Sunday, October 04, 2020

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
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

 

 

So, I've been trying to get the blog post alerts working and I think I got it. BUT, You have to follow by email!  It's on the upper right side of my Blog screen.  

LOOKS LIKE THIS!

Put in your email address, push submit, that'll subscribe you!

That's really all...


Wednesday, September 16, 2020

September 16th

September Ramblings

 

Went to the shooting range last weekend, found out the scope on my 10/22 was bad, Jarrod replaced it with one off his rifle, and it's driving tacks now.

It's supposed to rain on Thursday we need the rain real bad, it's literally a dust bowl around here, I've never seen it this dry,  it rained a whole tenth of an inch, this month so far.  We're right on the border of an extreme drought here in New Boston.

 

We picked the last of the winter squashes yesterday, we found a Buttercup and another Butternut we'll have to cook up.  We picked the last two handfuls of blackberries yesterday too,  I can already smell the blackberry cobbler.

Rose is squashed out... she put up nearly 100 bags of summer and winter Squash this year, that's on top of all the other beans, broccoli, peppers, etc.  We have Swiss Chard and Kale remaining in the garden, otherwise it's done for the year, so garden cleanup commenced today we'll have a couple more trailer loads of refuse to pull out, spent tomato plants, squash vines, etc. We took some summer and winter Squash over to Jarrod's house on Saturday, we simply don't have any more room in our freezers.

This plant we found out is Virginia creeper, it's growing all over the garden fences.  Rose gets poison Ivy type rashes from the plant, I don't think it does anything to me but not looking to find out either.



We released Robin the Robin last weekend over in Hillsborough, the climate is much wetter there, nothing like the dust bowl we have going on here at all. (Funny it's only 45 minutes away) The ground in Hillsborough is actually damp. 

I took apart the Pellet stove and got it cleaned for the fall/winter season.  I was sitting here Sunday morning it's cool outside so I started the pellet stove up to take the chill off. Feels good to have the heat without starting up the furnace.  It was 44 degrees this morning in New Boston on 9/16.

The Canadian Geese are back in the fields locally, seems too early for them to be here.

Got the Tucson back from the shop, needed front and rear brakes, almost $800 later...

We re-installed the new front porch railings, came out pretty good I think.

This guy seemed to like the new porch railings

Finally able to make it down to the pond, quite overgrown, pond is VERY low.  Water Well concerns continue

 

 

Sunday, September 13, 2020

A Bear Strolled Through

A Bear Strolled Through on Friday Afternoon

We had a Black bear stroll through the field on Friday 8/21, I only had my cell phone so the pics aren't the best.

He was in a bit of a hurry...

Today is the Weare town-wide Yard sale we may do a drive around



















 

SEPTEMBER!

SEPTEMBER! The hummingbirds are still here, we're filling the feeders for them daily.  The Oriole's stuck around this year and are s...