Nice Spring weather in these parts - yesterday we woke up to a good rain
shower then it was overcast for most of the day with a high around 65. Today it
has been clean, windy and temperature still hanging around 65. I have heard
they have lots of wind here and today is the first that I remember in the year
that we have been here.
I did manage to increase the size of my weed - burn pile. We have lots of
weeds and I try to keep ahead of them, not a good race, they win hands down.
Yesterday, I did the trimming and today I mowed. I changed the deck belt on the
mower yesterday, the old belt seem stretched so I went ahead and changed it out,
process was pretty simple and straight forward. I was going to change out the
blades as well but did not have a 15/16 socket for box end wrench. The old
blades are dull so got a new set to cycle back and forth. The old ones seem to
cut fine - just like to have them sharp.
We got irrigation water on Monday of last week, they only had it running
for 2 hours, supposed to be 4 and that was not enough time to get it covered.
Still have issues with the coverage - really can't do much with it until we are
up here full time. When we arrived on Tuesday l was looking around and found my
two containers that I used to block the water on the culverts in the bask were
laying by the bask fence, next the adjacent pasture. The people down gradient
from us must not like the reduction in water flow? I called our irrigater
yesterday and asked him about the issue. He said there are two properties down
stream from that ditch that get water from the water district. Last year one of
these folks came onto the back pasture and installed a sheet metal section
adjacent to the canal to keep the water from entering my pasture. The water
district came in and removed that - I talked with the fellow and he said he had
asked the water district to help with the water flow and they came in and banked
up the canal a little to keep it from overflowing. Of course that keeps the
water from entering my pasture for irrigation. That is when I installed the
containers, I put them in the culverts, and they worked great to slow the flow
of water and let it overflow onto the pasture. Watch this space - it will take
some time to get this worked out.
Kathy is busy with decorating and she is also putting re posting her stuff
on Etsy - got a sale today. It seems that when she is active and has current
listings that things seem to sell pretty good. She has resigned from the board
of Redding Handmade - she is still a member but not on the board. She was
spending lots of time as the site moderator - not much support or help from the
others. She enjoyed the activity but it was more time consuming than beneficial
to her.
Played golf twice that week, they plugged and sanded the greens so the
putting was a little rocky. The wind did blow both days and the temperature was
approaching 80 each day. It was nice to get out - the course was not very busy,
things do seem to slow down a little when the temperature start to climb. I got
invited to play this week end at a course in Stockton - that would have been fun
but did not work with our schedule . I was also trying to get John out for golf
this week end here - wanted to treat him for watching over the roof project.
They had a tourney at Golf Hill so we will have to put that off for another
day.
Not much else for news - - hope you have a great week.
More later
Ron, Kathy and Tessie
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