It was Super bowl Sunday. I haven’t been doing very well spiritually, and I didn’t really want to go to church. So I didn’t. Again.
It’s sort of weird for me to think about church as an option instead of a necessity. It’s like the difference between high school and college, almost. In high school, you got in trouble if you didn’t go to class. In college, professors generally didn’t care. It was up to you. To decide how you wanted your education to go.
I still plan on going to church regularly. I’m just not quite ready right now.
Instead of going to church, and knowing that lots of people were doing Super bowl parties and stuff, I decided to drive to Oklahoma to see if I could get a whole bunch done on the greenhouse and maybe surprise Jim a little bit by getting a lot done.
I didn’t get out there until a bit later., so I didn’t get a whole lot done, but I made some progress, so that’s something.
It was super cold. A cold front was blowing in, and little teeny tiny sleet pellets were starting to come down here and there while I was there.
Disassembling the one that was fully intact is much more of a challenge. First of all, there’s a lot more to take off if you are trying to reuse parts. Second, the top was installed in such a way that might be normal, but it certainly complicates the disassembly. Along the center of the greenhouse lengthwise, there’s a piece of wood that runs on the top of all the hoops. That helps to keep the hoops equidistant and solidly in place.
That wasn’t the new part. We dealt with that on the previous greenhouse that we took apart. The new part was that not only was there the regular plastic over the top of the hoops, which I didn’t have to take off on the other greenhouse, but on top of the plastic was another row of wood running the entire length of the 100 ft greenhouse. It is bolted on top of the plastic, so you’ve got plastic sandwiched between wood.
The only way of removing that top piece of wood without everything being super awkward and challenging is to have a lift that could raise you over the greenhouse to the middle.
I chatted with one of my brothers about a potential solution, to see if he had any creative ideas. He had some ideas, and I’ll keep thinking about what else might be able to be done.
Oh, I forgot to mention that one of my nephews moved back to Arkansas, so that’s kind of fun to have him back. He came over to visit this morning, and we chatted for a little bit.
Back to the greenhouse…
As I was disassembling the base of one of the ends of the greenhouse, I pulled away a piece of wood, looked at where the wood had been, and saw the biggest black widow that I’ve ever seen in my entire life. It’s butt was about the size of a marble I wouldn’t be surprised if end-to-end with legs and everything if it weren’t an inch and a half to 2 in. 😶
I found a plastic water bottle and and used a little twig to get the black widow inside to bring it home as the bit of a show and tell. 😅
Anyway, perhaps the biggest success of the day was managing to get the outer opaque plastic cover for the greenhouse wrapped all the way back over the top of the greenhouse and back down the other side. The wind had blown it from one side to the other, but being sandwiched between the outer layer of wood that was running along the top of the greenhouse lengthwise and the layer of wood below the plastic, it could only blow over halfway. So I had to find a way to bring it all the way back.
Gratefully, it wasn’t that difficult, once I got going. I got it pulled over the top, and I got the plastic weighted down, So hopefully it won’t blow off again.
🤞
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 