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strider3700 · 02-13-11, 01:06 PM

feb 4th I went shopping for materials to trim out the craft room window.

Feb 5th I built installed the window casings and designed and built a much larger sill that will hold me seedling trays. The previous design was some 2x4's stacked up to hold up half of the tray since the sillwas only 4" deep.

Feb 6th I did some coding on the data logger. Nothing serious but it is cleaned up a bit more.

Feb 7th -11th I got up at 5:00 went to the gym at 6 then to the temporary fulltime day job and then a few hours with my family then a couple of hours of my business work each evening. I did manage to buy seeds on the way home one day.

Feb 12th - I put the last bit of trim up around the craft room window gave it a quick sand then declared it ready for caulking and paint. Later that night my 2 year old and I filled some seed trays with soil then planted onions and leeks. about 30% of my seed trays are now full. The rest will hold tomatoes, peppers and herbs at the least. I'm not sure if I want to start lettuce inside or not.

Feb 13th - after watching 5 or 6 birds "fighting" over the one birdhouse by the carport I've been ordered to build a bird condo for a bunch more. So today will be researching that and getting materials if not the entire thing done. I should have everything except for the post I want to sink it on. I'm trying to work out an easy design that will let me stick one of my honeybee bait hives on top of it as well.
<edit> The bird house is done. 6 boxes and it fits under the bait hive. Some paint and me buying a 4x4 to put it on and it's ready to go. I also spent a few minutes putting pipe insulation on the exposed hot and cold runs in the basement. unfortunately the part closest to the tank is hidden by the roof and I can't get at it until the tank is replaced and relocated. 63 feet of insulation cost me $7 so I figured I might as well just do it </edit>

02-13-11, 01:06 PM	#41
strider3700 Master EcoRenovator Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Vancouver Island BC Posts: 745 Thanks: 23 Thanked 37 Times in 30 Posts	feb 4th I went shopping for materials to trim out the craft room window. Feb 5th I built installed the window casings and designed and built a much larger sill that will hold me seedling trays. The previous design was some 2x4's stacked up to hold up half of the tray since the sillwas only 4" deep. Feb 6th I did some coding on the data logger. Nothing serious but it is cleaned up a bit more. Feb 7th -11th I got up at 5:00 went to the gym at 6 then to the temporary fulltime day job and then a few hours with my family then a couple of hours of my business work each evening. I did manage to buy seeds on the way home one day. Feb 12th - I put the last bit of trim up around the craft room window gave it a quick sand then declared it ready for caulking and paint. Later that night my 2 year old and I filled some seed trays with soil then planted onions and leeks. about 30% of my seed trays are now full. The rest will hold tomatoes, peppers and herbs at the least. I'm not sure if I want to start lettuce inside or not. Feb 13th - after watching 5 or 6 birds "fighting" over the one birdhouse by the carport I've been ordered to build a bird condo for a bunch more. So today will be researching that and getting materials if not the entire thing done. I should have everything except for the post I want to sink it on. I'm trying to work out an easy design that will let me stick one of my honeybee bait hives on top of it as well. <edit> The bird house is done. 6 boxes and it fits under the bait hive. Some paint and me buying a 4x4 to put it on and it's ready to go. I also spent a few minutes putting pipe insulation on the exposed hot and cold runs in the basement. unfortunately the part closest to the tank is hidden by the roof and I can't get at it until the tank is replaced and relocated. 63 feet of insulation cost me $7 so I figured I might as well just do it </edit> Last edited by strider3700; 02-13-11 at 11:05 PM..