Post #9692

Today we gave up on waiting to take the poly cover back off the greenhouse and flipping it over. You may recall we installed it upside down so the UV protective coating was on the underside. The wind has not stopped blowing for 3 weeks. We didn't trim the poly so that we'd have enough extra material for the reversal... and it has flapped so much in the wind that the poly plastic has fatigued and started to split on the loose edges. The center is holding fine... just those flappy edges. So today I trimmed the edges within 3-6 inches. Also, the greenhouse is located at the bottom of a long slow slope and the last time it rained water over flowed the concrete threshold. So today I put about 10 buckets of soil a few feet up the slope from the door to divert water to the left or right. And finally, today we continued to install wooden posts (ie old telephone poles) to make H braces and hinge/striker posts for the new fence line. I've got to run a cattle fence from the end of our drive way entrance -> 6' gate -> 300' -> h brace ->100' -> 12' gate -> 500' to the back line of this field. Once all these wooden posts are installed, I can begin in earnest driving T posts in with my pneumatic fence post driver. We've converted an old boat trailer to a fencing trailer with a rack to hold posts and the gas powered air compressor mounted. so not too much going on today.... if you wondered why I wasn't posting much lately.