The door is closing on this growing season. To make up for the sense of loss, somehow the season has incredible sweetness. Frost has that effect on things. On fruits, on the the ground, on our souls. It is as if to placate our mournful sense that the pleasant days of fall will give way […]
Uncategorized
Video Bits
Since I started experimenting with video on youtube, and looked into its possibilities, there have been times I also posted a few such moments on Instagram, too. (Usually I would collect those bits and edit them in imovie for a longer length video). You might have seen the shorts I posted here on my chickens, […]
Entering The No Frost Zone
Soon we will will pass the expected last frost dates. Entering the safe time to plant frost sensitive annuals means trips to the garden centers and greenhouses to purchase all my tomatoes and container plants. This has been one year when the temperatures have been quite chilly and I would not have dreamed to try […]
Winter Walk
I made another video, this time of a walk through the garden. Funny how easily forgotten new technology can be. I had to relearn, but it gave me good practice to create more tutorial types of videos for this coming year. I hope you enjoy the little walk with me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Visit Ilona’s Garden […]
Getting started
First order of business in beginning this project is to: Get room cleared out of all the stuff that had accumulated in it over the years. Since the room was basically unusable as an occupied space, it became very useful as a dumping ground. We called this room the “junk room” and it has fulfilled […]
Reason for bowed ceiling
There are a couple reasons for the bowed ceiling. As I previously mentioned, both the floor and the ceiling sagged like a saucer. The sag was about 4″ in the center of the room. Sag reason #1. The old 2×8″ oak joists (roughly 16″ on center) spanned almost 16′. This is undersized for this span […]
