Was out early yesterday morning getting the trio picked. It was a moderate harvest and we are getting a healthy load of tomatoes ripening in the house.
The waters all needed filling for the birds and animals and I also pulled this from the hut and got it filled so the duckling will have water accessible.
I headed back out and went through the cabbage rows and got a bunch of tiny heads.
I had let some bases regrow which gave me gold ball sized heads. In the end it is better to just pull the roots when I cut the heads and not let them regrow.
For years I have had various different plastic sheets tacked on the outside of the patio railing to keep the splashes from the rain running off the roof back. I was digging around by the coop and found that the office dividers had gotten weather worn such that I could rip them apart. They are metal lined sheets on either side which are 23"x7'and work perfect. I overlapped the two in the middle and this will do wonders for the patio.
The roof has drained shitty and caused a lot of wear to the house around the kitchen window. I pulled that plastic I had in the section, laid it on the ground below, then scraped a ton of the paint off onto the plastic.
I didn't get all the paint off, just the stuff that was loose and flaking.
Back behind the coop I tore into the dividers and stacked out a bunch of sheets to haul to the house. The dividers all have hollow core construction with chipwood all around it. The chipwood was what fell to dust letting the panels pull apart.
The two panels were the perfect length and went up with the top overlapping the bottom.
Then it was a pain to cut but I got it done.
That piece went on and I have finally got the patio and house far better protected from rain. I can't use gutters since the snow load and ice in the winters just rips them off. The only two things I have thought could work would be a heat cable for the ice dams and maybe cutting a piece of 4" pvc length wise and mounting it for s super strong gutter.
Over the afternoon I worked on packing for the weekend, cleaned more in the inner yard, then @stryeyz got back from our friend's surgery which went perfectly.
Today I have to get harvests done, finish packing, make sure farm is prepped for potential rain, I have my IFS this morning, then it's of the Creston BC for some time. Hopefully I will get to fly this afternoon.
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| 2024 Y/E Hive Goals | Goal | Current | +/- Goal | +/Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HP | 30,000 | 27,881 | +731 | 109 |
| HBD Savings | 4,030 | 3,338 | / | 15 |
| Hive Posting Streak Days | 1,681 | 1,550 | / | 5 |
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