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.

Pine Nuts and Jade Plant

We were home from the Manti Utah Temple early this afternoon.

Yesterday I began working on a pedestal.  Below is the one that is in the house.  I will copy it with a few changes.

I sanded the base and the top.  I used a clamp to hold down one corner.  I then sanded with the belt sander.  Instead of the clamp on the piece being sanded I clamped a small board to the bench top.  The piece will push against the board.  I can change it end for end and put the small piece there without having to re-clamp it.

I glued small wooden pads on the bottom of the base.  Three of them did not match the grain of the wood.  I took them off and glue them back so the grain matched.  Tomorrow I will stain or pain it, if I have time.

We haven't had rain for over a month and the lawns is pretty dry.  We always water the lawn with well water.  I drained the pipes last week.  To water, I hooked the hose to city water in house three.  It has run in two different places on the front lawn.  I turned it way down for the night so it wouldn't freeze.

There is water running at two different places for the hen.  One is in the water dish and the other running in the chicken run.  It getting pretty muddy.  I hooked a short hose to that hose bib and run the water two the west edge.

Last week I bought a pound of pinion pine nuts.  I planted them in the germination trays late afternoon.  I watered them well and will put them in house three in a couple of weeks.

A couple of weeks ago Carol's plant,  Crassula ovata, commonly known as jade plant tipped over into the sink.  Two branches broke off,  I cut off the leaves and will let the scab up some and put them in pots in a week or so.   There were twenty-three stems.

Comments and questions welcome