4th of July week started off with a bit of a fiasco. As explained in this video, I put a beef brisket in the wood pellet smoker at 11P, and at 2A I was awakened by alarms blaring all over the house. Apparently, the winds were such that carbon monoxide from the smoker (on the porch) flowed into the house and accumulated to hazardous levels, which triggered the “whole house” alarm system to detect and announce the hazard. So, the dogs and I slept (or, at least tried to) outside on the patio.
Spend the 4th with my neighbors. We hung out in their pool … even as a thunderstorm (lightening & thunder) passed overhead. Mother Nature had her own firework show. Pretty cool.
Migrated the 15 ducklings out of the bard stall and into a fenced in duck habitat around the smaller of our two ponds. They seem REALLY happy to be outside. Eating like little piggies, getting big, just now starting to feather up.
Tilled the ‘park’ to flatten out all the plow furrows and get it ready for seeding next month. Broke the PTO shaft on the tractor the first day and had to replace it. Paid a bit more attention to how “cut down” the length of the shaft to make it about 2 o 3 inches longer than the previous shaft. Works like a charm.
Decided to build a new garden infrastructure to allow for 40 to 50 5-gallon buckets to be distributed in rows of ten buckets, 4 feet between each bucket, with a 3 foot path between each row.
Overall, a pretty productive week … given my general aversion to heat and humidity. Had to take a few days “off” to recover from too much heat exposure, but it all worked out.