Monday, February 4, 2013

Day 30 of 365

Sunday, a few more flakes of snow swirling around.
  • Low: 30° F
  • High: 52° F

Today sunny for a little while.
  • Low: 29° F
  • High: 51° F

Our neighbor has a huge pile of wood chip mulch and told Dan to take as much as he wanted. We got two pick-up truck loads today. I can never have enough mulch.

Sprayed all our fruit trees with dormant oil and sulfur. I was rather annoyed to discover that dormant oil is simply mineral oil. I'd looked all over for it and finally mail ordered it. I could have bought mineral oil at Walmart for a fraction of what the dormant oil cost. There is an organic non-petroleum dormant oil, but it was exceedingly expensive, so I didn't get that.

Butchered our extra rooster. He had became a real ruckus raiser. Immediate calm descended on the flock as soon as the deed was done. Dan barbecued the leg quarters for dinner. I froze the rest.

Harvested turnips to roast for dinner too.

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