It takes alot of patience!

I would like to get the siding up on the green house right away. There is much to do before that can happen. First we have to cut the flashing for the bottom of the outside of the wall, then bend it and fit it, and nail it up...then we have to put some tar paper up and staple that in place and then rip the boards on a saw so that the edges are even (it once was a fence that didn't have even edges) and then put up a nailing board, and ,and and. It's a little like sewing or baking or many other worthwhile projects. The end is not an easy destination to get to, and it may sound easy to do until you examine all the pieces to get there.
Last night we took a break and hung out with our card game friends and played a number of games, the most ridiculous and fun I think was Go Fish using different accents for the asking part. (I had totally forgotten that you ask some one if they have a 2 or something else). This was very difficult to come up with accents with Buck Owens blaring in the background...he brought out the southern twang in all of us. B. had a good Jamaican accent which I think he must have picked up in Panama. I must have come home with a good vibe because the cat sat on top of me and purred all night even after I tossed her to the foot of the bed to go potty a couple of times. Anyway, it was good to hear of every one's adventures in home buying, the thought of home buying and all the exhaustion that plays in to stay afloat in the working world.
I have started to saw some wood for burning (yes! my shoulder is working again!!)and rummaging through the piles of wood I have buried treasures in...and I found the nicest wood this morning, that is very dense and has red bark,and already cut into stove sized pieces...don't have any idea what kind of wood it is, but I like it!!
It's supposed to get windy this afternoon, and especially along the foothills...and where do we live? You guessed it.

I am impressed that I didn't have to call the daughter in to get the pictures on the blog! Cool. I also have now rearranged the order of the pics and relocated this post! Wow. This is not typical...to say the least.
As you can see the greenhouse is a work in progress, but Oh!! what a process it has been. Today I sealed around the door with some foamy stuff that should keep the breeze out, and we lugged a piece of marble in that someone gave us and actually managed to get it up on the far west barrel to use as a table. I was day dreaming about how we would get that piece of marble up that high and it occured to me to use the jack we have (that is actually a post puller), and it worked real slick; nobody got hurt! At some point I'll have to take a picture of the marble. It is real purdy. I am one of the happiest girls on the planet. Indeed!

It's already fall !!

We have been rather consumed by the greenhouse construction and it is almost getting to a place where we can slow down. Today we put on the middle 2nd layer of glass, which means that if we get the other two(2nd layer) panels of glass it will be warmer in there overnight. I painted two big 55 gallon drums black and filled them with water, which has been getting warmer with these last few hot days. I feel for the plants, they have been exposed to 32 degrees and all the way up to 100. I'm kinda surprised anything is alive when I think about the extremes that have been in there lately. Most of the plants seem to be in a holding pattern, although the geraniums are slowly blossoming. It is fun to already have some plants in there, even though I don't know that they will really produce, but it feels like an experiment on many levels.
I have learned several construction techniques,(like putting ice and water shield on the roof, screwing on the insulation, and cutting Sollex, which is a plastic card boardish stuff we made the west wall out of) I think mainly because B. is on the verge of burnout..and wants me to do as much as possible. With the nice weather he wants to go play instead of work on the greenhouse. I have a job (or two) so my time is sporadic and inconsistent. I wish I had more time to devote to the project, but I am not knowledgeable to do a lot of what needs doing, and my shoulder has been giving me troubles, so I am not able to lift the kind of weight I want to lift, and that is aggravating.
The up side is that the little house is more beautiful than I would have ever dreamed of, and it will keep plants growing for a long time to come. It is very peaceful and smells like a greenhouse already, and it fills my lungs with the best moist and oxygen experience!! The bees(and other insects) are very attracted to coming inside, but don't seem to remember where the door is. I could spend a lot of time just trapping insects to let out again.
Anyway, I want to blab and blab about how cool it is to have this new creation in our lives, but I think you probably get that it is a long time dream to have such a thing in my life.
On another front, The Prince (Charles) our wonky outdoor cat is slowly but surely getting a palace that I am putting together with the scraps from our other building project and from some of dumpster dives I have come across. He was neutered in August and that has made him all the sweeter, he hangs out with us and watches us work now, and is ever so much more interested in pets and encouraging words...not to mention meals as close together as possible. Sometimes when he is hungry he taps my shoe with his paw as if to hurry me along. He's just such a cool guy. Anyway, I hope to have more blog time in the near future, and maybe because the weather will change soon, we won't have ever spare minute sucked up in our construction project. Hope to get pics up soon too.