We had banana bread and mini bagels before taking the dogs for a long walk to the irrigation ditch. We picked up glass fragments and rocks to polish in the tumbler.
After returning to the house, Cindy made biscuits and sausage gravy for a late breakfast.
Mark and Steve finished cutting up, hauling off and cleaning up the last downed cottonwood tree. They put the tractor implements back along the fence around the chicken lot and made sure that there were no places in the fence for chickens to get out or predators to get in.
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| Jade posing at the pond |
Earlier in the summer, Mark had a problem with trout dying in the pond. The water is over 30 feet deep which should be deep enough to keep the water cool enough for trout. A few weeks ago, he added additional aeration to the pond which should help. We used Vernier probes to assess dissolved oxygen, temperature and pH, all of which came well within the requirements for rainbow trout. Mark bought a water temperature sensor for his Ambient Weather Station. This probe measures the temperature of the water at a depth of ten feet and sends the data to the weather station’s app.
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| Wolf skin in Whittington's living room |
Mark bought several Wyze security cameras for the Idaho property, and we placed them in and out of the house to monitor the property when they are away. The security camera on the back of the house has a solar panel to power the camera even if the electricity is out.
We had an afternoon snack of tortilla strips then Cindy paid bills and took care of paperwork while Mary worked on notes for this journal and watched Sunday church service.
Mark cooked a tri-tip and grilled asparagus for dinner, and Cindy fixed bruschetta.
After dinner we watched two episodes of Good Karma Hospital on Acorn TV then turned in for the night. It was nice to have a more relaxing day after travel and taking trees down.
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