Karen was busy too...

While I was making the planter box, Karen was painting the almost finished front side of the greenhouse. It was essential that we both worked today as somehow we had to justify having wine on a Tuesday night.

As if we need an excuse...

Something from nothing

Another short work day, a couple of hours today as we get closer to the finish line.

I picked up a bunch of free pallet frame/spacer arrangements from Gibsons Building Supplies scrap zone and took them apart. Enough good wood for a reasonable sized raised bed planter box. The next step will be to line the box with heavy duty landscape fabric, then fill with good soil.

End of the day, the stained planter box, and a couple of the original frames remain for another project.

Measure Once, cut fourteen times.

I put it down to the heat (we were up in the 30's yesterday) because my ability to cut wood to size has deteriorated quite distinctly over the last two days. I need to focus.

The chap gave us four new tins of paint, one Autumn Sand, two white base and one trim and yesterday the nice man at Canadian Tire tinted one of the white to almost Autum Sand again for free. A lot of people have a "go" at Crappy Tire for being uncooperative, but I find it's the way you treat people that makes the difference.

It's not exactly the same tint, but we have a lot of it, so the greenhouse will end up the same colour.

More progress at the creek side of the structure :

Asymmetry

The heatwave continues and the mad dogs and Englishmen (and women) are out in the midday sun.

The asymmetry of the windows is quite evident now and it is a reflection of my dropping the engineering paradigm of most things having to be straight and symmetrical.

An acknowledgement today that I have bought too many windows and pieces of glass, so although the greenhouse will come in under our $250 target there was a bit of overspending in that number and things will have to be returned to the salvage yard to be recycled once more.

In every plan there is inefficiency.

No worries though, we're on track, perhaps another week and we'll be finished.

Hump Day

It was a tiring day, and we only worked a shade over two and a half hours, but we're both tired, so we will be having a rest day on Thursday.

Of course, it was "Growler Hour" at Persephone, so we had to be up at the brewery at four o'clock anyways, a well deserved "set" of beers and some growlers and pizza to bring home for a good old telly night.

More progress on the greenhouse, more windows, about a third of the vertical surface area finished, there's hope that the end is in sight!

Filling in the holes...Phase Two

At Gibsons Recycling depot this morning, two perfect sized windows were found and they are now installed in the outbuilding.

This may be the point where symmetry is lost, mainly as we have many useful windows to install including a couple that open and they're all different sizes.

So, let the asymmetry begin!