6:55 am - Wednesday - December 3rd - TWW - 33° F, humidity 49%, wind 3 mph out of the south by southwest......partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 44° F. On this date in 2012 TLE and I were walking home from the night shift at Amazon.....
....in Campbellsville, KY.
Tuesday began with mostly clear skies, but by 2 pm the clouds had rolled in again, and the temperature dropped. First thing Tuesday (first thing meaning around 10 am) Charles and I worked on fixing a slow leak in the pump house (water). Over the course of an hour, or slightly more we managed to reduce the leak to a drip every 2-4 minutes, which is much more manageable than 60 drips per minute. Why the temporary fix? Well, the plan is to install a much bigger expansion tank in the pump house making it necessary to enlarge the pump house. The materials have been purchased, but we are waiting for Charles' handyman, Matt, to have time to come up and build the enlarged area. In order to the leak we will need to remove the plumbing from the pump, which is a big job, so we'll do it all at the same time. In the interim, the problem has been somewhat abated.
Before I arrived on the scene Charles had moved the painting tables, and firring strips into the greenhouse where it would be significantly warmer enabling us to paint everything in one day, and it worked quite well. By early afternoon all sides of the firring strips, and 2 x 4's had been painted, so in the next few days we'll begin the finishing touches on the greenhouse.
Recently I bought a new battery for the 1969 Chevrolet C50 tilt bed truck, and wanted to put the receipt, and warranty into the truck glove box. When I went to open the passenger side door I discovered the button you depress to open the door had become dislocated again....doh! You'll remember I had to fix this problem right after we bought the truck last winter. Anyway, a simple task of putting the battery receipt in the glove box turned into a 40 minute project in which I had to remove the door card, which is complicated all by istelf, in order to fix the problem. Finally, with TLE's extra hands I got it fixed.
By that time the aforementioned clouds had rolled into TWW, and our work day was over. I put away my tools, and headed back to the Newell to take a nap before dinner at 4:30 pm. Phyllis had made Turkey Tetrazzini from leftover Thanksgiving turkey with some leftover cranberry sauce. Combined with the wonderful turkey/cranberry sandwich TLE made the other day for dinner that makes 3 meals we've had from that one turkey.
I put one of my temp sensors in the greenhouse Monday night, and the temp got down into the 20's, which is what we expected. In order to grow things in there this winter we're going to have to use a heater at night. Charles had brought a propane catalytic heater up to TWW last winter for use in the battery room, but it turned out we didn't need it. It's not very big, but Tuesday night we set it up in the greenhouse to see how warm we could keep it. On low the temp was dipping into the high 30's, so I turned it up to high and was able to keep the inside temp at 47° F all night long....as I write early Wednesday it is still at 44.7° F (coldest before the dawn, right?).
Tuesday ended up being a day of planned and unplanned tasks, but we got it all done. As I was walking back to the Newell from the greenhouse I observed the end of what must have been a pretty sunset....
....so I captured a few pictures to memorialize it, and was surprised at how well they came out.
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