September 7-8, 2013

Sally staid in town to get things done, I came to the farm to get things done. It continued to be dry and hot with highs both days of 98. I forgot my charger and my battery was low, so few pictures this trip.

1. Stopped by a plumbing shop in Eureka and picked up an aluminum/zinc anoid which I hope will solve the iron bacteria/rotten egg smell when it goes two weeks unused. However, I didn't have a socket large enough to get the old one out/new one in.
2. Watered the garden twice, watered the trees out front, and watered the apple trees.
3. Took a large bin down into the well house, set the sump pump in it, and filled it with water to ensure the pump was still working. It passed the test.
4. Mowed around the barn, the spring, down to the pond, and the far area behind the house. The Craftsman wouldn't start though, so I switched batteries with the one I had salvaged from the Murray and it cranked right up.
5. Lopped the low hanging and intruding limbs from the road coming in.
6. Brush whacked up the road and around the cattle guard.
7. Cleaned the bathroom sink and shower.
8. Cut a piece of the back door weather seal off so I can find a replacement.
9. Picked all the remaining pears (4) and apples (7).
10. Trimmed the hollies with my hedge trimmer and cut back the ivy growing up the side of the garage by the house.
11. Began cleaning the floor in the kitchen using a Mr Clean Magic Eraser, which worked amazingly well (although slowly).
12. Finished cutting up the logs still in the SE corner from the tornado, and hauled them over to the side so the place can be brush hogged.
13. 
    Flagged what few baby trees that have survived to prevent them from being brush hogged.
14. Using a tow strap, I drug the big cedar from the SE corner (blown over by the tornado) down to the other side of the pond. I plan to sink it for fish habitat, but it was too big for me to handle even after cutting it in two.
15. Hauled the high wheel string trimmer to the level section of the road half way down the hill and cleaned up the grass growing under the fence. (Burned my stomach on the muffler when lifting it back into the truck.)
16. Picked the garden: more green beans, a little kale and chard, and another dozen butternut squash. Some critter had been feasting on this one right inside the garden.

Productive, but exhausting.