Bee's Bootcamp Journey

Day 8 - BRK
Today in the morning I took ol’ Judi to grab some water so we can continue soaking the primary hugels. After initiating the watering, we cleaned up and organized the library, then went down to the shop and organized a bit more.
Once we finished lunch, we started working on the solarium. Notching out for the rafters, and posts. This was my first experience with doing any kind of timber framing, and I enjoyed it! Though a bit tedious, it’s the type of work that suits me well.  Working with my hands and paying attention to detail. We spent the whole afternoon cutting, chiseling, and filing the notches in that beam. Almost done with with it now.
Dinner time means taco Tuesday! A tradition I’m coming to love. Because we all take part in preparing the meal. It’s wonderful. This is community. This is the way I believe people are meant to live.
Not separate, secluded or isolated. But connected & interdependent.
Another day in the books.
I’m forever grateful for everything I’m able to be a part of. I truly wish to be of service, and help as much as I can. For one never knows when their time might be up.

I made a water hose holder thing in my spare time
This is BEE, over n' out.

 That deserves an apple. My metal hose hanger disappeared and it did not hold enough hoses anyway.  Have a split in half utility pole reused many time for gate post but now to short for that but perfect for a hose horse. [My sister would have used it for a saddle horse.]  I hang my hoses in a figure 8 so they don't tangle when they come off.

Thanks Hans! I’m hoping this thing holds up well. It seems sturdy enough. I’m curious bout the figure 8 thing?

To put the hose on the hose horse in a figure 8 push a loop of hose under the porch over the support. with the bottom loop of the loop on the ground push another loop back over the end. Note that the hose will make a figure 8. Keep repeating until all of the hose is on the support. This does not put a twist in the hose as wrapping the hose in a circle does. screw the ends of the hose together through the bottom loop to keep one from tangling with an other.

Day 9 - BRK

Today we started with gardening. I chopped and dropped a bunch of grass to mulch a small part of my patch. I also harvested some red and white potatoes and cooked a few with some eggs for lunch. They really don’t get any fresher than that!
After lunch we worked on the solarium. Marking and cutting to give a level surface to notch for the rafters and marking the log for the depth of the rafter notches. Yesterday we managed to get the beam up and mounted on the garage side. We carriage bolted the beam to the 2x6’s on the inside.
We also did a battery maintenance run, checking all of the batteries at base camp and the lab.

Here’s a video of Dez and Grey starting the cut to level a beam for the solarium.
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Day 10 - BRK

Today is boot gardening day. We started with watering and I also mulched a portion of my hugel plot, and then I enjoyed the simple task of harvesting potatoes. I ended up with a decent load. After my PB&J lunch, we went down to the shop to mill some lumber with the saw mill. Come to find out, we needed to make some minor adjustments to the calibration of the log and frame of the mill. I’m still constantly learning about this thing. Having no previous background with any type of saw mill, it’s taking a bit of figuring out. We milled a nice lot of boards. Still ironing out all of the kinks. The good news is that the saw motor belt seems to be staying in place and is not getting torn up.
Today was a good day. I’m convinced that tomorrow will be another one. See y’all on the flip side.

the ‘this one looks weird’ one looks something like a blue hubbard. if it gets ripe enough it ought to be good eating!

I just looked it up. It sure does look like one. I’ve never tasted a blue Hubbard before. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thanks for identifying it for me!