportunity pass, so I grabbed the 12 gauge and snuck outside. Managed to nail him with my last No. 4 shot shell ... and was about to go put him out of his misery when he stopped twitching.
He was still there this morning ... so disposing of him is the first item on today's agenda.
Beyond that not sure ... never any shortage of things that need done though.
Hope everyone is having a decent Labor Day ...
