We had severe gust warnings for Mother's day weekend. It literally got destroyed, the fabric has some damages, but the frame got bent. Not sure yet if anything is salvageable.
Batten down the hatches alright!!
Strong winds came from the South and the West
Facing West, the day or so before
We even parked the truck in front to give it some protection.
Overnight it demolished itself, frame included.
And yes, that wind storm was accompanied by snow... On May 9th.
Not quite the Mother day we were hoping for :-(
We started again, her good old portable greenhouse (one of two) is back up. Not in the sunniest location, but tied to the shed and trees stumps, not going anywhere soon.
Yes, she had plants inside
Mostly bulbs
The plastic tap broke on the sink. Good, now I can replace it with a real one :-)
That small outdoor sink from LV is pretty good
The drain hose is pretty cheesy, the tap is plastic, but the table/sink is solid
and real stainless steel, shows no wear or rust after being out 3 seasons.
Portable green house that was inside the larger one, relocated on the south side of the shed
The tree that broke and hung up in Feb, is now down safely :-)
Rudy being nosy, the neighbour is in his wood shed.
That tree was no match for the big bad winds
The whole idea of the temporary greenhouse 10X20 was to find the best location on our land for the upcoming and permanent one to be build later. Even before it got demolished, she already decided that it should move location... next time :-)
Site all clean.
We are now thinking maybe the new shed should go there?
My land has a lot of various elevations, the house is sitting high on the land, the empty land on my lot to the south side has lots of sun, but unfortunately also has the highest winds gusts :-(
Another casualty of the wind storm was a earthenware pottery that I forgot to bring inside, it got blown to smattering pieces.
I am going to bury the pieces on my land. Can just picture some archaeologist
years from now discovering those pieces on my land :-)
Rewriting world history, perhaps :-)
Woodworking wise did some projects...
Gather up all the chemicals, paints, caulking and etc in one spot in the house. Amazing the duplicates one can found when all gathered together :-)
Also worked on fixing some of her decorative bird houses. She wanted to preserved as much original as possible. That meant replacing rotted bottom pieces, new roof in one case, gluing back some pieces. Since this is going outside, has to be waterproof glue. I used a lot of epoxy. To reinforced crumbling edges, hold together split pieces etc. Lots of small jobs waiting in between glue setting.
I got two on the go on my hobby bench
Taken apart, were broken, will discard some pieces and make new ones
Cutting new roof panels for one bird house
Tight but there is enough clearances
One of two cut
Then gave them a trim to my lines and defuzzed
OK that will work, but the remaining roof panel
is too twisted to lay flat. Made another one
The bottom was rotten and discarded, the sides at the bottom need reinforcement
Epoxy and clamps to the rescue
Not going anywhere, good to go
Repeat all around the bottom, put glue in between
the delamination's and squeeze tight
Then time to make a new bottom
Quickly pare down with chisel bevel down.
Notice how you can control the depth easily with the bevel down
Stopped about there
Few strokes with my block plane, good to go
After fixing the two separate parts, it was time to reglued them together
All I need now is glue the new top pieces and make a bottom for the dual ones.
The epoxy I used. Impressed with the twist cap, keeps it fresh
and can be reopened months after. Good flow evenly on both parts. Amazing :-)
Never had such results with any other already used prior.
All while making tremendous headway in our Spring clean up this year :-)
Ohhh look even made live edge shelving for the paint :-)
My piles of Maple slabs are now 1 and a half year dried.
Does not register anymore on my cheap moisture meter, start at 10%, I am below that.
Used some as temporary shelving's
The small meter I used
It work, but no idea how dry it is below 10%
Those two pics taken in 2018
Still got a myriads of small projects to get done, but need time to smell the coffee
Bob, with no shortage of stuff to do to keep busy. Busy is good :-)
Green houses may come and go with the wind, but a true gardener is never discouraged. They just simply build again.
ReplyDeleteYou are a busy dude.
My neighbours on the mountainside of the road report one big spruce down on my prperty. Just two more to go,
Oh yes Calvin, there are a few down trees around ;-( The clean up crews for the power company are quite busy lately, they were negligent for years keeping up with growing trees, now they are trying to make up for it. Strangely, my power has not been down since buying an emergency generator this Jan :-)
ReplyDeletePortable greenhouse setup, preparing next site shorthly. The final green house will be from https://www.bcgreenhouses.com/ with the upgrades to 140 Km winds resistance. That is about 225 Mph, should do :-)
Bob, the eternal optimist
Isn't that how it goes. Buy one and the hydro stays on. I don't have one here, but I have the breaker box all in place down there, just have to buy the generator next year.
ReplyDeleteThe BC Greenhouses seem to be the proper beast. The upgrade wind package a necessity. I have saved the link just in case we might want to go that root.
Bummer, Bob. Seems like you just put that greenhouse up.
ReplyDeleteYes Matt, about a week before, 9 days to be exact
ReplyDeleteBummer is right. Oh well, we will rebuild :-)
Bob
Bob,
ReplyDeleteSorry about the greenhouse. I thought MsBubba was tough now I'm feeling she's a wuss. I'm new to this gardening thing, never had time to care for plants. But now there is time. The problem here is the heat, I still can't figure out how to give 6+ hours of sunlight and not burn the plants to a crisp.
ken
Two words Ken Shade Clothes.
ReplyDeleteThat was why back then they used to often paint the glass in green house a white wash. Now there are all kinds of shade cloths available for that very purpose.
Bob, taking a break from outdoor works.
Oh and make that 3 words... and Ventilation. Set up a breeze way, let mother nature do the work or add mechanical/electrical ventilation. Another benefit is that it keep the small bugs out of the approach circuit :-)
ReplyDeleteBob, living near a real approach circuit :-)