Too cold to watch paint dry.....

 8:27 am - Sunday - December 28th - TWW - 28° F, humidity 48%, wind 6 mph out of the east by northeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 48° F.  The view this morning.....

....and on this date in 2024 TLE and I were enjoying an amazing sunset at The Wilson Wilderness....

By Saturday morning the blustery, sometimes high gusting winds had disappeared, but left a day with a forecast high of only 45° F.  We wanted to paint the last five furring strips Charles and Phyllis had delivered last Tuesday, but temps under 50° F are not conducive to good painting results, so we turned our attention to things we could do, such as temporarily reinstalling the corrugated metal roof on the pump house.   I didn't know where it was at the time, but TLE was able to find the two pieces in the barn.....

.....it didn't take more than 30 minutes to screw it into place, and since we were only doing a temporary install until the pump house is expanded, I didn't want to re-caulk the seams, so I used red duct tape instead.

Next we tackled rearranging the 'furniture' inside the greenhouse.  There were two more folding tables to position, and TLE wanted to move one of the hose hooks we use to hang the many garden hoses we have....

We have many new plants growing....you can see the diesel heater in the lower left of the picture....it is doing a bang up job of keeping things above freezing!

....we didn't venture outside to do anything until after 12 pm, so by the time we finished with these two tasks it was after 3 pm, and getting cold fast.  I had to return to the greenhouse around 7:30 pm to adjust the start and stop times on the diesel heater.  We ran the heater for 6 hours Friday night, but with the overnight low forecast at 24° F, and the temp already down to 34° F outside I increased the run time to 12 hours (8 pm to 8 am)....with a full diesel tank it can run continuously for 18-20 hours.

As I was returning to the Newell I saw a beautiful sunset taking place, so I took a few minutes to memorialize it.....

....would have loved to have a sunset fire, but it was already in the low 30's, and I knew TLE would not be up for that....lol!

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