got started with the greenhouse this am. took the wall by the shower down and repositioned the one by the toilet. added a support at the end of the shower and put another piece of blue board there. added a piece of 1×4 on the outside of the blueboard at the shower end. cut the blueboard off above the bamboo top support for air and light transfer. added a piece of bamboo across the entire area and turned so the bend is away from the wall with a screw at each end and one piece of wire to the upper bamboo a couple of feet from the qhut end to help support it. now to find a sheet or curtain to affix to it for a door and will be finished with that part for now.

moved the cement to a row inside the south end wall. got to add plastic and some brick and boards for additional plant storage. moved a pallet in and covered with plastic and have started moving plants in. big stuff is in except for the cactus. may move it in today may be tomorrow. got the rock and brick moved away from the tarp on the east wall. am considering doing it and the east roof in metal. can do it in a couple of days and next predicted rain is thursday. May not take that long to build. just can't decide if I want to do it now or do almost as much work and have to redo it after the trailer is in here. course the metal roof I put up now will have to be changed too but nor as much or as soon as the temporary would be.

as promised here are the problems encountered saturday night…

it all started with trying to print out a form on the filemaker site. Though I had used the apple migration program the printer wasn't there. not a problem says I. I have set up printers on many machines and oses and lans before so should not be a problem. wrong was I! went to the printer setup utility in the utilities folder and selected print to windows printer. showed the lan and I selected the workgroup and then computer. no printer showed up.

then went to the old ibook and it printed fine. so it is still working just not seen on this machine. went to the xp (boo hiss) machine and made sure that all the stuff was set up correctly on there and some update or the other had changed the workgroup to mshome instead of workgroup. Found it thinks I. Wrong again. changed that back to workgroup and restarted xp. still not there.

old mac still prints fine. so I goes online and does a search and find quite a bit of trouble with printing to windows in osx 10.2 and 10.3 but nothing that I find and try works. finely get to someone that suggests to set up cups through the browser. fine says I. I will do just that.

so I go to the browser and load the localhost url and get the screen. then go to add printer. wants a username and password. so I give it one. and then another. and then another. and another. doesn't like any of them. so I go and check and all of them have admin privilages but none work.

so back online to look for a solution to this additional problem. I try activating the root user and cups doesn't like that one anymore than any of the others. finely find an article that says that apple changed the password encryption scheme in 10.3 but failed to get all of cups's ducks in a row and gives several ways to correct the problem.

I try a couple and as it is real late at this point they don't work. then note that there is a line in the prefs for cups that just bypasses the password protection all together. as this is my machine and all I want to do is print a damn form I comment out that section and finely am able to get to the add printer page.

go to the old mac and get the info from the printer file and paste it into the journal as a lazy way to cut and paste between the two machines instead of just logging on in a im session with both machines. but what the hay. got the data over to the new one and after some more minor fiddling I am finely able to print the form. so I do. Then find that I can't do what I thought I could so have to go and change some things in the form and print it again then go to the next page and print that too and call it a night. crawl upstairs with never another thought to the printer stuff sitting on the blog.

Sunday morning we get up and head out to georgia. went to the west georgia flea market at carrolton. after getting a few dozen books that look promising we head for cheaha where we have lunch.

Food was fair. Not worth the price they charged as the buffet is out of meat when we get there. they put some tough chicken out and some pan fried ham after we had filled up on veggies. Ate a bit of the ham anyway and was fair. scraped the pan on the strawberry short cake and it was good. the other pudding i got wasn't worth the effort. turnip greens were fair. dressing was good but chicken in it was tough. pinto beans were cold but fair. potato salad was ok but some of the potatoes were under done. mac and cheese which I liked last time was out of a box and not cooked long enough so was a bit gritty. tea was ok but there was too much ice and not a big enough glass. over all not a place to return to. A quick thrown together sandwich would have gone down about as well and not cost near as much…

then down the hill toward munford and across to the back road to coldwater. through to bynum leatherwood road and then 431, alexandria road then cedar springs and alexandria/jacksonville highway and the bear knife sale with 15 minutes to spare before they closed the in door.

I looked and cat got a nice little swiss army knife for $15. I started to get several but just couldn't do it. got all i need right now other than replacing my main one and they didn't have one that would have done what I need as well as the one I have now so will keep looking.

then home. and a long sleep.

got started on the greenhouse as stated earlier. Just came in from working on it more. got bertha unloaded and reloaded with stuff out to the side of the qhut. almost got enough out of the way to get the dozer in there. should finish it tomorrow morning. got stuff moved in the greenhouse and the carpet up to get started on the block wall on the east side. got to pour a foundation and set some for the base then gonna stack them and use surface bonding cement to finish it off.

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