alex caldwell

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BEL day 4

As always feel free to give feedback on what you'd like to see more/less of.

Feel free to let me know if there's anything anyone would like to see (or not see)
BEL day 3

Currently day 4, but will post about it tomorrow

Video for day 3

Nancy Reading wrote:Good to know the book is safe....

Thanks for the tour round Alex! Not all glamorous tree cutting, but floors and sinks are also important parts of living well. I'm really intrigued by the greenhouse



I might make a trip up to the lab in the coming blizzard, but we'll see how things go.

Definitely curious to see the temp readings and see how it feels during it.

Nancy Reading wrote:Thanks for the walkabout Clay! The Cooper cabin is a really nice space and the greenhouse is passively doing it's thing well. Looks like the bark park is nearly ready for four footed visitors too!



My three legged doggo finds that he too would enjoy the completed bark park
BEL Day 2

Currently on day 3 but takes a bit to do videos so I'm posting with a one day lag.

We worked on the flooring, moving some logs and toured the Labs while checking the status of everything for the winter.


Video below:

Thank you Timothy and Jeremy, more to follow.

Just fighting to get the GoPro Video imported to linux so I can upload to youtube, etc.
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Started the day by working on the insinkerator hot water under sink heating element.

Spent a good few hours breaking down all of the calcium deposits that built up using citric acid and even occasionally baking soda

Then we went up and chainsawed some dead standing trees that were already felled by nature.

We got a few logs chopped to size and hoisted up onto the truck Roy. He struggled a bit to get up the frozen hill, but he made it up alright.

Took a bit of work to drag the logs over to the truck using some log carriers and ran past Stephen's fallen tent that was felled as well, but by the weight of the snow.

After hoisting the logs onto Roy then getting them down the mountain we went back to descaling and fixing the sink issues. Aside from the hot water spout on the insinkerator spitting out hot water after it turns off, it was also leaking into the sink cabinet.

We had to readjust the sink's pea trap as the threads are shot on the main drain under the sink.

Unfortunately after the insinkerator was all put back together, the gasket was no long doing gaskety things and so the insinkerator is now on the repair shelf with a replacement coming in through Amazon. Can't win every battle, i suppose. but some potential solutions were looked at, such as using cut out gasket or fill in gasket to fix the leaking.

We then spent the remainder of the day getting the sink back in order and cleaning up the mess that existed beneath the sink.