Grain Run and Emptying, Trailer, Built Half Tardis Shelving, Mead -...

It was closer to 5:30 when I got out of the house yesterday morning for my trip to town for grain and it was a three stop morning. First I dropped empties off and picked up a single barrel which went to the bed of the truck.

Then I stopped at the Steam Plant for more grain. I dumped the partial into the barrel in the truck and then loaded the other 2 on the trailer. I am glad I go to town so early since it was the Lilac Festival parade in downtown later in the day and the streets I take to get to the brewery would be closed off.

Just dropped an empty off at the third brewery as I got a bit of the morning sun peeking through the clouds.

After 9:00 I went out and emptied the barrels. I got pretty close to the fence and managed to get a good amount in the sheep pen. The birds waded into the grain and began to devour it before I had even finished emptying the first barrel.

I have the shade cloth over the west/lower end of the greenhouse so I have a less direct sun area for the more sensitive plants and a place to get them acclimated to the sun. I also don't have plastic below the bricks so the water drains nicely.

I have tobacco sprouts popping up in all the spots. The Bel-B is not as vigorous but there are some there. It is the one I got from the NASA Ames building. Peppers are getting flowers already and I am trying to decide how I want to work with them, whether to tomato cage them like last year or to do twine ties to the purlin overhead. I am leaning in the tomato cage direction as that will support them better than tying to twine.

I had parked the truck and trailer earlier but then went out mid morning to get the barrels loaded and it ready for my trip to town that I have already done this morning. The toms were a bit flustered as they couldn't figure out how to go around the trailer for a while. Doofy ass birds.

A bit before noon I got started on the shelving for the Tardis. The wood has been sitting outside of it for a couple weeks and with the greenhouse built and gardens planted I was able to get started finally. I cut a bunch of 2 foot pieces of 2x4 for the rungs and cut the legs down 3 inches. I had to change up my design but I like how it came out now. I have a 22" bottom height then 16" between the upper shelves.

I used the set of legs I had marked as a guide to mark the other legs. I had to mark both sides of the middle one so I could install the rungs for both sides.

I managed to make enough space to get everything in and began assembling.

The shelves are 2 feet deep and I used full 8ft boards for them. I first placed them on and was stoked when I found that the spacing between the shelf boards worked out to right on 3 1/2". I went out to the wood storage and found a chunk of 2x4 to use as my spacer, you can see it on the tub above the red container.

The shelves were okay but then when I put the board in the middle it tied them all together so that I can stand on them in the middle and they barely moved. I know each shelf can take well over my 170 pounds.

It was 2 hours later when I finished the set of shelves. It was also sunny by this point in the day and the metal box was a straight up dry sauna. I was sweating like faucet and my kilt was soaked. I also had not eaten anything all day so was running on empty. I had to get the shelves filled first though.

Another 20 minutes and I had the shelves filled. I am going to be reworking the lighting to go on the outside of the shelves along the top so they aren't blocked by stuff on the top shelf. I was totally done by this point and trudged my way back to the house to recoup. A C2O and some scrambled eggs later I was at least beginning to feel a bit better.

The boys finally came in the house so I could get Battlebots going. There is only an episode left now in the season but there will be another tournament shown later, for the golden bolt.

The boys worked on coloring a window cling that Hive account@stryeyz had made on her Cricut while we watched.

We opened one of the bottles of mead, the Song Of The Elders. It has red cedar, douglas fir, and pine resin in it which really caught my attention when first seeing it. The notes are there in the mead but subtle and underlying but definitely there.

We poured glasses and then went out to soak. I was out before 9pm and I crashed quickly after working myself so hard during the day and being up so early.

Today I have been to town for a big load of grain and will have to figure out where to dump it all in a while. It's a much cooler day today and tomorrow so I will have to get the weedeating done, I'd like to build the other set of shelves for the Tardis, last rounds still need to be split and stacked, the rhubarb needs to be harvested and I think I will just juice it this time as we have tons in the freezer still. I also need to reseed some rows that didn't sprout, sooner than later so they can get going and have a chance to grow enough.