Getting Ready House Five

This morning I began work on the Holden Ward history.  I did edited the work that I had all ready written.  When finished with that I printed all of it.  Several months ago I printed a cover sheet.  I couldn't find it after looking all over the house several times.  I tried to print a new one and I couldn't do that either. 

This afternoon I watered my plants in house five.  I filled the sprinkling can three times.  Dustin Smith was there.  He moved the bench top I had used last year.

It was coming apart.  I put screws through the top into the 2x4's underneath.  Dustin brought the blocks over and put the under the bench top.  I moved it around some until I got it close to the north wall.

There is a lot of weeds inside the west half of house five.   I dug up a lot of them.  I hope to dig all of them up over the next couple of days.

Shane in house five planting more hemp.

I had him take a picture of me in house five.  It shows the large bandage on the right side of my face.

The second photo.

It is dry enough to work some in the garden.  I hope to plant Green Arrow peas tomorrow.

I called Robert to discuss options for a greenhouse.  I could build it by the strawberry plants or south of the garage.  It would be easier and quicker to do it south of the garage.

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Ninety Percent Finished

I worked on the bench some and took the car to Fillmore.

 

It is past time to have the car serviced.  I have added oil twice and is getting low now.  So instead of adding another quart of oil I took it to Fillmore.  It was finished in about thirty minutes to do it.

I bought some lag screws for the bench, and checked on our bank account at Zions Bank.

I picked up the mail. Carol got her new handicap sign.  It is good for two years.   The on above expires this month.

I needed to talk with Shane.  Walking out to house two, I saw two large horse trailers.  Shane was expecting some more hemp plants.  I thought they had come and were in these trailers. They were friends of Shane and stopped on their way to California.

The next thing for the bench was to install some shelf supports.  The table upside down on a pair of sawhorses.  The two supports are show in the above photo.

A pair of wood clamps tightened to either leg and the support is resting on the clamps while I drive some screws through the support.

I attached the bench frame to the legs by drilling two holes through the fame into the leg,  I did that far each leg.  Over half the time I hit a screw from the other direction.  I backed out the screw and screwed in the lag screw.  Then I screwed the other screw.  If that makes much sense.

I found a piece of plywood and was able to cut a piece for the back.

I ripped another sheet in half and was able to make the two shelves..


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Bench is Over Half Finished

Breakfast and new as usual.

Yesterday, I took some of the things our of house four.  I wanted to take them to the shed, but it was to muddy.   I took them to the shed the first thing this morning because the mud was frozen.  There is a rope, chicken waterer, some large PVC caps, then a lot of lead drippers.  There was a couple of other things.

A little after breakfast, Shane called me and needed to shut off the water.  A water pipe broke and was running water all over.  The photo is taken later in the day shows where the pipe broke. They were in the process of fixing it.

Dusting is putting in  a union and several couplers.  They then took much of the injector and pipes apart to fix the leaks.

The photo above shows the legs of the new bench that I am building.  I made them a little long.  One is quite short.  I figured that it would the correct length.  

Carol had an appointment with her ophthalmologist at 11:20 this morning.   I stopped work on the bench and we drove to Fillmore.  While Carol was waiting, I went to Zions Bank where a deposited some money.  I also bought some glue at Ropers.   We came home and sloppy Joes made out of meat loaf.

I fasted a square piece of 1/2 plywood to the top of each leg.  I then fasted the plywood to the table base.  Then I put the door on top of that as pictured in the photo above.  It appears from the photo that the bottom of the legs are facing inward.  The table was to tall.  I took the legs of the table and cut them to the same length of the short leg.  

I fastened the legs back of with plywood fasten to the legs and table frame/  It is illustrated in the above photo.  The table was about 1/16 inch to tall.

I removed the legs again and cut off a little more than 1/16.   I removed the legs only.  The plywood remained attached to the frame.

I put it all back together.  It was just right.  The miter slider slid just barely above the bench top.  As before it would it the bench top and stop.

Here is the nearly finished bench.  Tomorrow, I am going to build two shelves for tool storage.  The sawhorses will be kept outside on the patio for awhile.


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More Work on the New Bench

I wanted to get the legs put together on the new workbench.  I had to make a notch in each leg.  Each leg had two 2x4's.  I screwed one to the other one.  I can't make the notch when they are screwed together.  I took them apart.

It was hard to hold the wood to the fence and cut both sides of the notch.  I made a jig which you see in the above picture.  The jig out of a square piece of plywood.  I cut off one of the corners which left a space where I could hold with my right hand.   One the end opposite of the hand I attached a small board.  I can then clamp the leg to the jig and easily cut one side of the notch.  I turn the leg around and cut the other side of the notch.  The width has to match the size of the inserted board.  I made a lot of cuts to get it right.  I still didn't get it right, but I was close enough to make it work.  I spent most of the morning trying to get a perfect fit.  There were a couple where I got a perfect notch. 

I began to build the other legs.   I drilled six holes the first board.  I then counter sunked them.  Last I screwed them together.  I clamped the 2x4's to keep them from moving while I drilled in some screw.  I did the others the same way.

I drove to Fillmore to make a deposit, buy a few groceries, and get another drill bit.  I needed to screw in the caster bolt.   I made a hole in the piece of oak.  It was easy to screw in the caster.

The notch in the first leg was to wide.  When I glue it together I put in some shims.  The photo there is a large going under the notch.  I glued in a shim.   I left it for the night.   I will cut off the ends of the shims tomorrow.  


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Completed One Thing After Another

Watched the new, had breakfast, and went to work.

Yesterday, when I let the chickens out of the hen house, there was a lot of water running.  The above picture is pretty fuzzy, but there was a breach in the pipe in the center and a little bit to the left.  I shut off the water and  started to dig up the pipe.  I had to bail out a lot of water, but finally got it.

I dug up the pipe and pulled it loose.  Inside the ell there is a white PVC that brings the water from house four.  It is a pretty muddy mess.  I washed the two ends that will be joined together.  I went to work on another project to let it dry up.

Last week I covered the carrots with black folded weed barrier.  This morning I began building a poly cover.

The above photo shows the completed project.  Under the poly is the black weed barrier, and under that are the carrots.  They will be protected from and freezing this winter.

I made weights out of several 2x4's that were nearly seven feet long.  There are two pieces on each side.  The poly is put between the two pieces and held together by screws.  

There were two conduit pipes that were two tall.  One on each side.  I pulled the up and cut off about twelve inches.  I then drove them into the ground so the top was a little bit below the to of the raised bed.  The poly easily covers the weed barrier s show in the photo at the beginning of this section.  

Back to the chicken run and the water pipe.  It was pretty dry.  I applied cement two each end of the pipe, pushed them together, and twisted a little so the hose bib was pointed up.  I was going to turn on the water tonight but forgot.

I cut down the rest of the corn on this row which was frozen several weeks ago..  I put it on a compost pile north of the north garden.

 I found four ears of corn that looked like they might be good eating.  I got a picture of only one.  I ate one for lunch which tasted pretty good.  There is a possibility of  a late planting of corn that matures and then there is a frost the kills the corn.  It could it stay in the garden and few ears could be picked each day for dinner.

I stacked these tree baskets on a piece of plywood.

I am considering making a lean to greenhouse either on the west side of the garage or the south end of the garage.

I have five fifty-five gallon barrels that could be filled with water and place inside of the greenhouse to help keep the green house warm during the winter.  A bench would  be on top of the barrels.

Five upright barrels side to side in straight line would require a greenhouse fifteen feet wide.

The above photo is at the south end of the garage.  If the greenhouse were place here there could be three barrels on the west side and two barrels on the east side.  Benches could be on top of the barrels.

Now to house six.  The elder berry shrub was cut down several weeks ago.  It took me a couple of hours to remove all of the branches and leaves.

I started picking up a couple of branches and carried them to house five.  Instead, I got the tarp and filled it with branches and leaves and drug it to the shredder.  It took several trips.  I made several trips with the wheel barrow full of leaves and short stems.

I cut off all the branches almost to the ground.  Then I painted the stems with round-up.

I cut the large trunks that were on the out side.  I also painted them with round-up.

I cleaned up all the stems and leaves and put the bench on four blocks.


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Warmer, Planting, Watering, Trapping

We drove to Fillmore this morning and washed our car.  It was really dirty and now looks really good.

Carol has been working on this puzzle for several days and finished today.

The warmer days has melted the ice in house six.  I drug the hose to the west end and turned on the sprinkler and watered the north side of house six.  There are millions of seeds and hopefully they will begin germinating.  I can kill them before we plant some carrots.

While the water was running I transplanted the broccoli into the jumbo six packs.

I removed the sticks that I put down to capture snails and slugs.  There weren't any.  

I planted Swiss Chard, Kale,  lettuce and a few others.  The picture is full of vermiculite.  I put a half teaspoon on each seed.

There were a few different tomato seeds where I use one or two six packs.

I took a picture of three radishes that had be damaged by what I thought were slugs and snails.  I put this photo on the Utah Homesteader's Face Book page.  There were ten comments and most said that they have been eaten by mice.  I put out three traps and baited them with small roast beef strips from Sunday dinner.  

This pole bean plant has been damaged by some caterpillar.  There are five other plants with the same symptoms.  

I took an other picture of the sprinkler.  I shut off the water.  The pathway has a lot of water on it.

Last week I made this stool, but it didn't have a top.  I cut a nineteen inch piece off a 1/2 inch sheet of plywood.  I cut it to size of 18 inch square.  I had a problem of getting it centered on the plywood top.  I decided put down some glue the top to the base.  I put a heavy weight on it to hold the legs to the base.  Tomorrow I can remove the weight and drive some screws through the top into the legs and rails.

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