New Furnace

A regular morning.  Scriptures, Breakfast, and Greenhouses.  Andrew Brown called and said that he would be here to install the new furnace 8:30 to 9:00.  He didn't get here until eleven.  I took out the two wheeled cart.  Andrew and his helper loaded the furnace on the cart.  He pulled it to house five.  They removed all of the wirering, gas connection, and the chimney from the old furnace.  That took some time.  They removed the packing material and put it on the metal frame where the old was.

They put the new furnace on its side on the frame.  They made a new hole for the chimney.  It was to high.  We pulled away the wood that was underneath which lowered the furnace.  They then put the chimney through the hole.  They made other adjustments.

The above photo shows the new position of the chimney. It took a few more adjustments before it was securely fasten to the east wall of the greenhouse.

The old furnace moved out of the way.  It soon will be at the dump.

I uncovered the plants that were laying on the ground.  They were in good condition.  I rolled up the piece of weed barrier leaned it against the inside west wall.

Shane helped me stand up the palm tree. We pulled it out of the pot and put in new soil so it would stand straight.  We put in to much soil.  We took some out and it is standing pretty straight by leaning against the door header. 

There was a three foot wide piece of weed barrier that was at least a hundred feet long.  I laid it on the back lawn.  I was able to fold it several times and then roll up the last little bit.  A piece of twin is holding it from unrolling.

The Mike Blazard garage is nearly finished.

The furnace was on this pallet.  I started to take it apart and use the wood.  I gave up.   I couldn't pull out the nails.

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House Temp - 64 Degrees

Strange morning.  I always turn the temperature the first thing in the morning.  Just before we go to bed I set the temperature at 65 degrees.  This morning it was 64 degrees.  I turned it up and down several times and the furnace didn't come on.  I put on my clothes and a coat.  I thought that the battery in the thermostat might be dead.  I replaced the batteries and it didn't help.  A little after seven, I called Andrew Brown who is the one that fixes furnaces.  He was going up north and would stop on at our place on the way.  After breakfast I went under the house to turn the light on.  It didn't come on.  Now, I know that the reason that the furnace would not work was because there was no power.

I checked the circuit breaker several times.  I could see nothing wrong.  There was one switch that was off.  I turned it on and nothing happened.  I turned it back off.

I went back to  circuit breaker.  There is not much light.  When I had my flashlight on, I could see that the bottom of the list was no. 14.  It was off.  I turned it on and the furnace came on. By now the temperature was 62 degrees.  I took a couple hours to warm up.  

We drove to Fillmore so Carol could get and other container of eye drops.  That didn't take long.  We then came right home.

I began working on the shed.  The sole plate wasn't long enough to reach the last stud from yesterday and the corner post on the left.  I cut a piece out and needed put a piece 11 15/16 inches long.  I got one and it was too tight.  I cut off a little bit.

I made it out of an treated wood.  It was a perfect fit.

I cut the two studs at the proper length.  I had to make a notch so it would fit the rafter.  I did the horizontal cut on the table saw

and the vertical cut on the miter saw.  It was  pretty easy.  Somewhere in this project I stopped for lunch.

I pre-drilled holes in the sole plate.  The studs were attached to the sole plate with screws

I screwed a small piece of plywood to hold the studs in place. You see it in the photo. I then carried it to the shed and put it in place.  It was not a perfect fit, but good enough.

                                            

It is now ready for the next sheet of plywood.  I had one on the cart.  I had a clipboard where I measure the opening and wrote it down.  I drew a line where I would cut it to fit.  I cut it and took it back to the shed.  It was five inches and would not fit.  I carried it back to the patio.  I measured the space correctly, but I measured the plywood five inches too long.  I cut four inches off the bottom.

This time it fit. It is hard to hold it in place and drive in a screw.  I drove in a screw into the footing board which held the plywood in place.  I then drove in a bunch  of screws.

The clamp held the plywood to the stud while I drove in some screws.

I cut the last piece and leaned it in place.  This used plywood was painted green when we  had a summer retail outlet in Delta.   The photo is the west side from the out side.

The above photo is the west side taken from the inside.  The studs are two feet centers. The space between the corner post and the stud at the right is about twenty-eight inches apart.

Comments and questions are welcome.

The Freeze Never Happened in our Area

Today, I turned the furnace own. The temperature in the house was 63 degrees.

I was working again cleaning around the greenhouses.  I keep finding trays all around the south door of house two.  I worked some there this morning and again in the late afternoon.  The germination trays can get extra heavy when it rains and if they out in the rain.  Rain was the forecast this afternoon.

While I was doing this Robert and Frank, Andrew, the furnace guy arrived about the same time. Andrew got the furnace going.  It didn't take him long.  The valve attached to the furnace would not turn for me.  It turned for him.  Isn't that the way it works.  He loosind one of the gas pipes to bleed out the air.  He tightened it up when he smelled the gas.  He lit the piolet light and turned up the thermostat.  The furnace worked.  I had him pick some tomatoes while I got the check book.  $15.00.

Robert and Frank removed a lot of tomato plants out of house seven.  The weight of the tomato plants hanging from the bows was putting some stress on them.  Robert and Frank picked peppers, tomatoes, The mature Italian squash and some watermelons.

I dug the onions before lunch.  They were laying on the black weed barrier.  After lunch Carol and I cut off the onion tops.  I put them in the garage for them to cure a little.   Later we drove to Fillmore from some groceries.  We got a roast and hamburger at Ashton Farms.  Eric, our son, called and wanted to know if the could visit us tomorrow.  That was the main purpose going to Fillmore.

I moved the compressor into house three to get it out of the rain.

It rained on the way home from Fillmore and it has rained quite a bit this evening.

No pictures today.  I got too busy to document the day with photos.

Comments and questions are welcome.

Christmas Cards 2016

Several weeks ago when Carol and I were up north; that is basically in Utah County, we bought some nice Christmas cards.  I made address labels of friends and family whom we mail cards to.  I have a box of labels 100 sheets with 33 labels on each sheet.  I bought them several years ago to mail catalogs to our nursery customers.  I don't do that any more. 

I found the label file on my computer and made an attempt to print the labels.  There was one problem.  In the box of labels was a different style and they did not fit the labels from the computer.  I spent four hours or so to two or three different days.  I could not get them to fit.  I decided to use the spread sheet and make my own label template.  I spent a lot of time on that and printed on recycled paper and it would not fit.  Recycled paper is a sheet with one side which is blank.  I filled a trash can with these.

I went back to the last years list and got out a new sheet of label paper.  It was a different style and fit perfectly.  La La, I made a sheet of labels in seconds.  I gave them to Carol and she began to stuff the envelops.  Carol wrote a Christmas greeting that she wanted to put in the card.  There were eight on each sheet.  I used card stock.  The four sheets produced 32 cards. 

The birth of the

Savior is a

Wonderful reason

To experience joy

& love, especially

This Christmas season

Have a

Wonderful Christmas

Our furnace has not been working properly for the last couple of weeks.  At nigh I set it at 62 degrees.  When I get up in the morning the temperature is in the 50's.  I have to turn it up 110 before the furnace kicks on.  I then turn it back to 70.  Most of the time it turns off at 65.  I then adjust it again to keep the house warm.  I called Andrew Brown several times and finally got a hold of him last night.  He came this morning and determined that the thermostat was malfunction.   He put on a knew  one and now it is working perfectly.  The new one will not turn on the A/C. but we don't kneed that until May or June.  He will be here Friday morning with the right thermostat.