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By Dave, November 9, 2004 9:52 pm

getting closer to being winterized. Got the plastic on the back of the greenhouse today. also got the Ashley heater moved and block and brick moved inside and ready to start the wall with. finished loading the crap from the east of the qhut onto bertha. aired the tires on the hand trucks up and got the tomato tub inside after tying a rope onto the trucks and a pipe in the tub. sucker was heavy. cleared an area on the workbench at the barn and unloaded the wheelbarrow. aired its tire up and and then moved the rocks on the east side to piles either front or back of the qhut depending on where they were.

Got the dozer cranked and after a short trip through the woods pushed the mounds of dirt by the greenhouse east wall into submission. and into holes. then packed them. and cleared the east side of the qhut. still got the trees and brush at the rear but starting to chew on that too. took out a couple of smaller oaks and a bunch of roots belonging to the big north most sweet gum. hope to take it down tomorrow (wednesday).

Twas dark by the time I got to that point so decided to quit for the evening. still stuff in the greenhouse I could do but as sore as my arms are and bad as the hands are hurting quitting while ahead seems the thing to do…

Got a beginning on the database. cat found how to export a CSV file from HomeBase so I made an empty database file and went to import. At that point the new filemaker let me configure the database fields so using the fields shown on the screen i was able to duplicate the field names and get 1825 files into it in a matter of minutes. This new iBook is FAST. Or it really likes that extra gb of memory I added. or both.

Got to browsing and found a book on filemaker 7 that I ordered. looked at booksamillion the other day but the only ones they had were either not what i wanted or too much $$. This one was 32 with shipping and reviews say it is a well rounded book. 4 different authors and over a thousand pages so should have some usable stuff…

need to get signed up for amazon sales and developer. need to get into the api and see if I can figure out how to download the book info directly into filemaker from isbn #. which is how i ended up buying the book.

think i am gonna go check for eyelid leaks…