Shed progression

Well, I am writing papers and a final exam in hopes to be all done by the end of April, so I am not doing too much artwork until Sunday. Monday will be my next designated day of art- no phone, no errands, simply working in the studio.

BUT here are more pictures of the shed preparation. Tim has cut all the trees down and our next door neighbor Matt is helping him with the clean up work. Tim has also gotten lots of leftover/odds and ends pieces of wood from the local building supply house at greatly reduced prices - that is what is under the blue tarps.

Look how nicely the wood and branches are stacked up! I am going to see if I can take the lines in this and make a printing screen!

I am thankful this has all been done safely. The last day of being in the trees was very windy. I was at work but fortunatly Tim's friend, John, was here on the ground helping with the ropes directing branches coming down. Tim ended up taking down that last tree and he didn't hit the house! He figures the total cost including paying helpers and the used equipment to climb the trees was $500 compared to the $5000 it would have cost to have a tree trimmer do the work.

The other thing I worked on today was putting in some cold weather veggies. Parsley, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce and spinach. We bought some herbs but they are in various window sills for another month until the ground warms up some more. We decided we would try and use our one sunny spot for veggies and herbs rather than flowers this year. Tim buried a soak hose in the garden in hopes that we would also not waste water by watering from the top. Instead the water will go straight to the roots.

He is doing lots of research on Cisterns too. Since the township requires a retention basin for any new building (even a "shed") he is going to turn our retention basin into a cistern so we can store and pump out later during the dry times the water we have stored that came from the workshop roof. Pretty cool huh!