Day 5: Thursday, 2025/02/20
I woke up this morning to find that even though I thought I had plugged in the slow cooker to cook the bones to make a bone broth for today’s lunch, turns out that I hadn’t actually completely plugged it in. There was an adapter that I pulled away from the socket that I had plugged into. As a result, the bones were not cooked. Since it basically had been sitting out at room temperature all night, I felt bad about giving it to anyone. I Still made a turkey vegetable soup for our lunch before the 8 AM meeting today.
All morning I spent working on the round wood Greenwood chair. I made some tenons on the rungs. Paul has some nice tools to be able to do that. I use the bit brace to form the tenons. I need 1 inch tenants. They were gonna go in the legs. I drilled my first mortise just before lunchtime. I inserted the Tennant into the mortise and it was really tight. So I twisted it. I pushed it. I got a wooden mallet and I whacked out it a little bit. I got it to go in a little bit, but not as far as I would’ve liked. It was a really tight fit. So I took the wooden mallet and I banged on it some more a little bit harder this time. It went in a little bit more, but not too much. Still not as much as I would’ve like. So I whacked at it more harder this time. it went in only just a little bit more. Still it wasn’t in far enough. So I really whacked out it hard that the last time. And I proceeded to crack the leg. So disappointing. Basically, I had to scrap the project because I couldn’t work on it in the morning in the afternoon. One of my legs was broken. And green woodworking needs to be done pretty quick after you cut down the tree. i’m not disappointed that I worked on it though. I learned a lot. It was fun too.
For lunch, we ate the turkey Vegetable soup. It turned out pretty good. I had two bowls and Paul had three! There’s plenty more since I made it in a big pot. So I can freeze some for paul so that he can have it later on.
In the afternoon Alex and I went to go check on something in the workshop. When we got in there, we noticed that it smelled a little bit like smoke. We didn’t see any smoke. It only smelled like there was a hint of smoke.This concerned us and so we went to go look at the rocket the batch box rocket heater in the workshop that we had been running before lunch. when we got over there, we noticed that there was some wetness close to the vertical exhaust. This caused us to want to inspect some other places and check to see if there were leaks coming in. We found some very slowly dripping water from the roof. So we went on an investigation to see where the leak could be coming from and if there were anymore. We only found that one. But investigating let us outside and we noticed that there was some snow that was in between the berm shed, and the classroom that was going to fall off of the roof into that small space. We also noticed that the snow was melting and getting closer and closer to the berm shed. This concerned us because water plus wood equals no good. So we cleaned away some of the snow around the berm shed and we cleaned the snow off the roof partially. Then we took a few hours and cleaned all the snow or at least most of it from in between the berm shed in the classroom. It was some tiring work because it was ice mixed in with it. So we used a pickax as well as shovels and some wheelbarrows and pulled the snow and ice out from that tight space away from there. That finished the day for us. It was 5 PM.
When I got back to the Fisher-Price house, I talked with Paul about the leak and about cleaning up the snow in between the firm shed in the classroom. Paul and I brainstorm a couple of different ideas to try to help solve the problem of having snow land in between there. We had a really nice conversation with a lot of good ideas. The one that both Paul and I liked perhaps the best, was to utilize some glass, maybe even shower pains from the waist dream to act as an extension to the roof to overhang onto the brim shed. This would we would use several of these, but not enough to cover the entire space of the classroom just every few feet used one. This wouldn’t completely remove this or prevent the snow from coming in, but it would reduce it and make it much more manageable. Since these glass shower doors were are made from glass, they got a lot of light in. This was one of Paul’s concerns about doing the obvious choice which would be to extend the berm shed or the roof to where the broom shed is so that no snow could get in there. Paul was very much concerned that there wouldn’t be enough light in that part of the brim shed. Using the glass pans, however, would not have the same problem because it wouldn’t be covering the entire space, nor it would be opaque. Glass is transparent after all. I finished off the day eating last night, pizza and talking to a friend. On the phone.
This is going to be my last entry for now, since I’m going home tomorrow. It was a short week here at wheaton labs. The time went by much too quickly. I wish I could stay a lot longer. I can’t wait until next time that I can come here.