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This past week here in Central Missouri has been mostly gray and a bit damp, but we’ve received no appreciable amount of rainfall. The sun popped out for awhile yesterday which made for a nice day to get some chores done outside. Weather guessers are saying there’s a good chance for thunderstorms here tomorrow so maybe we will get a drop or two then.

The water is down so far that I had to use the tractor to put the little boat into the pond yesterday so I could pull the deep diffuser out for the winter. I gave it a good scrubbing and reset it shallow to maintain a bit of open water when the weather gets cold.

Spent a little time in the greenhouse yesterday reseeding the stuff that croaked while I was laid up with the covid. The salad stuff I put in the planter beds is starting to look like something. The turnips aren’t super happy but the lettuce, radishes, and spinach are doing well. Wish I’d gotten it going a couple weeks earlier than I did. I’ll know better next time.

I still need to pick up some lumber to frame the ends of my tunnel so the plastic will stay in place when the wind blows. If I can get that accomplished I’ll be able to get a serious jump start setting out my plants come spring.

I spent most of the afternoon yesterday cleaning up my workshop. I’m determined to finish up fixing on Mr. Clarence this winter so I can get him out of there and put him to work. Now that I can actually get to him that will be easier to accomplish.

In between the cleaning I hung up a few more 4’ LED light fixtures and repaired the outside porch light. It was one of those motion detector fixtures from Lowe’s. Those things are not worth the money. The motion detector bit craps out in less than a year, if it ever worked at all. I got tired of fighting with this one so I rewired it to just come on and stay on when I flip the switch.