Laurie is off on a ski trip with her family, so I have a free weekend. I have no homework except for a little reading. It' going to be frigging warm this weekend, at least for January, and there isn't supposed to be any rain ( Read more... )

The wiggle-wire and channel arrived during the snow storm last week, and the plastic arrived yesterday. Now all I need is to go buy the lumber and the hardware, and I should be on track for having it assembled in time for the beginning of March.

The aluminum channel and wigglewire arrived for the greenhouse!

Now all I need is the woven poly covering, the lumber to frame up the ends, and for the snow to melt so I can start work on it. I hope to have it finished by the beginning of March.

Most years Laurie flies home for Christmas and I stay home. That's fine with me, because I really am that anti-social. With her large extended family, a week of get-togethers would have me one edge after about a day ( Read more... )

Laurie's flight isn't canceled yet, but the delay is getting longer and longer. It is now out to 2 hours and 57 minutes according the the website. This is looking like it's going to be a VERY long night for her, and possibly for me too.

The snow is done for now, and the temps are above freezing, so things are starting to thaw out. Laurie has a red-eye out of Seatac tonight, that hasn't been canceled ... yet. The driveway is shoveled out, the car has snow tires and chains if we need them. I-5 is clear but wet, and it's supposed to get down to 20 tonight. I hope that they either ( Read more... )

Laurie has a date with her uncle to go skiing in January, in either Utah or Colorado, I forget which. They are celebrating her 40th birthday and his 60th. Laurie hasn't been downhill skiing in a decade, and she's been waiting for the ski areas to open so she can get some practice before flying out there ( Read more... )

Well, he named Vilsack. Might as well have voted for Hillary. He didn't have to pick someone that was only interested in local, organic, small farms, but he picked someone whose only agricultural experience is representing big agriculture and being governor of Iowa. I guess the democrats are no friend of organic agriculture. I am not impressed with ( Read more... )

I just got back from my eval conference at school. My professor told me that I can be a little stubborn at times, and got this look on his face like he was worried that I might be offended. I then corrected him, I'm not a little stubborn, I'm extremely stubborn ( Read more... )

I finally got around to ordering the parts to finish closing in the first section of greenhouse. I haven't been able to find a good greenhouse supply around here, and I just wasn't motivated to drive down to Oregon to shop down there, so I ended up ordering the parts online. At first I was going to go with regular old 6 mil greenhouse plastic, but ( Read more... )