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Comments Off on closer got up and cooked potatoes for salad. cut pickles, olives, onion, celery, and potatoes. stirred together with salt, pepper, basil, tarragon, parsley, mayonnaise, mustard, pickle juice, and 3 boiled (cracked open and nuked in a bowl with water) eggs and you got potato salad or a reasonable impression thereof.
Cleaned up and went to the folks for lunch. did lunch and worked on moms computer for a bit then sat and talked a bit then headed this way.
got out and started adding piers. got everything done now but for the front 2 which will be the last to go in as that end needs to go down a bit more so will pivot on the set about 10 feet back. one of them settled about an inch last night so will have to relevel it too. still got to raise the west end more. now that i have enough piers that its not sliding when I jack it up now. moved another in or two today when i was getting one of the back piers in. soil is rotten out there right now. will end up releveling it several times i suspect. the other option is to pour a track the length of the frame and set the frame directly on that. which I have considered. but will level with block first and see if it will hold. Once the water isn't standing on it and its had a chance to pack a bit i think it will be fine. Or there could be a old ditch there that is filled in but still carrying water. tis unusually muddy in a couple of areas out there.
supposed to go to the landfill tomorrow and get some brick and or block. Got to get out and clean bertha out and off. should have done that today too but time got away. did get another 5 piers put in so was certainly having fun. not as sore as I though i would be. arms and hands are not too bad. wrists are swollen and shoulders are aching but still able to go so must be doing a bit better.
Maybe get finished leveling it tomorrow. Next will start with the power and then door and roof and walls into the greenhouse. or the new whatever. Hoping to have it done before the next rains hit. or if not have it done (which i know it won't be) have enough of the waterproofing done that we don't take rain. Need to get the gutters on the trailer too. got enough for one side so guess I will do the back or north side and put wood up to add a porch roof the length of the south side. Hate to take the time to do that right now but either the roof or put something up temporally and then come back and add the porch later. Got a lot of other stuff going up so will see. May be able to put the L strips up and build the porch under it later.
Still trying to figure out the rooms where the greenhouse is now. want two story but not sure how I want to build it. Suspect it will be a mashup of all of the bits and pieces I have collected for years. Keep threatening to do some such. Guess that the time is right and the place is here. Then let the powers that be figure out how to appraise it.
Need to get more cement. and a load of sand and one or two of gravel. guess I need to call around and see what the prices are on the above. also got to get more blocks. or not. think junk. not new. Big truck, dump, tomorrow.
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