Wednesday June 15th 2011

I need to do a few things in the garden today.  Do a little weeding etc. I found a surprise when I went out there…

Zucchini!!!  They are about four inches long and growing like crazy.  The should be ready in about two days maybe three.  I really like zucchini and these were planted from seeds.  Hopefully we get a bunch from these plants..

Well, work today was quite hard. This morning I sprayed Roundup until the wind picked up and wasn’t good to spray anymore so I finished up the job I started last Thursday.  Didn’t take long to finish those jobs. I did some weed whacking until lunch so was getting kind of tired.  After lunch I went with Grant to Russell Street to clean up some empty lots. Got some stuff done but after spraying Roundup I see  a lot of places with overgrown bushes, hedges, trees, weeds etc, etc, etc.  I think I could spend a lot of time over there and probably wouldn’t get it all done. Anything helps though.

By the time we finished on Russell Street my feet were hurting and it still wasn’t time to go home.  After dumping the limbs that I had trimmed I got the golf cart with the sprayer and went over to the mobile home park and sprayed the edges of the road. Bermuda Grass is terrible except that it is green but it wanders all over and becomes a mess.  It grows out into the road so I’m trying to stop it from doing that.

Made it to five thirty and time to go home.  I watered the garden tonight, thought we might get a little rain but nope, dry as popcorn!  Linda made egg salad.  I had boiled the eggs this morning and forgot to tell her. Glad she realized that egg salad would be great on a hot day.  It was delicious.

Not going to do anything tonight because my feet hurt and I still have to work tomorrow!  We are going to watch a little TV and go to bed…Night Y’all….

Tuesday June 14th 2011

I notice that there is another row of corn up through the ground(in the garden).  I will plant another row of sweet corn Saturday maybe, have to wait and see. The little cucumber(?) isn’t growing!  What a bummer!  Well, there is another one that looks like it may make it.  It has a bloom on the end and looks pretty healthy.

I stoked up the fire again this morning, there were some pretty hot pieces left and I trimmed another tree and put the limbs on it and also split another three pieces of wood.  The wind isn’t exactly in the right direction for burning but maybe it will be OK.

Doesn’t look real smoky but the wind is blowing it towards out house. The cornfield looks pretty decent. 

I went to work this afternoon and Linda called and said Daniel was going to put the fire out because his house was filled with smoke, I probably should have put it out before going to work.  He got it though.

We have bushes that I called Rose of Sharon but I’m sure that isn’t what they are but they are pretty and very sturdy bushes, I cut the tops off a few years ago and they are taller now than they were before, may have to get the chain saw out again.

Lots of flowers on these bushes

Well, work went quite well, very slow but lots of phone calls.  The books didn’t jive at the end of the shift and I really didn’t do much!  I either forgot to write something down that I sold or counted something wrong.  Maybe Mark will let me know in the morning.  I sure get curious when I can’t find out where I made the mistake at!!

I watered the garden tonight and watched a little TV.  The “Voice” was one we watched.  It was pretty good and the singers have good voices but most of it is not my type of music so I’m not sure if they did good or not.

Well, I got to watch the weather and we are supposed to have some! Missouri is so fluctuant in weather that they really have a hard time forecasting what it is going to be like in advance.  Usually hit the temps pretty good though.

This is our little pecan tree, it’s got nuts!!  Pecan nuts that is. This is the first year that it has produced so maybe we will be able to collect some of them to see if they are any good.

Well, I’ve been looking through my pictures to see if I have any that are interesting.  I have one for tomorrow, let me see if I have another for today..

Nope, that is all for today, guess I will catch you on the flip flop…Night Y’all…

Monday June 13th 2011

Before I get started I took a picture of the left overs we had yesterday! Sounds exciting doesn’t it???  It was delicious, roast beef with potatoes and carrots….

She cooked it in a crock pot over night and ohhhh the smells…Tastes just as good today and yesterday, one of my favorite meals…leftovers!

It is cool out today and actually very nice!  Linda has an appointment with the ear specialist this afternoon so I decided to check into the camper this morning to see if I can’t figure out what is going on with the twelve volt system.  We have absolutely no twelve volt things that work in the camper.  Still have the twelve volts in the cab though.  I did a lot of testing and at the “turn off” switch I get no power, I looked at most of the other things I could find but everything seems to be normal and I looked under the coach and didn’t see anything but I think I will look again.  Good thing I did, I think I found the problem…sure hope so..

I know it is hard to tell what I am holding but it is a twelve volt wire that has been rubbing against the drive shaft (?), well it is between the drive shaft and the transmission. It is completely severed.  I called A-1 Auto Electric and they can fix it.  I would do it but I have no parts, tools or room under the camper to work on it.  They said they can do it so I will pay them to do it and hopefully that is the answer to ALL my problems.

OK I have another picture of the cucumber(?)…

Maybe I put this picture in yesterday, I can’t remember but it is yellow and today it is turning green!  Guess I will just wait and see..

After Linda’s appointment we stopped at Wal Mart and Linda bought some stuff for Sparky. He is still growing a little and his harness was to the max so she got him a new one which is taking a little time to get used to..

Isn’t he cute???  He is getting used to the harness now I think. He is pretty adaptable.

I started a fire again last night, not much on TV. I like starting fires hope I’m not a pyromaniac!!!  Still have a few more pieces to burn though and a couple of stumps to get rid of which will take awhile.

When I got the fire burning I watched it until it was time to go in, Sparky was having a great time chewing on sticks.

Watched TV for awhile and then the weather which says it will be a little rainy for a few days then get hot again.  Summer is about here I guess… Night Y’all…

Sunday June 12th 2011

Church day!  Linda didn’t get up this morning so I went alone.  I like Pastor Joe’s sermons but Sunday morning for some reason I  have a hard time staying awake!!  Sunday night was on Revelation again and the last three bowl judgments.  Very interesting and I like Revelation more each time I hear it.  One thing about the sermon, and I’m not downplaying his sermon but he left out a verse Revelation 16:15!  I figured this would  be and important  verse but maybe he was just doing the bowls, not sure, when I have a chance I will ask him.

Have another picture of the free plant I got with the tomato plant…still don’t know what it is, either a yellow squash or yellow (?) cucumber..

Does anyone know what it is???  Guess I could wait another week and find out but my guess is a yellow squash and I’ve never raised yellow squash..

Got another picture of our little annual flowers…

They sure aren’t very big but they are blooming, more that I can say about the expensive perennials that I planted, they aren’t even coming up.

The garden is looking good especially the zucchini squash that I planted…

It cooled off today and is just beautiful out.  I know it isn’t going to last but at least it is nice today.

Not much else going on, we watched things we had recorded tonight. Chaos.  I had forgotten all about it but the show isn’t to bad, kind of funny and still keeps your interest..

Well, guess I will go to bed, night Y’all…

Friday June 10th 2011

Another hot day!!!  I get to work inside today though, well, when I get to work anyway.  I decided to mow the lawn and till the garden to get rid of some grass, then I decided to plant another row of sweet corn.  The garden looks better now…

Still have the chairs out there but got a lot of the grass!!

Got a picture of the corn field across the road where they started irrigating..

The land here is flat enough that they grade the fields and can flood the rows from one end to another.  It really is interesting.

Have another flower picture, an annual that I planted but for a small flower it sure is pretty…

Not sure what kind of flowers they are but I will take it.  There are a lot of buds so maybe they will look nice.  Linda’s carnation plant is starting to bloom also…

This was almost dead so I was surprised to see one starting to open.

After work, which was not very busy, I watered the garden again and let Sparky watch.  He gets pretty bored just watching.

Not much going on tonight, I am tired (so what’s new?) so I think I missed the weather, really tired…..Night Y’all….

Wednesday June 8th 2011

This morning I got to get into the garden a bit and did a little watering.  The bell pepper plants need lots of water for some reason.  They sure do wilt in the sun!

Well at work today I did lots of Roundup spraying and trimmed a few trees.  There is lots of things to do in the mobile home park but I had to take some pictures and I put them in a collage just for LaVon who really likes “dead trees”…

All these trees are in the mobile home park and need to be cut down or pushed over, whatever.  We just cut one up that fell down and took the power lines and a telephone pole with it!!  The need to come down but it will be later, just to many things to do…

Grant and I went to Russell Street today, he mowed and I cut up limbs and loaded the truck.  I was about to start spraying Roundup and just as I got started I found another pile of limbs under another tree with a lot of “sucker” limbs on the tree.  Got the chain saw out again and did the trimming and cut up the limbs.  Grant finished mowing long before I could get much done so we just loaded up the equipment and headed  back.

Back at the RV Park I did more weed whacking and cleanup.  I also policed the area and by 5:30PM I was exhausted!  I was ready to go home!

Not much on TV tonight, watched HGTV tonight.  Couldn’t do a lot, I was just to tired!   Going to bed now…Night Y’all…

Tuesday June 7th 2011

Don’t know if today is supposed to be a record breaker or not but it is going to get pretty warm.  No relief until the weekend when we are supposed to get some rain and we can use some rain!

I was surprised when I went out to the garden this morning and saw the replanted corn was up…not very high but up…

The grass is bigger than the corn but it is there!  The replanted string beans are up also.  Maybe we will have a nice garden this year.

I didn’t get to pull any grass before I went to work, at least not much.

Work this afternoon was not busy!!  I got the bathrooms cleaned and waited for the campers to come in and while waiting I got to do a little reading.  Linda gave me a book by Nora Roberts called “Blue Smoke” and it is getting very interesting.  I don’t read a lot because my eyes get tired but I read quite a bit this afternoon.

When I got home I pulled grass out of the beans.  Doesn’t look to bad.  I figure a little work here and a little work there and I will be able to keep it kind of clean.  Looks like the extra plant that came with the tomato plant is starting to get  a growth (?) and I think it may be squash but still to small to tell.

Took it easy tonight, tomorrow is going to be a long hot day.  I will be working outside all day and it is going to be hot so I will get ready to sweat a little tomorrow…Night Y’all…