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!! SEPP to Boot: Stephen's Experience (BEL)

 
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Happy Taco Tuesday to you!!! Sometimes the Tuesday evening meal makes me want to settle down for a long winter's nap. This meal was of that kind. Too bad the sun doesn't go down until after 9:30pm.

Here's a photo of Wes and Catherine, working on the final linkage to the water system for the new well.



After the leak tests we've completed, it seems like there's a bit too much water loss somewhere along the line, so we'll be investigating the intersections we'd built (AKA digging down to them and re-doing a few connections). That's a big job for Wednesday.

Fortunately, the excavator is up and running again. Thanks to Dez and his fuel-line investigative skills.



In the afternoon, the team visited Allerton Abbey for gardening. Here's Ye Olde Swamp Castle, after the start of a major chop n' drop trim. Still not done yet, but the fortress will be in much better form at the end of the week. I'm thinking I'll be dropping in some kale in a few months to see how well it will grow over here.



Finally: here's a Lorquin's Admiral butterfly, just lounging in the middle of the path. It's a cute one.



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A big job to start the day, as expected. We had too many leaks in our new water line, so we needed to dig up the connections we'd made to the main line. Here's one after some serious investigation (no, the cutting of the line was after we found it... it wasn't buried like this!) . The current plan is to add a coupler to one side with a bit more hose, then fuse everything back together. There's also a kinked section of the pipe that will need to be straightened.



Dez piloted the excavator and helped us move as much earth as possible out of the way before we were down to burying depth.



In the afternoon, things were a bit lighter. Here's SEPPer Julia coaching Catherine in updating one of our wood-burned signs.



I busied myself at the close of the day repairing and cleaning-up a section of junkpole fence that had fallen. I have a long way to go before it's considered done.



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There may be demand for broken junkpole fence that needs to be repaired during the SKIP event.  Folks can either make 12' from scratch or repair 24'....  "Totally fallen down and needs to be rebuilt fully" would probably count as new fence.
 
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Some gardening pictures from today's afternoon.

Hmm... Had someone sneaked some Painted Mountain in with our corn? Didn't expect to see pink leaves. It seems otherwise identical to the corn plant next to it.



Speaking of corn, it's grown quite well round here this year so far. We're transitioning to full-on Three Sisters. Pumpkins and pole beans have now been added to the plots, as the corn is tall enough. Here's to hoping for a fantastic harvest this year.



Finally: hahahah! Thanks auto-focus for capturing this intricate spiderweb within a spare kindling cracker... Instead of the fearsome black spider cradling its massive egg sac just behind it.



Also: thanks to Catherine for the pancakes, and thanks to Dez and Wes for sitting in on a game of Silver & Gold.

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Mike Haasl wrote:There may be demand for broken junkpole fence that needs to be repaired during the SKIP event.  Folks can either make 12' from scratch or repair 24'....  "Totally fallen down and needs to be rebuilt fully" would probably count as new fence.


No tree pun intended, but I'd like to spruce things up a bit prior to our new Boots' arrival. This task was part of that.

Rest assured, the fence bits will be ready for your SKIPpers. Junkpoles and supporting members will be conveniently stacked nearby. :)
 
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