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Finally…Tomatoes

First there was the weather, then there was the broken tiller, then… did I mention the weather? My fool self forgot to empty the gas tank on the tiller last year. So… assuming that all was well I didn’t think to test out the tiller early in the season while it was still too wet to till. Nope, I waited till the day I wanted to get the tomatoes in to try the tiller. Realizing my mistake I tried carb cleaner, disassembling the carburator, emptying the tank etc all to no avail. Of course this was a Sunday and nothing was open.

Several weeks and rainstorms later I picked up the carb rebuild kit at the local mower shop and rebuilt the carb yesterday. I went ahead and added a fuel filter inline between the tank and the carb. It took a bit of tweaking so that the filter wouldn’t interfere with the linkage but I was able to get it worked out. Within a couple of seconds of putting everything back together we were running. Well, sort of. Actually running wasn’t the issue. Stopping seemed to be a problem. It turned out that the cable had seized up and didn’t want to allow the machine to idle. Much 3in1 oil (no wd40 around), cursing and begging and the cable was again working as it was supposed to.

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The tomatoes are in as are three short rows of Topcrop beans. All of the toms and two rows of beans are in a couple of fenced areas. Hopefully the deer and rabbit will honor the chicken wire. Either could get in if they really wanted to. One of the rows of beans were planted outside of the fence as kind of a test. Lets see how long they last. Typically they are removed as they get their first set of true leaves.

The rain we have been getting has really helped everything look great. I just love all the colors this time of year.

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A windy Sunday

We were pretty lucky Sunday. We kept our power and there was no major damage to the place. We did lose cable with a large limb fell on the line.

I moved the container plants together and closer to the house. The couple of fig trees with fruit went on the protected side of the house. It is a good thing I moved them as a large branch ended up falling where they were. The raspberry plants were stripped clean of ripe fruit and many of their leaves were shredded and burnt on the edges from the drying winds I guess. We didn’t get but a couple of drops of rain.

Just before the winds came I decided to lower the dead antenna. It had been taken out by a storm some time back (as was the one before it) and it had just been hanging there. The plan was to remove it when we took the A/C out of the window as the removal process necessitates me hanging out an upstairs window. When I heard about the winds that were coming I decided to go ahead and remove it so it wouldn’t blow around and hit the house. I don’t know what they make antennas out of these days that turns them into tree magnets. As it laid on the ground a broken branch landed on it.