Busy Busy weekend at the Koskorgul Homestead. Not much for pepper updates though.
Started out saturday morning with a drive to Toys R Us to look at swingsets, Didnt see any there so we went to walmart. They dont even carry them, you can order online and have it delivered to the store or your house. Wanted to get it setup and ready to go that day, so walmat was out. BUT..... they had all of their plants on sale, buy one get one free, so we picked up 2 cayanne, 2 red bell, 2 yellow bell and 2 orange bell pepper plants. Picked up some more perlite and peat moss while we were there also. Next stop Kmart to check out swing sets. They have the one we want and wouldnt ya know it, Out of stock, good news, more plants onsale buy one get one. Start checking them out but nothing I watned to add to my grow. We asked the sales person if the store in Enola had them in stock. They have 4 in stock so we pack everyone back into the van and head back to the store that is 5 mins from the house. We called ahead so they already had the swingset up front at the registers. In and out in 10 mins, and yes they had their plants on sale also buy one get one. I did a quick once over as I was only looking for some lettuce.. Get back to the house, change into something more stylish and strt in on the swing set. My son helped me getting everything together when we realized that the little safety caps that go on the engs of the bolts just dont slip on, they actually go on the bolts under the screw, sorta like a washer, then flip over and cover the end of the bolt. We had been at it for about an hour or so when we realized this so we had to go back through and undo each bolt, put the cap on, and then re tighten the screw. FUN FUN FUN. By this time my daughter is starting to wake from her nap so I start pushing to get it done as I wanted it to be ready when she got up. Well I didnt have the slide on just yet but we brought her out and she couldnt get out of her moms arms fast enough to get to the swing set. We bought her a toddler swing seat and she ran to it. My gf picks her up and starts pushing her as I finish up on the slide. While putting the swing set together I fired up the smoker to start smoking some peppers, Had picked up some apple, pican, cherry, and some jack daniels wood chips. Between the swing and trying to smoke my batch of peppers I ended up over smoking the first batch. I kept checking it over and over again but it got to hot. I only lost like 5 or 6 of the peppers to complete ash, LOL. I threw some more peppers on it. tossed some more chips in and sprayed the coals with some water. 2nd batch turned out better but it still got to hot. Pulled them all off and finsihed in the dehydrator.
So back to the grill. Pour in some charcoal, grab the lighter fluid, bone dry. Thinking quick I grab a piece of paper and a small piece of wax. wrap the wax in the paper, set it in the grill, pile some charcoal around it and then some small kindling. Light paper and watch as it burns down, melts the way and then starts to burn nice. Catches the kindling and soon I am starting to get the coals going. Well the only coals that were lit were the ones in the very center, not good enough. I grap the tiki tourch fluid and pour just a small amount around the edges, get a piece of paper lit and touch that off. Wait a few mins to make sure all of the tiki torch fluid is burnt off, throw the steaks on. Did i mention that the whole time I was messing with the grill I had stuff on the stove turned down low so not to burn it. Well that didnt work out to well. They got a little chard on the bottom. Basically it was a potato cut in half length wise, score like a checker board, salt pepper and some butter. Can then either bake or fry them. So dinner is finish I can finally relax. I grab a quick shower, head back outside and fire up the fire pit. Get a few beers in me when the neighbors come over asking if I had seen anyone suspicious. They had their double stroller stollen off of their front porch , along with their neighbors stroller and a bike from the house across from them. They eventually found them the next day, there were 2 little girls 7 and 9 playing with them about 3 blocks away. So that was saturday fun fun
Forgot to mention that I had to cut the grass before putting the swing set together. Get down to the very last bit and hit a tree stump. Bent the crap out of the blade so I had to use the weed wacker to finish up. After the swing set was done I took the blade off so I could get it replaced.
Sunday, we head out to the grocery store, another store, gas station, hardware store and the grocery store for some peppers for that nights dinner. Get back, unload the groceries, put the new blade on the mower, finish cutting grass. Sit down to take a small break and figure whileI am doing that I can mix some soil. So I grab my supplies, go to sit down and see a rabbit in my one garden. I go down to chase it out and see if I can find out where it got in at. He gets down to the end of the garden and actually squeezes through the fence. Not good. I had no problems with the rabbits as they stayed out of the garden. Now I have a huge problem. I go inside and grab my wrist rockets and ammo. Head back outside to start in on my soil mixing. I look up and there he is. heading up the walkway, makes a 90 degree turn and heads towards the garden. I pick up the wrist rocket, load it up. grab a few extra shots, just in case, I am a decent shot but wanted to be ready. I head down to the yard, take aim, and let er fly. I hit it in the back, as it starts to try and get away I run up and put my boot on its head and give a quick little jerk to snap its neck. Yes I felt bad but if it wouldhave stayed out of the garden it would have been left alone. I grab a shovel and bury it.
So I finish up with making the soil mix, plant all of the peppers I had just gotten the day before and fire up the grill again, yes I had bought some fluid LOL. decided to make chicken, peppers and onions and my BBQ sauce. Sit down to eat and finally get a small break. I go out to smoke a cig and figured what the hell I can get an hour or so in the garden, I start to pull weeds, neighbors show up and talk for about an hour about how they found their stroller. Head back inside, grab another smoke and start weeding again. I finally finished up with weeding. Go back inside, grab a shower and get about 30 mins to relax when I have to go back utside and start watering everything. Finally get done for the day, it is pushing 9pm, time for the baby to go to bed. Get her in bed for about 15 mins and she is up again. have to stay up with her playing, trying to tire her out. Finally 11 pm rolls around and everyone heads to bed. Thankfully the weekend finally ended LOL
hehehe, we’re in the same boat, I woke up to sun and an hour later it was down pouring sky water. Now it’s sunny again and not sure if that will hold up … we’re in our rainy season for sure down south.
