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6/17/06 - Saturday
MLA
Notes
- Chris does bugstuff n firewood while Cass putting food/items away from Friday and in yurt chores
- Chris and Mel the Snake meet - have a little stare-down. Snake has made home in a pc of cast iron pipe out by firewood and really startled Cass yesterday.
- Cass getting too much mold exposure w/so much rain and down trees etc in area
- Veg wrap lunch together in yurt
- At night, post-sitework, post-dinner singsonging. The C+C punkified "Civil War" groove.
- Late night yoga session
305.04 Daitomaceous earth
- Take that, ants!
- time: 1 hr
305.01 Garlic spray
- Really makes me hungry for pizza
- take that, bugs!
- time: 2 hrs
- great, it rained briefly this afternoon. (Sigh...)
Cut Firewood
- A little snake was watching me
- time: 1 hr
213.27 WC Platform: shape ground for drainage/ lay gravel/stone over site
- C+C review outside and Chris the project Foreman says Done - Check it Off the List. He might have said Yippee! except there was a lot of tasks on the agenda
- time: 0.25hr
306.02 Test on safety: materials and tools (diatomaceous + spreader)
- also did screen house at same time
- time: 0.5hr
305.07 Screen house
- move SIPPEE, Cass can seed that area, setup new one
- no way is it 14' as advertised!
- SIPPEE2? Or sSIPPEE (with a silent "s", as in second SIPPEE)
- Rain downpour while inside checking out...there goes the garlic spray...grrr!
- And, can't take down SIPPEE1
- Relocated solar panel
- time: 1.25 hrs
303 Erosion (general)
- C+C review of work and status
- ditch build up by spring is OK
- diversion ditch above 20' s/b ok also
- go ahead and seed area
- eventually will want to build up the rock "wall" alongside 20'/curtain drain
- discussed having stairs entry go up over large rock...that'd be cool!
- time: 0.5hr
213.01 Footings
- review ones Cass dug during wk, and outstanding two-person troubleshooting
- too many shrooms near tree-rooted hole, Chris takes over that one
- verified ledge on several
- Chris tested drainage pump...YIPPEE - it works!
- time: 2.5 hrs
Chris waits out the storm
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