Wednesday, May 26, 2010

screened in porch installation, part 1

Exciting developments on the free-standing screened porch project. While I sat, slack-jawed and drooling from the heat at my desk, Kevin got busy stacking the corner pieces in the doorway:

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He brought these pieces outside to the area of the deck where we want to put this thing. Please admire the table and chairs in the foreground – they’re new.

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“Oh look!” says the blogger with attention deficit disorder. “The second tomato plant has flowered!”

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And, since I’ve already hijacked my own post, let me show you the cilantro, which has been putting out its cilantro leaves, instead of just its two baby germination leaves (cotyledons, if you wanna get all technical). The narrow leaves are the cotyledons. The toothy ones are the real deal. Yum!

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Oh jeez, look what he’s done just since I’ve been admiring the babies – he’s got the horizontal support rods up:

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Now he’s assembling the roof pieces. Note the knee brace. He had his first appointment for PT (post-surgery) today with Amy. He worked with Amy after his shoulder surgery a couple of years ago, too.  We l-o-o-o-v-e Amy! She smiles delightfully as she Gets the Job Done.100_1718

 

Here’s the almost-completely assembled roof.…

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At this point, I figured I’d start helping. We put the secondary roof struts on top of the main roof, and then got the fabric on…

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And then we hoisted the whole thing up onto the frame…

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…and then actually attached the roof to the frame, in each of the corners and midpoints…

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OK, that’s enough for one day. Tomorrow, we’ll straighten out the fabric of the roof, and attach the mosquito netting walls.

In other news, it’s Wednesday, and you know what that means…the CSA pickup. No pictures for you today, but did you know that you can make a smoothie out of the most interesting things? I wouldn’t recommend red giant mustard in a smoothie, though. That’s more than a *ping!* of chlorophyll – that’s a kick in the pants. Live and learn, I guess.

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