August
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8/31/2011
After serving me for 31 years the white truck goes to scrap yard for 306 dollars.
Finished the power line path. Picked the peaches at my house.
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8/30/2011
Worked in the garden today.
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8/29/2011
I fell off the ladder. It hurt.
Finished now.
I do not believe the glasses should be bent like this. They look better than my head and back and shoulder.
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8/28/2011
Cleaned the green house.
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8/27/2011
Finished.
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8/26/2011
Testing the can stove without the fan 16 oz of water at 62º took 12 minutes and 110 grams of fuel. Add the fan with same water and fuel.
Boil time was 7 minutes and 90 grams of fuel. Fun but I don't think it is worth it.
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8/25/2011
Breakfast in the garden.
Now they are ripe.
Re-Sort and touch every single thing in the Last Chance Yard Sale.
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8/24/2011
Capper cleaned for Sharon. More Vegggies drying.
Put up signs so I can remember its HOT!
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8/23/2011
Now the Bees have light and sound protection. Motion Detector and Light and 100 db of siren.
Clean for Sharon
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8/22/2011
Repaired Dipole
Picked veggies this morning
Set the site for the tank house.
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8/21/2011
I was wrong on the 13th when I said I had no queen.
Brood in the center and the Queen upper middle with abdomen pointing toward 11:00 o'clock. Capped honey on the bottom.
Again brood in the middle and capped honey on the bottom. Bulging yellow caps on brood and white flat caps on the honey.
First guess is the brood is 1200 strong now.
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8/20/2011
Electric fence is working now, 1650 feet in 3 wires hot, and two gates hot.
Striped
First Tomatoes
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8/19/2011
Installed 154 stand off insulators for the Electric Fence.
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8/18/2011
Bee working. Resting my knee today.
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8/17/2011
Those are 2x6 in the deck, and very nice Dusky Eggplant, we have had that many already and many more to come. Breaded Eggplant tonight!
Cleaned, sharpened and repaired 8 clippers. Dennis worked on the firebreak.
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8/16/2011
Deja Vu, more squash and more lumber.
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8/15/2011
Out of some of the scrap that was in the trailer I made over 100 board feet and some fire wood for the shop.
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8/14/2011
All cleaned up. The slash that will be fire wood is moved and the trash went to the burn pile.
4 x 10 Timber 16' 6" long close to 500 lb.
Balance its all about balance.
So the Doc says " Do you exercise regularly? " Uh no. You mean like lift weights and stuff?
Very nice beams. This was trash and I will get another couple of hundred board feet out of it by careful cutting.
No need for Botox to remove wrinkles we have bees.
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8/13/2011
Click on picture. No Queen. No brood. Just honey and pollen. 12 days.
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8/12/2011
Day two. Finish up on the logs.
Fire wood.
End view of some of the wood. Random width, mostly 3/4 thick.
10, 12, 14, and 16 foot lengths. 1x3 for bats. 1x 6 through 1x10 for boards. Over 1200 board feet. Enough for a wall 10 ft high by 120 ft.
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8/11/2011
Remember in June when I started the floor under the shed.
So now the steel girder is gone and the building is set back the was it should be. Ready for stuff to go under it!
OK that sounds good to me.
Really pretty wood. Going to be a tank house.
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8/10/2011
A clean spot for the little car to live. When the little car is not here, then it is "The western beer garden" for Dennis.
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8/9/2011
Cleaned and sharpened a 52 inch saw for a trip into a downed forest.
Sharpened with a file and set by hand. Proof is in the cutting, two people and all you do is pull.
My favorite, a matched pair. One of the girls immersed in her job.
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8/8/2011
New Fridge.
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8/7/2011
Got the sink and water back in the glaze shop.
74 pounds of squash reduced to 7 pounds.
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8/6/2011
Four levels. Three shelves, three sides. Those are 7 gallon buckets.
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8/5/2011
One shelf, on three walls, two more to go.
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8/4/2011
One bucket of cement to 12 shovels of sand and gravel.
The dolly can roll under the building.
Mix and mix some more.
The Fun part, you can see the delivery, on my belly.
Little by little.
Float first.
Getting closer.
Screeding
Filled
Finish. Still 4000 lb. of sand and gravel on the truck.
Done for a while.
Clean off the truck.
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8/3/2011
So after 40 hours I could not wait any longer, I opened the queen case and let her out into the hive.
She had many attendants, not many eating the candy out, only halfway there. I was worried about the heat.
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8/2/2011
74 pounds of Squash
Shooting out of the cutter, just a blur.
Zucchini, Summer Squash (yellow and green) and Crookneck. All cut.
Now we let the sun do it's work.
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8/1/2011
There is a fir tree in there that has to come out.
So limbs come off, then the top without hitting the roof.
Now to put it out the hole without hitting the roof.
Now to move it to the log deck.
