Finished the Post and Cross Beams

The first workday after changing to daylight savings.  The greenhouses are an hour colder.

The sweet potato cutting has got some nice roots.  Next week it will be in a nursery pot in house two next week.

Carol and I went to the graveside services for Carol Masner's mother.  It was pretty cold with a little breeze.  We bought some flowers last week.

These are the flowers.  I was a pallbearer and Carol offered the closing prayers.  

I took one picture of the visiting after the graveside services.

There is a wire on both sides of posts and cross beams.  The are near the top of the post.  I cut a small narrow oak into three inch pieces.  A hole was drilled  in both ends.  I screwed this piece across the wire which held the post in a plumb position. I first screwed it light so move the post left or right.  When it was plumb, I tightened the screws.  I did that for all the posts.  

I also raised the cross beams so it touched the greenhouse bows.  This will help hold the snow load.  I did this to four of them.  The other one was close to a fan.  

Sometimes I had to dig some of the soil away from each side of the post.  Some time I had slide the post forward or backward before it was plumb.

I backfilled around all the post and tamped the soil tight.

I moved the tiller from house three to house six.  I will be tilling on the south side of house six.

I planted another row of Kale. I stretched a string from east to west sixteen inches from the first row.  I then dug a hole every twelve inches with a shovel.  I dropped plants in every hole started with the second hole on the west.  I put on exam gloves to keep my hands from getting dirty.  I started on the west end, cleaned out the hole with my hand, and took the plant from the hole at my right, and stuck it in the first hole.  I continued this until I got to the east end.   This is a good picture of the finished cross pieces.

The first tray of kale were in jumbo packs.  The second tray was in small six packs.  On the left of the above photo are the jumbos and on the right are the small six packs.

Here is the completed row.   I then laid down a dripline, plugged the west end and hooked the east end to the water feed line.    Another look at the finished cross pieces.  

One more picture of the home that is being built a cross the street.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Finished, Almost

I didn't have much time to work today, because of our Manti Utah temple assignment.  I got ready a little before eleven.   I made a plywood strap to replace the broken one.

I had two hoops for growing cucumbers.  I unhooked the north side and moved it to the south.  That gave me room to stand up the last cross piece.

The plywood strap is holding the cross piece to the legs.  

I finished the cross brace.  I stood it up part way and rested it on the step ladder.  I then tied a heavy piece of twine and pulled it up somewhat straight.  

As I pulled it up the legs slid into the hole that I had previously dug.


Comments and questions are welcome.

Snow and House Six

It was still dark when I  woke up this morning, which is the way that it is every morning.  I a lamp on a timer.  It turns on each morning at 5:22.  After my morning shower, shaving, and scripture reading I helped Carol with breakfast.  I always watch the news.

There was just a trace of snow this morning, but later there was about two inches.  It snowed off and on all day.

Carol said, "Will do a little job for me."  I said that I would.  I didn't know what she wanted me to do.  The jade plant that I put in a bigger pot last week, was leaning over.  I fixed it and then it was leaning the other direction.  I tried putting a large stake in it.  The soil was to loose.  The pot has for holes in the rim for hangers.   I got some twine  and tied the branch to the front hole and another piece of twine to tie the branch to the left side hole.

Caught a slug which was about 1 1/2 inches long.

A couple of days ago I hauled some of the 2x4's into house six.  This afternoon I began put together, and I don't know what to call them.  They look like a support of a swing set.  The could look like one end of a close line.    The above picture shows the first of five that I put up.  I put it together while it is laying on the ground.  The cross piece is a sixteen foot long 2x6 held up by two treated eight foot 2x4's.

Last week I dug the holes for the 2x4's.  The pieces are pretty heavy.  I tried to lift one of the corners.  That didn't work.  Finally I lifted at the center and propped it up with five foot 2x6.  I got a eight foot 2x2 and lifted it all the way up.  It reached the metal greenhouse bows.

I assembled another one.  I did the same with this one except I pulled it up with a heavy piece of twine.  I tied the end of the twine  to the upright that I put up first.

 I couldn't go all the way because the corner hooked on the electrical line going to the fan.  I went back to the house to get step ladder.  I could then reach the electrical line and move it to the other side of the corner.

The third one was quite easy.

The corner of the fourth one broke.  I replace it with a new plywood strap.  

The snow covered the top of the greenhouse making it a little darker.  The photo is not to bright.

The same as above, but from one side.

Comments and questions are welcome.