Door frame and partial siding

Today was a usual lazy day, and we had some beers in the garden instead of going off to the Blackfish pub. Another free 4x4 was acquired and we progressed the garden and the greenhouse.

The door frame is in with two 4x4 posts that were free from Gibsons Building supplies, and I progressed the siding with the ten foot long window ledge wood. It's amazing that it was just seventy cents a piece..

Great weather, a few beers and some light screwing in the garden.

It does not get better than that.

Picnic Table no more....

It's officially project day 3, but on day 1 we deconstructed the picnic table that we built in the spring of 2008. I'm amazed that we've been here in BC for almost 8 years now. Anyway, yesterday afternoon we built the basic frame of the greenhouse project and have recycled almost all the picnic table wood. Today we will continue after we've been out to look at some salvaged windows.

Here's the basic frame sitting on our concrete pad that we had poured in 2008, the frame is about 10' x 8' and the height is a little over 6' - we will create some roof trusses eventually for a classic roof.

Will keep you posted.

Who are You?

Last night this chap flew into our tree outside our window so we managed to get a good look. Karen has her handy book about our birds and established that it was a Barred Owl. He was looking at us as we opened the window, stayed in the tree for a minute or so. I would estimate the height to be about 50cm or more, so a big guy.

Tuesday

I picked up the baseboards at Gibsons Building Supplies today and they had some special order flashings and metal that they were giving away, so at the same time I scooped some of that for the upcoming greenhouse project. In addition, I picked up this lot of 10 foot long, solid wood window ledges, an inventory clearance. It was twenty bucks for the lot and they will become the basis for my modular greenhouse design. Now I need to research plexiglass.

Monday

Ah, Monday is gone and the new carpet is in, the furniture is all back in place. Amazing how tiring one job can be, but well worth it. I ordered the baseboards which should be here Tuesday.

Curling Club - Flea Market 2015 #2

The second flea market this year, and once again we had a cracking day turning our stuff into beer money. Setup and shutdown was a breeze as we now cover it over and leave it all there until the next time (June 6th) and today there was an initial rush, then a quiet period, so we chatted with the other vendors. Of course, as soon as it was over, we counted up our winnings and went off to the pub for a jug of Red Racer Red Ale. In addition, we found a little "treasure" on other people's tables, which we will also turn into more cash, probably on eBay.

It was a very happy day, loads of fun!

Saturday Morning visitors

Another morning shot, with the rascal and a new wayward character helping us out with the gardening, I wish the deer would get a taste for dandelions, which are especially prolific this year.

The neighbourhood rascal.

Marilyn (our neighbour) told us that the family that had this cat just moved away and abandoned it, but that has not worried this fine little guy, who has made friends with most of us in the neighbourhood. Always comes running when we're out in the garden, occasionally his little face will appear at our garage roof window and he's always out and about.

Cord Cutting

I may have posted a photograph of the 8 bay antenna originally when I mounted it (more tea vicar?) and set up the ATSC capture system. However, now it has an extra doobery attached it seems appropriate to present it again.

The little grey box at the bottom is the new addition, it is a coaxial amplifier that boosts the signal very close to the source. I decided it was needed as at certain times of the day, the signal for CHEK TV becomes weak, hopefully this will sort that issue out.

It's been 28 months now, and we "survive" on a few high definition ATSC channels (CHEK and PBS) with several other free OTA (over the air) digital channels. Add Netflix to the mix, plus an amazing amount of free streaming available on the web, and we have our fill of free TV.

Tinkering

The antenna expreiment is about 28 months and counting now, and today I decided to tweak the setup slightly by adding an inline amplifier to the signal close to the antenna itself. It made good sense as the weather has been quite fantastic over the last week.

Here I am, standing barefoot on a very hot asphalt shingle roof, burning the soles of my feet, the antenna in the background :