The official Status Update thread #209....So this is spring...???

[DoggyDaddy]

Yes and the temps are falling. We may cover some of the plants again tonight.

I was wondering about that. I think I'll go ahead and put the hanging baskets up on the deck and into the garage. I'll see what the weather forecast looks like this evening before I make a decision on the tomatoes and the front planter.

 

[bcannon]

24mph wind and 50° & flt 42° here. Not the spring weather I want.

 

[GregD]

Serbia has only had 213 deaths for the whole country. It looks like they have had just over 10K cases. He has been mostly staying in his studio/apartment and working on projects, applications, grants, etc. He only goes out for groceries and such since he has suffered from asthma since he was an infant and would be high risk if he got the virus.

They look to be doing very well in all of this. Glad to hear that for him!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

24mph wind and 50° & flt 42° here. Not the spring weather I want.

Just gotta make it past the middle of the week. Supposed to be close to 80 by Saturday.

Went ahead and put 5 gallon buckets over the tomatoes and the baskets are all taken care of. Now just have to decide about the planter. Of course I just washed the old sheet I used the other night.

 

[Sigblitz]

I've been pushing a shovel into my hand the last 2 days and the blister is painful. The handle is a fiberglass pipe with a piece of rubber on the end.

My wife is making tenderloins. We're not eating out, and she won't eat my cooking.

 

[Sigblitz]

I have 1/3 of a 22' circle leveled. Lot of work for a pool.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Howdy Sig!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I have 1/3 of a 22' circle leveled. Lot of work for a pool.

Did you have to cut the sod away too? That is a lot of work!

 

[Sigblitz]

Hi DD. I should peak in the kitchen.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Went ahead and covered the planter. Better safe than sorry.

 

[Sigblitz]

Did you have to cut the sod away too? That is a lot of work!

Yes. The flat shovel is tearing me up. I might be too far into it to rent a sod cutter. There's about a third of that left.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I think the wind is dying now. I hope so anyhow.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Yes. The flat shovel is tearing me up. I might be too far into it to rent a sod cutter. There's about a third of that left.

Ugh. That doesn't sound like fun.

 

[Sigblitz]

I have a level screwed to a 11 1/2' board, clamped to a pole in the middle. It makes the leveling part easy.

 

[Sigblitz]

It will smooth it out real good when I put the sand on it.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Of course it's too late now, but I wonder if you could have just tilled it instead of digging the sod? The pool would kill any grass that wanted to come up after tilling and it might have been easier to level once it was all broken up. But it would have to be compacted before putting down the sand. I did that with my flagstone patio that I put in.

 

[Sigblitz]

My wife wanted to buy a tiller today. We never had one but rented one at Lowes.

 

[Sigblitz]

Homemade hand breading tenderloins. On of the kids is here bearing gifts, so she turned heat down.

 

[Sigblitz]

If you forget mother's day, you get put on a permanent list.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Homemade hand breading tenderloins. On of the kids is here bearing gifts, so she turned heat down.

Don't turn the heat down if you're frying them. They'll soak up the grease. Unless you like that.