Kyle's Permie Bootcamp (BRK)

BRK Post 139

I woke up to pouring rain outside. The dirt roads on the lab actually got slippery, all of the hydrophobic dirt was saturated.

I helped Orin for a couple of hours putting his slip straw walls up. I got a little better at mixing the staw and clay together but it is still a slow process.

Later in the afternoon I went back to my biochar, raked it up, and crushed it into smaller bits. It took quite awhile, I'd love to know a better way to crush it.

BRK Post 140

It was gardening day today. And I planted peas again. I planted peas everywhere. Hundreds of peas.

It took the whole morning to plant all of them.

After lunch I worked with Grey to move the solarium forward. We each adjusted one of the long sill mortises to match with the other sills. They look good to me.

Then we cut one log down the center, each half is going to be used on either side of the garage door, flat against the wall. But they need tenons at the bottom. I started one tenon, they aren’t difficult to cut just time consuming to mark out correctly.

We wont get back to the solarium until Thursday, we have been cordially invited to join Josiah on some greenhouse work.

BRK Post 141

This morning’s work had me doing battery maintenance on all of the batteries around the lab. Of course Nine, who had been doing battery maintenance, did such a good job I mostly wandered around looking at perfectly good batteries.

But luckily Josiah had some real work for me to do at the greenhouse.

He needs a retaining wall at the end of each wing wall to hold back any dirt wanting to come around the end.

So I made a good start on that, tomorrow should see it done.

I'm glad the batteries were still in good shape for you. I hope the procedural checklist I made helped too. 😊

How big of a piece of black locust do you need? We have a bunch of it growing here.

heya Kyle, did you see this?

https://permies.com/t/240/44793/permaculture-projects/ant-village#1299313