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Comments (38)Last weekend I was busy thinning trees to help get more sun to my garden space, then built and filled a few raised beds. This weekend I have to get one more bed built and filled, so during the week I vowed to spend 30 minutes per night on the garden. Tonight wasn't very exciting, as I ended up weeding and watering the perennial flower beds, but that is one less thing keeping me from working on the veggie garden this weekend. Tomorrow I need to plant the dozen or so perennials I've plucked off the clearance rack over the past couple of weeks, then Saturday I'll be able to focus on the VEGGIES!...See MoreWhat did you do today?
Comments (9)Bonnie... Congratulations! You're hired! You probably did a better job than any licensed electrician that I have ever encountered. Most do a very sloppy job. Hurry up and run! Had to upgrade my service about 5 years ago and the power co. required a licensed electrician to do the work, since the weatherhead, meter loop and distribution panel was to be replaced. What a joke that was! Some of his work had to be redone 3 times to comply with local codes.Once the power co. accepted the power loop to the distribution panel (they are only responsible for that part), I fired the jerk and finished the work myself. He got mad and cancelled the permit and said I would never get a county inspector to approve my work. Heh-Heh! Once he cancelled the permit, they weren't required to perform an inspection! Telephone wiring connections are simple, They are low voltage (max 48 volts, direct current) (DC). Just don't handle with wet hands or stand in a puddle of water and you shouldn't feel a thing. Red & Blue are the primary wires. Keep the colors straight and splice by twisting wires together and secure with a small wire-nut. Keep the splices protected from the weather to avoid corrosion. After you finish the rewiring operation, if you have a Touch-Tone keypad and you can't break dial-tone to place a call, you will need to reverse the Red & Blue wires, as the keypads are polarity (+ & -) sensitive. Even though you have observed correct color while splicing, there may be a reversal in a connection along the cable line somewhere. It happens! Have fun! Rb...See MoreWhat did you do today?
Comments (22)About two weeks ago I dug a new flower bed in the front yard and a vegetable bed in the back. A week and a half ago I put in a bunch of composted manure into the bed in the back and planted onions, peas, spinach, and lettuce. I also noticed that the garlic I planted last fall is poking up through the leaves I used to mulch it, so I side-dressed some manure on them and cleared away a bit of the mulch so the soil would warm up faster in the sun. Last weekend I turned over some area in the main side-yard garden, added more manure, and then planted my potatoes. Three different heirloom kinds I got from Seed Savers (the garlic is heirloom, too), Caribe, French Fingerling, and All Blue. This weekend I started my heirloom tomato seeds. Two pots each of 36 varieties. I'm going for variety this year to judge which types I want to keep planting in the future. Assuming they all make it to planting time, I'll probably only plant one of each and then give the others away, since I'm limited on space. I also cleaned out my worm bins this weekend so I'd have a ready supply of worm compost for the upcoming season. I like to use a 50/50 mix of potting soil and worm compost when I re-pot my tomato seedlings, and I like to through in a scoopful when I plant. The tomato plants seem to just love it. Oh, I have some other small stuff started in the basement, too. Some peppers, brussel sprouts, and a bunch of prairie flowers that my wife requested for the new bed in the front. I'd like to get out soon and get the rest of the garden and the new beds ready by loosening up the soil and adding manure. That's my task for this coming weekend. Mike...See MoreWhat Did You Do Today?
Comments (25)7:00 helped 3 kids get ready for school laundry, did about 5 loads all together, folded and put in rooms bought 3 flats of flowers, dropped of recycling bought quite a few groceries, stuff for graduation did dishes, fed all the pets, cleaned one bathroom, made lunch, cleaned to microwave and scrubbed the vent nice and shiny, looked up food recipes for graduation, finished putting stuff back in living room after some big touch up painting. picked up one child from track, brought one child to softball, parent teacher conferences-met with 4 of 8 teachers. Drove dh around the countryside so he could move implements (they are planting corn, poor dh is sick :( with a terrible cold too) picked up softball child, went to wally world for meds and big bags of soil to amend my potting soil. made child 3 lunch for tomorrows field trip. filled out National FBLA form for oldest child, wrote out tomorrows list of things to do while tile guy is here (what a fun way to spend my B-day). I dunno what all else I did, it's sorta a blurr right now. 11:15 I like being here at the end of the day though. no more work until 6:30 am...See Moremarilyn_c
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