This is just a brief daily journal I keep: May clean it up a bit....or not.
May 28 2014
Up at 3:30 AM
Surveyed my kingdom took pictures
Called to schedule bids on guttering
(Lowes) finish painting job (Liberty Paint Co.)
Made bread: dough way too soft but
afraid to keep adding flour. Made 2 loaves and one small one into
sweet rolls.
May 29
Mowed. Got Echo going; trimmed around
drive got wagon wheels back in place. Trimmed around the house.
May 31, 2014
Lowes bid almost $700 for the guttering
project. Still haven't heard back from Jim at Liberty Painting.
June l.
Courtney and I went to Lowes. Got red
paint and white and oil primer for smokehouse.
Monday June 2, 2014
Started Echo did a dab of trimming.
Weeded HB bed by hand, edged with trimmer.
Sprayed a mix of Sevin and Dormant Oil
all season on fruit trees. There are some peaches and plums.
Already see damage on fruit. The daily rains kept me from doing a
l0-day interval. This is the first since the dormant oil. I guess I
should just spray regularly regardless of small rains. Maybe if it
just dries first it would do some good.
Need Doing: Plant more pole beans,
cucumbers
Rest of Mowing and plant rest of bucket ghetto.
Courtney mowed the rest of the yard
using the Cub. Did a great job.
Rain came during evening and
morning....there goes the fruit tree spray.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
A very hot and humid day, 90°.
Courtney painted most of front of
smokehouse (they gave us latex with primer so we just used it instead
of oil base primer.
Pete the Painter called. Sending out
men Friday, Sat and Sunday to paint and do yard work weather
permitting.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Very humid, overcast and 73°. After
breakfast we went to Willard park and did a l0-minute walk. I am so
out of shape in all ways that I will have to build up my time slowly.
Came back planted hoop with Romano Pole
and some Fortex seed I found. Did north side of short hoop with
French Filet bean like the south side. Did a hill of Diva behind
the clematis Harlow Carr by garden gate.
Need to hoe out corn and mulch
tomatoes. Need a short row of okra somewhere.
Stopped at 8:40. Very fine mist going.
Meat loaf done for dinner.
Whew! Caught up for a while.
Random Pictures:
This is my sole remaining heirloom rose:
Poppies (papaver somniferum) by gas tank. Mostly shades of pink....no doubles yet but lots more to go.
I spotted a very red one this morning.
These are by the pole light,
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| From June 2014 |
Mock orange is in full bloom. alas, none are fragrant:
My unlovely west yard (I hope you can't see that it is mostly mowed weeds. At least there are no plants or beds calling to me to spray, clip, or mulch!
Note to Milk Maid: Jersey seemed to be in heat 6/1/14! Big surprise....no heat that I have seen up to now except a few very early ones.
