The greenhouse....

8:05 am - Sunday - February 23rd - TWW - 34° F, humidity 36%, wind 2 mph out out of the east.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 69° F!  On this date in 2021 I was able to reinstall our Leece-Neville shaft driven alternator after having it rebuilt....

 ....it took me less than 20 minutes start to finish to reinstall it!

The past 4 days have been some of the most productive work days since we arrived here at TWW.  Having four people to take on each task really, really speeds up the work.  We've been able to get done in one day what would have taken TLE and I 2-3 days to accomplish, and Saturday was another of those days.  

Since we arrived at TWW back in October I have wanted to begin the job of refurbishing the green house.  It has sat unused for years, and the Visqueen (clear plastic) outer covering of the green house died of UV over exposure years before.  The corrugated polycarbonate clear roof panels had been damaged by hail a while back, and needed to be removed.  Finally the entire green house area (fenced in) was overgrown with weeds.  

Charles and Phyllis were up early and began clearing weeds around 8:30 am.  By the time we joined them it was closer to 10 am.  Over the next 4 hours we cleared 60% of the weeds, built a new raised growing bed, and removed all 20 of the corrugated polycarbonate roof panels, as well as moved the two IBC water totes over from their former resting place.  Once we have the new roof on the green house we can set up our first water catchment project using those two IBC water totes as reservoirs.....

The raised growing beds....the one in the background is the 'new one

The two IBC water totes ready to be moved into position once the new roof is installed

The new raised growing bed.....just need to add some topsoil

One of the hail damaged corrugated polycarbonate roof panels

All the roof panels are removed

Weed free green house floor

Removing the roof panels one at a time....there must have been at least a thousand screws....lol!

A nice discovery....we have power and water already there

An unused roll of Visqueen left by the prior owners

.....we finished around 2 pm, and we were all tuckered out, however, we had one last small project.....TLE wanted me to scape the path to the burn barrel free of weeds, or mostly free of weeds, so I did just that using the Ford 420 loader bucket.....

....and that, he said with a sigh of relief, was the end of another very productive workday at TWW.

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