Day 5

DON'T TELL ME...IT'S RAINING AGAIN...

Working on outside projects started off slow today...after a REALLY nice day yesterday the rain came back...

It would have been too good to be true for the sunshine to stick around for the rest of my week of from work. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

CLEAN UP TIME

My outside work was getting the hoop house all cleaned up and organized, now that I'm basically done with getting seeds germinated in trays - for now. In fact at this time last year I was only getting seeds into trays...and now I have all sorts of seedlings happening! Way ahead of the game!

SO EXCITED!!

Anyway, having the trays on the shoe rack by the door made it feel more crowded, so that needed to be changed. Some stuff needed to be thrown on the burn pile or into the garbage. It was a quick little project and during the moving of the trays I did see that the Chinese Forget Me Not's (Cynoglossum Amabile), Ellagance Purple (Lavandula angustifolia) and Nasturtium (Tropaeolum minus) were all starting to sprout, wahoo! I was a little concerned that the temps may not have been warm enough, but it appears that they were okay. Especially with the lids on the trays to keep them from getting too cold.

This is what the inside of the hoop house looks like after the clean-up...

Tom did some more work on the chick shaw and I was available to help out too! The first thing that I helped with was the ripping of 2 x 6 boards into 2 x 2's. Thus the hearing protection and the mask. Since I suffer from allergies and have mild asthma it's best that I "suit" up for this task.

Later on, Tom took the 2 x 2's and cut them even further for the vertical posts and the diagonal braces. This is where I come in and fasten the posts and braces with screws with MY TOOL.

Below you can see the diagonal braces and the two short posts to the rear of the structure. The nesting boxes (milk crates)  will be directly above the short wall in the back. That will be one of the purchases that we'll make to complete this project.

The Chick Shaw plans are pretty entertaining Tom is up to Step 18 where it asks "Are we having fun?" If not it's time to take a break - have some tea or have a stretch or whatever. Fortunately this is still fun for Tom and I am enjoying running that drill - MY drill! 

It will be MORE fun once it is ready to roll out in the field and add chickens. We'll also have to add a Portable Electric Chicken Fence...the brand is Premier 1 check them out HERE. The fencing is a future post.

Having it rain most of the time that we were outside - and during the days that we had planned to do stuff outside it was nice to see this...

These popped up in the burn pile again.

A little bit of sunshine in the gloom of the day.