Russell Hill Ranch: So Where Did Winter Go?

I always look forward to time after Christmas to do some of those jobs I could not finish before the heat of summer hit. So January was cold and I do mean cold and windy and darn right nasty. And now we are looking at recorder breaking temps. Good grief.

We started working on the greenhouse I had been wanting to years. I guess it was a good thing it took us so long, since what I was going to use for my frame work was the top section to the horse/cattle trailer. If we had then we would have been in a really bad spot. We are looking at getting miniature horses and carts to use with them. The old horse trailer will be perfect for the storing and carrying of the carts and tack and the little horses.

Well a friend had a saying that once you throw your hat over the fence you have to go get it. By that she meant that once you make a commitment to something you have to finish it. A dear friend who is moving to SC gave me her lemon tree. My house is just not set up to grow a lemon tree in the winter. Not enough space or light. So she throw my hat over the fence which finally go us building my long awaited greenhouse. We started putting up the frame work right after New Years but then it got nasty cold and then windy. I had to did a trench to level the cement pads and get it down a little below ground so I could get the siding down below the bottom of the sill plate and then cover up with rock. The two outside walls got put up but it was just not a good time to put up the roof rafters. That got done this past Monday. I had to put that job on hold because I was away for a few weeks working and I just didn't want Bob up there when no one was home.

Today I put the siding up and it is taking shape. Tomorrow Bob may get the extra strips up on the roof so we have some places in between the rafters to screw the roof panels too. We are using a semi clear fiber glass. It is light weight but should hold up well for many years. So here are a few photos of what we have done so far. I think the next project will be trying to make the doors so they open as wide as I can get them and also make them as air tight as possible. I have hopes of this job being done by Sat afternoon. Then on to other things which will include starting seeds for my vegetable garden.