Fall garden cleanup

Cutting down weeds in the unused part of the garden. We didn't have time to plant the corn that was supposed to go here. 

This stuff will be raked up and burned. The, if there's time, we will till and plant a cover crop. 

Siding almost done

Paint storage and disposal

Who knew you could store paint in a cottage cheese carton?

Turns out you can't. 

We are slowly disposing of a decade long collection of old paint. Latex can be dried out and thrown in the trash. Alkyd and other oil based paint has to be taken to hazardous waste disposal. 

Note: don't touch the paint while trying to blog with your phone. Lesson learned. 

At last, siding is going up

Turning compost

When you use a maddock to chop through the compost pile it might shoot an apple right out at you. 

More on siding and the ledger board

Back to the ledger board ... we had to get it up and flashed before the siding crew could progress on the north side of the house (which of course they didn't need to do until they had done all they could on the rest of the house). In the picture below you can't really see much but know that the strip of black with white letters on it is the rubberized membrane flashing over the 2x8 ledger board. We are ready to go.

Flashed ledger board

Make your own Apple Pole Picker

Found this with Google (of course). Almost all of our remaining apples are above what I can reach on a ladder. Plus having to get up and down a ladder all the time is a pain. So, I need about a 20' long pole and a liter or half-gallon bottle and I'll be in business.

Click this  video link.