rswyan
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- Location
- Northeast Ohio
- Tractor
- Kubota B2910, Cub Cadet Pro Z 154S, Simplicity 18 CFC, Cub Cadet 782
79F and partly cloudy @ 13:30, calling for a high of 80F for the day. Nearby LWS reports that the low this morning was 47.1F.
Local Weather Babe announced last night that CAK - which about 6 miles away - set a new record for the lowest total amount of precipitation for the entire month of August:
0.19"
It's also a new record for the lowest total amount of precipitation for ANY month since records have been being kept @ CAK ...
Kinda surprising that things are as green as they are here.
Next chance for rain is late Wednesday into Thursday.
Put Rocky Jr. in the bucket of the Kubota first thing yesterday and took him up to the compost/woodlot for the buzzards.
After that it was a fairly leisurely day, mostly spent on trimming that pine tree by the northwest planting bed. Warm but very pleasant with a breeze.
Decided to take off another level of low branches. Should be able to get under it now without getting poked in the head.
Couple of loads of trimmings loaded and hauled up to the burn pile. Much time spent with various implements of destruction nipping off little branches that were hanging down from other branches that were not being removed.
Got all the larger wood loaded into the bucket, hoping I can get rid of that to the neighbor who sometimes has a fire in his burn pit in the evenings.
Deer left several large "presents" underneath that tree, Woman was amazed when I told Her it was deer what done it.
She mostly worked on cleaning up in front of and inside the garage.
After I finished the trimming I got a large welded wire cage around 4' tall put around the Japanese ornamental out front and secured with a pair of 5' rebar stakes. Also tied off the tree to one stake as it was growing at angle. Something has been eating the leaves on it so I went back to the house and grabbed the sprayer that was loaded with Sevin and gave it a good spraying.
After that I took the Stihl FS66 up to where we had planted the tulip tree and trimmed down all the weeds growing there.
Then sprayed that with glyphosate, along with spray edging around the 2 burning bushes, the little peach tree, the Japanese ornamental, and the Red Maple. Also sprayed around the drain outlet up in the front.
Reloaded the 12 gauge with No. 8 shells when I came in.
Very slow getting rolling this morning, was up until around 04:00.
On the agenda for today:
Dole out another week's worth of meds.
Pay a bill that is coming due.
Re-drill that planting hole where the tulip tree was. Once that's done should be able to remove the 24" auger and put the 12" bit on.
Probably get back to watering the garden, since it's been a couple of days since it's had anything.
Need to check and see if anything needs harvested.
Garbage and recyclables need to go up to the cans at the road, since Trash Day was delayed one day due to the holiday.
Beyond that see what else comes up.
Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday ...
Local Weather Babe announced last night that CAK - which about 6 miles away - set a new record for the lowest total amount of precipitation for the entire month of August:
0.19"
It's also a new record for the lowest total amount of precipitation for ANY month since records have been being kept @ CAK ...
Kinda surprising that things are as green as they are here.
Next chance for rain is late Wednesday into Thursday.
Put Rocky Jr. in the bucket of the Kubota first thing yesterday and took him up to the compost/woodlot for the buzzards.
After that it was a fairly leisurely day, mostly spent on trimming that pine tree by the northwest planting bed. Warm but very pleasant with a breeze.
Decided to take off another level of low branches. Should be able to get under it now without getting poked in the head.
Couple of loads of trimmings loaded and hauled up to the burn pile. Much time spent with various implements of destruction nipping off little branches that were hanging down from other branches that were not being removed.
Got all the larger wood loaded into the bucket, hoping I can get rid of that to the neighbor who sometimes has a fire in his burn pit in the evenings.
Deer left several large "presents" underneath that tree, Woman was amazed when I told Her it was deer what done it.
She mostly worked on cleaning up in front of and inside the garage.
After I finished the trimming I got a large welded wire cage around 4' tall put around the Japanese ornamental out front and secured with a pair of 5' rebar stakes. Also tied off the tree to one stake as it was growing at angle. Something has been eating the leaves on it so I went back to the house and grabbed the sprayer that was loaded with Sevin and gave it a good spraying.
After that I took the Stihl FS66 up to where we had planted the tulip tree and trimmed down all the weeds growing there.
Then sprayed that with glyphosate, along with spray edging around the 2 burning bushes, the little peach tree, the Japanese ornamental, and the Red Maple. Also sprayed around the drain outlet up in the front.
Reloaded the 12 gauge with No. 8 shells when I came in.
Very slow getting rolling this morning, was up until around 04:00.
On the agenda for today:
Dole out another week's worth of meds.
Pay a bill that is coming due.
Re-drill that planting hole where the tulip tree was. Once that's done should be able to remove the 24" auger and put the 12" bit on.
Probably get back to watering the garden, since it's been a couple of days since it's had anything.
Need to check and see if anything needs harvested.
Garbage and recyclables need to go up to the cans at the road, since Trash Day was delayed one day due to the holiday.
Beyond that see what else comes up.
Hope everyone is having a decent Tuesday ...
So we had a house and yard full of kids at 5 pm yesterday 
