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Some fun

  The other day we cooked out doors on the new deck. I fired up the grill and put on the hot dog roller.Then I sautees some onions and sweet pepper in butter


added some beer and brats and simmered for 15 minutes.


Letting the rollers do all the work.


  While I relaxed.

Tree planting

Start by staring into ComposT-Twin tumbler, to see if compost is ready to use after 1 year. Normal is 2 weeks.

First we planted the Rochester peach. Not shown is the new Mantis electric tiller tearing new a**holes in our clay & rocky soil. Worked great and saved a lot of time and effort. However, this what I looked like after working on only 2 holes.

Last to go in was the Green Gage plum. I have been looking for this for 2 years. Even had trouble finding it on the web, until I spelled as 2 words. It tuns out “Green Gages” were imported into England from France in 1724 by Sir William Gage. Finally it is in my yard.

Mantis

# Today: Windy…cloudy with rain and snow. High around 40F. Winds E at 25 to 35 mph. Chance of precip 90%. A slushy accumulation of around one inch.
# Tonight: Cloudy and windy at times with periods of rain. Low 37F. ESE winds at 20 to 30 mph, diminishing to 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall around a half an inch.
# Tomorrow: Light rain…mixing with snow in the afternoon. High near 40F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precip 80%.
# Tomorrow night: Snow showers early becoming more scattered later. Low 32F. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 40%.


  So of course this had to arrive. I assembled it on the kitchen table. Now it will tantalize   me until better weather.lI decided on the electric model because I have trouble pull starting gas engines now after all the chest and arm surgeries.