Getting 'er done!

 7:52 am - Wednesday - February 25th - TWW - 48° F, humidity 39%, cloud cover 30%, wind 4 mph out of the south by southwest....cloudy this morning, but clearing later with a forecast high of 68° F.  The view this morning....

.....and on this date in 2021 TLE and I were installing my new Steelcase captains chair in the driving position in the Newell....

.....this new Steelcase is way more comfortable that the 39 year old original.

With temps back into the 60's we are getting outside to work by 10 am now, instead of 11 am, or 12 pm when it was it the 30's and 40's.  We're still only working 2-3 hours each day, but we seem to get so much done!  First up on the 'to do' list was to plant potatoes.  As you will recall we planted some potatoes last winter, but over the summer rabbits got into the fencing and devoured most of them.  Since then we have made improvements in our fencing by installing the old poly carbonate roof panels we took off the greenhouse to keep out the rabbits.  We'll see how that goes.....

TLE hoed the rows...

....and I planted the potatoes

Finished

....in all we planted 13 rows of various varieties of potatoes, and are looking forward to the results!

Next we began to move the metal pipes out of the field behind the chicken coop, and by 12 pm we had moved about half the stuff out there.  No need to move it all in one day....

Where the pipes were....

....and where they are now....sacked up on the back of the barn

....we'll move the rest of the metal on Thursday.

One of the metal items we relocated from the field behind the chicken coop was the stand for the cement mixer.  When we moved the cement mixer the other day we didn't realize this base belonged to the cement mixer, but figured it out later....

.....TLE loves her 'lawn art'!

Satisfied with our accomplishments for Tuesday we began our walk back to the Newell, but stopped short when we walked past the glass table and umbrella.  The umbrella was damaged in one of our recent windstorms, and needed to be repaired, plus we wanted to move the table further away from our woodpiles.....

....it took us about 30 minutes to fix the umbrella, and is now providing shade for us once again.  By this time it was 12:30 pm, and we had worked 2.5 hours....perfect!

I spent a few hours on the 'lido deck' reading, and listening to music, but I decided I was not done with my work day yet.  I was thinking about the gas control regulator for the Sea-B-Que, which I had determined was the cause of propane not getting to the burner.  I decided to remove it again, and soak it in Aero Kroil (penetrating oil) for a couple of hours to, hopefully, eliminate the blockage.....

....I reinstalled it just before dinner (4 pm), and turned on the propane, then lit the burner.....SUCCESS!  Not sure why I didn't think of this before, but it worked.  I will still install the new gas control regulator as it is newer, and gives me more heating settings than the current one which just has low and high.....nothing in between.

For the 3rd successive evening we headed out to the 'sunset fire deck' to see what kind of light show nature would provided this evening....

....it wasn't spectacular like the previous two sunsets, but was interesting.  We remained by the fire until just after 7 pm when we headed inside for the night.

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