In January it was getting harder to keep the porch warm, so we ran a lightweight rope shortways along the ceiling and hung a couple of pieces of row cover fabric from it - folded over the rope and secured with big safety pins, and used vintage glass and ceramic insulators to weigh down the bottom edges. This reduced the space we were heating by 8' ( Read more... )

Didn't enter the fabrics-store contest, as we ended up working on clearing up the area around the greenhouse for the neighbor's first house showing, plus some yard work in the front yard. Oh, and we moved a fancy metal arbor over to our place (has gates and side planter stands), as well as a really cool fish statue. It can be a fountain but I like ( Read more... )

Lyle got the rest of the walls up today, just minutes before snowfall ( Read more... )

Construction going slowly, but we do have another wall section up on the porch. Did some work on it yesterday, to secure what we'd already put up; bitter cold, but we didn't want to lose the work we've done so far. Saturday would have been a perfect day for this project, but we had the Gray family Thanksgiving. That was a good time though, lots of ( Read more... )

Sprayed three containers black for passive solar. One is old maple sap gathering can (was used for transporting sap from our buckets up to the farm. Need a new one anyway, with a better cap). Two are buckets that kitty litter came in.

Watched fitzw put up more insulation and another wall panel. Yay ( Read more... )

Got the last piece of plastic up in the greenhouse porch today, including putting up some lath and scrap wood in a few places to keep the plastic from billowing (which it isn't doing too much of, but...) fitzw did some insulating in the garage ( Read more... )

Worked yesterday, no work today or tomorrow. A bit stiff and achey today, so I don't really mind having the days off. Besides, it gives me more time to work on the court doc for Concordia and other stuff ( Read more... )

Concentus practice Sunday was pretty good, even with not everyone there. We practiced one of the new pieces more, so Pagan and I are feeling a little more confident -- although we still have to work on the French pronunciations more... Then prince_hring played us some music from his collection on his new iPod, through our stereo (connected to a really big ( Read more... )

Most of the things that belong in the studio are now there. We need some hooks, shelving, and blinds, but it's getting there. Have to sand and re-polyurethane the threshhold between the two halves -- wind blew fuzzy bits all over it, and then I stepped on it and left two very clear shoe prints on it. Looking good!

fitzw also used renoferret's table saw ( Read more... )

Confirmed that if there isn't someone scheduled at near enough to start or finish time,of shift, that part of the shift will be nipped off to cut down on office overhead.
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