August 2009

Keeping a blog current is hard. It is something that should just be added to the daily chores. Forget about the vegatable garden, with all this rain I should have been thinking about planting soup.

Long winter

It's been a long winter. I've got some additional pictures.....just not at this computer. I'll post them next time.

I put a skirt on the deck and didn't leave enough room for the frost so the deck has now heaved about four inches! erg. I'm embarrassed -as I really do know better than to to that kind of thing. That's what happens when I get in a rush, boy is it easy to fool oneself sometimes. While I'm at it, I also messed up on the slope of the pipes feeding water to the shower......yup, they froze. Didn't break any pipes so to fix this I have to crawl under the sauna.....I deserve it! ha ha. I'll get it right. I'm thinking that I'll stop up to 3/4" or 1" pipe for the last few feet to make sure the pipes drain when I want them to.

This spring the first chore will be to fill in the blog with pictures of all the little things we did over the winter. Then continue with the final interior work. I have to put tile on the concrete block behind the wood stove, add some copper heat shields..this will be cool, weld up the trim around the dressing room stove door, build the wood box and add the dressing room sink. On the outside we will be adding some whimsy to the log hand railing and installing some drainage to keep the soil dry around the base of the sauna.

I am so looking forward to getting outside once again.

Also on the list this summer will be a new vegetable garden in raised beds and if I'm lucky the start of the honeybee house.......