Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

Bill- I hope that you have an uneventful journey and be able to take advantage of an opportunity to be "good" to yourself.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Wife's flowers are coming now. Part of many bulbs she had me plant

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Beautiful asiatic lilies! Give them a couple years.... the bulbs will multiply at a crazy rate. 5 years ago, we planted 4 lilies in planters that were 12" x 24"..... they totally filled those planters to the edges. As reported a few weeks ago, we got literally hundreds of bulbs out of those (4) planters

They don't like a lot of water, so be careful watering.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Kilroy, you mean like this "shed porch"?

The shed manufacturer wanted another $1400 to add the porch and roof (their price included some fancy handrails and ballusters). I did pay an additional $50 to have them include 4 panels of the matching metal roof. Cost me around another $200 in materials and a days work.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

A successful day! WOOHOO! Strawberry planter is done!


Hopefully the berries that have started already, continue to ripen /develop. We were going to break them apart and spread out in the planter, but decided that less trauma to the roots would be better, so just placed the whole "ball of roots" as one.

Finished just in time..... a brief shower chased us up on the deck. Once it stopped, finished putting away the tools and admired the planter. We have had 3 more light 'storms' come across. No soaking rain, but any helps.

Still have plenty of plants being propagated......

The new sequoia in the foreground. This doesn't include whats in the greenhouse.......

Made another early dinner, this time chops on the grill. Leftover backed macs. Chocolate chip cookies and a scoop of vanilla IC for desert.

Time to put the feet up and watch some PBS.

 

[KilroyJC]

Kilroy, you mean like this "shed porch"?
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The shed manufacturer wanted another $1400 to add the porch and roof (their price included some fancy handrails and ballusters). I did pay an additional $50 to have them include 4 panels of the matching metal roof. Cost me around another $200 in materials and a days work.

Maybe a little more elaborate than that. Or simpler, depending…

Up until the time of delivery, Mrs was second-guessing the shed we ordered: 10x16. However, when you come through our gate (which, if you have followed some of my picture, has a sweeping downhill right hand turn and the space between the post and the gate on the hinge bolts is 11’11”) the maximum you could get through is about what we got… AND it rained the night before and we have that good greasy red Southern mud… and as the truck was coming down the hill it was tilting and sliding and—- it made it unscathed, but just barely. And then Mrs acknowledged that I WAS RIGHT and we couldn’t have gotten a bigger unit in there.

lone of the things she second-%guessed was not getting an “office-style” with the covered porch and railings etc. but I had to take into account the length of the building plus the cab of the delivery truck and the turning radius and bigger just wouldn’t work.

my plan is to make a lean-to shed -type roof angling down off the front at about a 2/12 pitch right about where that horizontal trim piece is above the doors, as opposed to trying to trying to match the roofline extending out.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

BEF, that wreck looks nasty. How is the driver?

I heard driver lived, don’t know any more.
We average 1 wreck per year like that.

You have a safe summer driving.

 

[KilroyJC]

GM UPDATE:

Did not get to do any tractor work but just about the rest of the clearing work done with the mini-ex:

i will likely take down more trees here come winter, but this is good enough for now as I have a whole bunch of veggie plants that really need to go in the ground this week! So we will go with “Good ’nuff”. In the last photo, Mrs is standing on what would be the “road” to the back, so everything to the right will get plowed, harrowed, furrowed, and planted.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

The little piggie was very good tonight

No rain, storms were up in PA.

 

[KilroyJC]

The little piggie was very good tonight View attachment 804031
No rain, storms were up in PA.

Looks yummy!!!!! Save me an ear

 

[PJSprog]

61°F and clear skies this morning, got up to 92° today. Humidity was low, so it wasn't terrible outside. Seems we got our typical two weeks of Spring weather, then right into Summer this year. Been up in the 90s for a few days now.

Been away awhile. Not confident that I'll ever get caught up again.

Wife and I got the new chicken coop finished last weekend. Bought a pre-made henhouse from a regional builder and had it delivered. We built a base of framed gravel for it. Then we ("I") dug a bunch of holes and concreted in the 4x4s, and built the rest out of pressure treated 2x4s. Put in some outside roosting bars, a couple of swings, and a sandbox. The chickens seem to like it. So do I, as it's slightly over 6' inside and I can walk upright. Even the henhouse is 6'6" at the peak inside. We mounted a couple of solar powered lights on the outside, and one on the inside. This turned out to be a bit more expensive than the first one, which we were surprised to note actually lasted five years ... about three longer than we'd anticipated.

Hope everyone is well.

Good evening, Gents.