Back to the greenhouse....

 7:42 am - Saturday - December 6th - TWW - 31° F, humidity 47%, wind 1 mph out of the south by southeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 56° F.  On this date in 2024 I had begun to dig the hole for the concrete pad for the EcoWorthy dual axis solar tracker....

....I needed to dig a hole 2 feet deep, but hit what I thought was old concrete at 12", not being familiar with what is known as caliche rock.  This rock is prevalent in dry, arid areas which is Arizona.  You find it around 1 foot below ground level.  It looks and feels like concrete.  Anyway I had begun to drill holes into the caliche rock into which I would later insert rebar.

Our main goal for Friday was to make major inroads into finish installing the firring strips which affix the visqueen to the framework of the greenhouse.  Before we did any firring strip work we had to cut to length, and install 2 x 4's on the east side of the greenhouse near the roof line so we had something into which we could screw the firring strips....

.....if you look at the picture above and focus on the roof line you see five 2 x 4's just below the roof line.  The two on the left were already there, so we had to cut three more to fill in the last three spots...

These are two of the three we installed

....once those 2 x 4's were in we were able to begin installing more firring strips....

....we managed to get the entire east side finished.  We also 'cut out' the windows removing the excess visqueen which covered them....

North window...you can see the firring strips around the window holding the visqueen in place

South window

....that took us from 11 am to 2:30 pm, including a break in the shade.  It's pretty cold right now with daytime temps reaching the low 50's, but in the sun it feels 20° hotter, for sure.  I spent another 90 minutes working the door threshold so make it easier to open and close it using my oscillating tool to shave away more wood.  By the time I finished, around 4 pm it was opening and closing as well as it is going to do so.  There is still aways to go...maybe two more days of securing the visqueen with the firring strips on the other three sides.  We'll spend time Saturday working on the west side, then all that will remain are the north and south sides, which are already partially done.

During the break time we took we connected our 175' of fresh water hoses and dumped the black tank, then refilled the fresh water tank with 100+ gallons of water.....we were down to 40 gallons, and really could have gone another day, or two, but it was time to dump the black tank, which could not wait any longer, if you know what I mean.

And that was the end of another day at The Wilson Wilderness....I did manage to get pictures of the full moon rising out of the southeast last night....

.....very cool!

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