White oak leafing out
On Sunday morning I was up at 5AM and got the post up. I headed to the barn to bring the pressure washer to the house with the lawnmower. But I could not find the pressure washer anywhere at all. No one has any idea where it might be. Sigh…
So scratch that idea, I’ll just have to use the hose and spray nozzle. So I went to bring the truck up instead and the battery was completely dead. Well, I was 0 for 2 so far.
So I came back to the house and started prepping for doing windows. The grills in the windows come out for easier cleaning. But they are old and don’t stay together very well.
I long ago learned to hold them at the join when cleaning them. I was doing this and the join I wasn’t cleaning came apart and fell on the floor and broke. Sigh… 0 for 3… So I went and got some glue and repaired it.
I got as many windows ready as I could but my brother still was not up. So I took out the windows in the old office and got the frames cleaned and washed the upper storm windows and got the screens in. The main double hung frames were too heavy for me to work with.
That was as far as I could get until he got up. He finally got up at 8AM and we went up to the barn to jump the truck. It turns out that when we checked the lights on Saturday morning for getting it inspected on Tuesday, he forgot to turn them off. So we brought the truck up and got it positioned by the Small garden gate and left it running. We planned to set a timer, but we both forgot by the time we got inside.
We finally got started on the windows. There were a few more mishaps, but we had the 4 crucial windows washed by 9:45AM.
I headed out to get started in the garden and realized we’d left the truck running all the time. Well, the battery would be charged anyways…
Just as I was shutting it off, Tom arrived and started loading the wood holding the tarps down into it. I got changed (because I was going to get soaked washing tarps) and he had the truck just about loaded when I got out there.
We moved it up to the woodshed where it would be unloaded later. Then we set about getting leaves on to the tarps and dragging them over to dump over the bank.
We did the biggest one first and while I was washing that, he dragged over more and dumped them. He helped me get that big one on the clothesline and then we got the reverse side rinsed off.
I went back to washing tarps and he helped me get the next one on the line before he had to go. My #1 intern, his daughter, was running in a marathon with her brother–in-law at noon, 26K.
I got the remaining tarps washed, hung and rinsed by 12:30PM. I got cleaned up but the truck didn’t get unloaded. I was wiped out. I ate some lunch and was in bed by 1:30PM and dozed for a couple hours.
I watched ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’, made supper, and got a shower. About 7:45PM my general helper arrived with some of her stuff. We talked for a little while and I looked at the dozens of photos she had taken of the marathon.
She left about 8:15PM and I headed to bed.
On Monday I have an early appointment so no gardening as it’s to hit 89F. I have plenty of laundry to do, a kitchen to clean up, and those windows to finish. I also have to tend the seedlings from last Thursday’s seed starting, and water them all.