We just got a good sprinkle of rain, there were no new plants popped up before the rain, now radishes, peas carrots and a few of the others have popped up.
I finally finished framing the greenhouse, I kinda botched the two supports for the end but it will do, I need to figure out how to properly measure and cut compound angles. Now I need to find or make some lath to screw down on top of the plastic, the wind here will rip the plastic off right quick.
A few more good dump finds, a older CRT iMac which I've been hoping for a while to find and setup for the wife to use, also a decent P4 machine and plenty of ram and hard drive space to go around.
Found a perfectly good 2 burner Coleman propane stove, just need to buy the tank connector. A sit down hand crank sharpening wheel, the frame is wobbly but my wire feed welder can fix that, and the bearings are blown out on one side but I also found a pair of sealed bearings that might do the trick. I need to go back to the dump pretty quick to check for some bathtubs to use as raised planters in the greenhouse, last time I went all of the tubs were pushed up into the high pile and I ain't riskin' life and limb for a free bathtub or such.
I started a rant about food supply in this thread, but it got a little long so it should appear above this one.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
OMFG choking at sight of flour price
We took a ride into town today to do a little of this and that, stopped at the local grocer, Lord Thunderin' Jesus help us all, $14.00 for a 10kg bag of the store brand white flour (just about 25lbs fer you 'mericans).
Probably only 1 week ago it was I believe $8 to $10 depending on brand, I thought the prices were going to climb bit by a little over the summer, but nope. We were warned it was coming, now it's here. Stocking up on tangibles doesn't seem like such a bad idea now does it?
A grain mill certainly just climbed way the heck up in my machinery to get list.
Not much new marked off of the projects list, other than a decent desktop computer. I picked up a 2ghz Athlon machine from the dump that was simply borked by viri and spyware, nothing a little linux injection won't fix. My goodness I wanted one of these machines when they first come out, they are still overkill for my day to day computing.
A few other dump finds, mower that worked first pull with fresh oil & gasoline, more bikes blah blah blah.
Got a load of peat for the garden, now I'm set to plant, and just in time from what the locals are telling me.
No work done on the greenhouse yet, still sniffing around for some free lumber, but I'll probably have to break down and buy it.
Almost forgot, for those that are stocking up on Calcium Hypochlorite pool shock for water disinfection but have yet to find info on how to use it check out the USA EPA directions http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/faq/emerg.html
That's all for now.
Probably only 1 week ago it was I believe $8 to $10 depending on brand, I thought the prices were going to climb bit by a little over the summer, but nope. We were warned it was coming, now it's here. Stocking up on tangibles doesn't seem like such a bad idea now does it?
A grain mill certainly just climbed way the heck up in my machinery to get list.
Not much new marked off of the projects list, other than a decent desktop computer. I picked up a 2ghz Athlon machine from the dump that was simply borked by viri and spyware, nothing a little linux injection won't fix. My goodness I wanted one of these machines when they first come out, they are still overkill for my day to day computing.
A few other dump finds, mower that worked first pull with fresh oil & gasoline, more bikes blah blah blah.
Got a load of peat for the garden, now I'm set to plant, and just in time from what the locals are telling me.
No work done on the greenhouse yet, still sniffing around for some free lumber, but I'll probably have to break down and buy it.
Almost forgot, for those that are stocking up on Calcium Hypochlorite pool shock for water disinfection but have yet to find info on how to use it check out the USA EPA directions http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/faq/emerg.html
That's all for now.
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