A Busy Weekend

 

A Busy Weekend

Been a busy couple of days

Septic tank was pumped out Friday, Zebulon was less than impressed...

 

We picked up the boys Saturday morning.

• Tires on the trailer were flat, Jason & James pumped them back up quick. I took a .22 caliber brass cleaning brush in a drill to the trailer connector to clean off the contacts. Lights lit up!  Trailer was filled this spring but due to Covid-19 our dump stopped taking all construction debris so they sent us home with the trailer full back in March so it sat in the field all summer.
• I got the award for the sketchiest trailer they had seen in a while at the dump! Yay me!
• Two trips to the dump were made today!  Old greenhouse parts, an old propane tank, a dead A/C and 8 or so car/tractor batteries. Paid $15 each for the A/C and the Propane tank... Yikes.
  
• House was inspected for town taxes, guy came and ran thru the house.
• While down by the dump made sense to take a quick trip over to Hayward's Ice Cream in Milford for a hotdog and a Chocolate Frappe.
• Picked up two new trailer tires at Tractor Supply the ones on the trailer were downright scary with cracks all over the sidewalls.
• Cut up some low hanging Poplar branches that threatened to close the driveway every time it snowed.

 

Tuesday 10/13 Amazon Prime Day we got some MUCH NEEDED RAIN!   Probably not enough, I'll go check the pond level later today.

 

Goffstown is having Halloween this year, should be cool, it's on a Friday, and it's a full moon too.  All I got to do is wear my mask right? Instant Costume!

We'll get a load of loam to start filling the holes the dogs dug for us this summer.

 

Stay Safe out there...

 

 

 

Notes from the Covid Bunker!

FROST

A forgotten post... it was stuck in drafts...

September 22nd frost last night 4th night in a row.

Fall chores in full swing, Rose took the Cabana down for the year

Hummingbirds have gone south

Still no rain in sight, the well is holding so far, knock on wood... 

Our well appears to be dry at this point, a local pond on Rt 114 is completely dry, no water at all, all you can see is mud.  Went down to our pond yesterday we still have a small volume of water in it, but with no wet weather in sight we're still concerned.

 Rose and I took a drive up to Hogback Mt. last week, nice view.

October already!

Our water well issues continue, we'll have some water in the morning not so much after that. The Laundromat is our friend now.  Times have changed, I remember $1.25 per load it's now $4.00 per load in the commercial machines, these things do a load in 23 minutes flat though so because we can still dry all of our clothes at home we're in and out in 30 minutes.

Strikes me funny what impresses me as I get older, how fast a clothes washer is, or how efficient the new 1.4 gallon toilet upstairs is...

Jarrod's Birthday today as I write this on Oct. 1st, he's 38 years old! 

Our pond is still really low (therefore our dug well). Our pond is normally 80' across, now is probably 20' across.  The water level must be down 12-16 feet. Our well is stone lined 9 feet in diameter and 19 feet deep, that's 9,042 gallons, normally a lot of water.

This is for Lisa, the stuff works great on Poison Ivy!

We've had four frosts since mid September time to pick the Kale still in the Garden.

Friday evening October 2nd went food shopping, Market Basket was packed, not sure if this is the 2nd panic wave the news is talking about, the checker said it had been like this since 9 AM that morning.  the shelf stockers were busy but most stuff seemed in good supply. 

I think our fall color is about done, we drove a bit north to Concord Saturday the 3rd and found mostly browns and very muted colors there. 

We'll start raking leaves today, oh, Hell No, no raking of leaves we'll be using the bagger on the mower to vacuum them all up and put them in the garden. Two hours later the yard is all Vacuumed up!  We'll have to do it again in two weeks as the Maples haven't lost all their leaves yet.

Zeb likes the leaves more than Hanna does

 

Rose is cutting back and pulling the weeds out of the various flower beds around the house and found this little toad had dug himself in for the fall.

We have a little friend on the back porch.  Sparrow that sits up under the back porch roof, he's there every night, and every morning when I let the dogs out before morning light.

  LOL

 

 

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