On Tuesday I got the morning stuff done and started checking on seedlings. The kale was mostly all up, I just had to transplant a few of the extras and moved it to the porch. I restarted arnica, columbine,

And the sad news is that the poor crocus we rescued on Friday was eaten on Sunday, probably by the marauding groundhog we’ve seen several times. Fortunately it didn’t eat the one back by the porch. Spent

I spent the day on Sunday getting caught up and then writing plant notes. I found a couple gardens that had no notes at all, so I went to my photos (which are, of course, all organized by year and garden)

On Friday morning the sun came up and was bright. One could tell we are real close to the Equinox. My kitchen is a mess with all the root cellar stuff but the sun hit the center of the counter. If I stood

These shelves look awful bare compared to the ones in the old root cellar. But a lot of old food has been tossed, so as to make a clean start here. My general helper was here at 8AM but my helper friend

Friday is usually Chaos Friday. I’m used to that after 3 years of it. But this Friday topped the charts, I think. It all started with a bad night before, then barely making it up to the barn because the

It was an early start on Thursday as I was up with leg pain at 2:45AM. I got started about 4AM getting chores done and then started getting ready for seed starting. I found all the seeds listed on the

On Friday the contractor got there before I got back, so he got the rest of the wire shelves finished for the root cellar. Then we tackled the dining room floor. Since he had been here 2 days ago, the

The contractor arrived at 3PM and wanted to finish the shelves in the root cellar. What was left was cutting the wire shelving to size, filing the sharp edges and coating them so they don’t rust. This

When I got back from the ride on Monday afternoon, the contractor had put the floor outlet back into the bamboo flooring, but had used shorter screws so as to not hit the subflooring. This will allow the

On Friday afternoon the contractor arrived at 3PM and had made a bunch more of the tiny flooring jacks. We spent a couple hours trying to close up the gaps. The gap by the floor outlet closed up quickly

We started several weeks ago trying to close up the cracks in the bamboo floor in the dining room. There had been a very large one next to this floor outlet. It had buckled up and the locking tongue had

On Saturday afternoon the contractor arrived at 3PM and set to work finishing the 1st set of shelves on the east wall. Then he got the supports cut for the 2nd set. This set is smaller than the others

The contractor arrived around 3PM after getting a few more 2” x 4”s for the root cellar. Mostly we’ve been scavenging old wood from his stores and from up at the barn. He had two 2” x 4”s that were 4”

The plumbers arrived at 7:30AM and had this installed by 9AM. It’s going to be a WHOLE lot more expensive than just fixing a dripping faucet. Sigh…. My tenant and the contractor arrived around 3PM and

I’d had this photo of the instructions for changing the stove from natural gas to propane. It looked like a simple job. The plumbers showed up just after lunch and I wasn’t ready. I showed them the guts

On Saturday afternoon the contractor was back. We had moved the furniture in the dining room to put pressure shims between the wall and the flooring to try to slow the cracks from growing. We did it again

The contractor and I had wondered if cracks would appear elsewhere in the floor once the masonry heater was going. They did, in the dining room. We’ve taped them to keep dirt out. When the contractor was

The contractor was here on Sunday afternoon. We looked at the dining room floor and talked about how to fix it. The new plan is to put some sort of a spring between the wall and the flooring to slowly

On Thursday the contractor was here and he planned to shellac the 2 new handrails in between working in the root cellar. He got them sanded and the first coat on, then set about making shelf supports for