Greenhouse update

Boards start to go up.

7 a.m. 43 deg
6:15 p.m. 52 deg
Cloudy with a cool breeze.

Greenhouse Construction

After the end of the second day, all 18 posts are cemented into the holes.

7 a.m. 27 degrees
5:45pm 64 degrees

Greenhouse Contstruction Starts!

Greenhouse construction started today!
Harry hired Trinity Construction to build a base for the greenhouse to sit on, since the ground isn't flat at the site.
Robert and Mark came out and started work today- first they dig 18 holes for the footers. Poor guys, they really earned their money. The ground was so rocky they had to use a pickaxe to dig the holes- and the holes were two feet deep. Ugh!
7 a.m. 47 degrees
5 p.m. 59 degrees

Computer woes

I always felt sorry for people that seemed to have a lot of computer problems. Today, it was my turn! I was using my laptop and set it aside on the floor to eat some pizza. I partially closed the top of it, but was in the middle of updating the Lakeside Callas website so I didn't want to turn it off. Horrors- as I reached for a glass of grape juice, I tipped it and it spilled on the computer (and the chair, and the floor, and my papers, and the sofa...). The computer initially seemed OK but then I couldn't turn it off- and then later I couldn't turn it on. Loss of the computer I could deal with, but I had never backed up anything from my hard drive- mostly hundreds and hundreds of photos I didn't want to lose!
After a lot of searching, we could only find one computer repair place in the area. The owner seemed nice but she was doubtful about repairing a Dell, so I continued looking.... I ended up calling Dell, even though the computer was out of warranty. They could repair it, but could not guarantee the hard drive.
Luckily, it didn't take them very long to repair it, and when I plugged my hard drive back in, everything was back to normal! Of course, the first thing I did was burn all my photos to CDs!
7 a.m. 19 degrees
5:30 p.m. 52 degrees
Partly cloudy day

Snow!

7 a.m. 34 degrees
We celebrated Valentine's Day by waking up to snow! Everything had a light covering and it looked so pretty. Didn't last very long, though.

Another Visitor

This is a terrible photo, but I wanted to share with you some little visitors we had this week. Bluebirds! Eastern Bluebirds, to be exact.
They are so incredibly blue, especially when they fly. Their feathers are the same blue as the blue on plastic tarps.
And Dad, that's T-a-r-p.
Not Carp.

Bryant's Inlet Part 2

As you look at the photos of the inlet, keep in mind that in April, this will all be water- right up to the tree line. The only thing I don't like about our lake is that you can walk around the water's edge like you can in lakes up north. The photo with the very orange soil is of the main channel of the lake. Again, that will all be under water soon.

Bryant's Inlet

OK, so that really isn't the name of our inlet, but we like to call it that. It doesn't seem like it would be interesting to have a lake inlet with no water in it, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. There are all different sorts of rocks- quartz and shale, other types too. The bottom isn't flat like you would think, it is full of hills and valleys. Sort of like walking on the moon... Driftwood blows into the inlet, here I'm burning a pile of it left behind once the water level dropped.

A Visitor

A Red- Bellied Woodpecker. He's so big he flips his tail up to help hold him on the feeder.