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WOO HOO!!! My grandson came over yesterday to help me with some stuff. I had baked cake for him and fortified him with a piece of that before we started work. I baked a white cake and sprinkled the top with some Heeth bar baking bits. Once it was done, I didn't think it had enough baking bits on top so I mixed up a powdered sugar-melted butter-almond flavoring glaze that I drizzled over the top then while that was still moist, sprinkled it liberally with more baking bits. Good stuff but rich!
He tilled up my garden with my little tiller, helping me plant the plants I got for it. Then, we went inside and he helped me by putting a 'couch-leftover' piece of plywood under my mattress where the big piece would just about be sagging in the middle a bit by this time. During all of that #2 daughter came over for a minute. It was wonderful to see her safely home from her trip! I wonder how soon she'll drive 1,000 miles again with 3 babies under a year old?!?
I worked on my riding mower a bit after that only to realize it wasn't just the clamps that were bad and letting the gas leak out but that one piece of gas line was dried and cracked and needed replacing as well as the battery. At that point, as that piece of gas line was higher than the rest of the gas line, I had a sneaking suspicion that the entire line was not leaking but it was running down on the rest from that one section. I went to Lo's to get a battery and found a gas line kit there so that I didn't have to run all over town looking for some gas line for it. I filled my car with gas at the station there by Lo's, then darted across to the grocery to stock up on bananas for the week, then came home and started working on the riding mower. It now works again and I will hopefully be able to mow the yard next time saving the money I would have to pay Kevin when I have to call him.
I was so angry when I started working on the gas line and realized Ed had used zip ties, rather than metal clamps in a couple of places to clamp each end of one section of the gas line! You're supposed to use clamps for that! I should have replaced those while I was at it but I was quickly running out of steam by then so I figured a few mowings down the road, I'd do that. In other words, just for yesterday, they weren't broke so I didn't fix them. I definitely want to replace them before I put it away for the winter. I'm thinking that would be a job I would have to do before mowing season could commence next season if I don't do it soon. I'll change the oil in it before I mow with it.
I then put some 10-10-10 around my front hedges which just aren't doing all that good, well, 3 of them are but the other 4 aren't, then I put a bit out in the newly planted garden. I liberally sprinkled between the rows with Preen to stop a lot of weed growth. The 4 hedge bushes that aren't doing well don't get full sun like the other 3 and I feel too, those 4 were being strangled by the tree roots that 'Paul Bunyon Robin' removed. Maybe this year they will do a little better even if they don't get full sun all day long. I spoke with Kevin about replacing the worst little hedge bush on the end with a camellia bush and he said that wouldn't be a problem as those roots go down and not along the ground to go up under that corner of the house.
While at Lo's, I got a pack of flat leaf parsley seeds for my fence herb baskets, although I didn't need an entire pack for that.
David, do you need any parsley seeds? Let me know and I'll bring them to you when I pick you up this evening. Anyone else need any? I'm sure no one person needs a full pack of parsley seeds.
And tonight is 'Special Dinner' night for a certain young son of mine!
He tilled up my garden with my little tiller, helping me plant the plants I got for it. Then, we went inside and he helped me by putting a 'couch-leftover' piece of plywood under my mattress where the big piece would just about be sagging in the middle a bit by this time. During all of that #2 daughter came over for a minute. It was wonderful to see her safely home from her trip! I wonder how soon she'll drive 1,000 miles again with 3 babies under a year old?!?
I worked on my riding mower a bit after that only to realize it wasn't just the clamps that were bad and letting the gas leak out but that one piece of gas line was dried and cracked and needed replacing as well as the battery. At that point, as that piece of gas line was higher than the rest of the gas line, I had a sneaking suspicion that the entire line was not leaking but it was running down on the rest from that one section. I went to Lo's to get a battery and found a gas line kit there so that I didn't have to run all over town looking for some gas line for it. I filled my car with gas at the station there by Lo's, then darted across to the grocery to stock up on bananas for the week, then came home and started working on the riding mower. It now works again and I will hopefully be able to mow the yard next time saving the money I would have to pay Kevin when I have to call him.
I was so angry when I started working on the gas line and realized Ed had used zip ties, rather than metal clamps in a couple of places to clamp each end of one section of the gas line! You're supposed to use clamps for that! I should have replaced those while I was at it but I was quickly running out of steam by then so I figured a few mowings down the road, I'd do that. In other words, just for yesterday, they weren't broke so I didn't fix them. I definitely want to replace them before I put it away for the winter. I'm thinking that would be a job I would have to do before mowing season could commence next season if I don't do it soon. I'll change the oil in it before I mow with it.
I then put some 10-10-10 around my front hedges which just aren't doing all that good, well, 3 of them are but the other 4 aren't, then I put a bit out in the newly planted garden. I liberally sprinkled between the rows with Preen to stop a lot of weed growth. The 4 hedge bushes that aren't doing well don't get full sun like the other 3 and I feel too, those 4 were being strangled by the tree roots that 'Paul Bunyon Robin' removed. Maybe this year they will do a little better even if they don't get full sun all day long. I spoke with Kevin about replacing the worst little hedge bush on the end with a camellia bush and he said that wouldn't be a problem as those roots go down and not along the ground to go up under that corner of the house.
While at Lo's, I got a pack of flat leaf parsley seeds for my fence herb baskets, although I didn't need an entire pack for that.
David, do you need any parsley seeds? Let me know and I'll bring them to you when I pick you up this evening. Anyone else need any? I'm sure no one person needs a full pack of parsley seeds.
And tonight is 'Special Dinner' night for a certain young son of mine!