/312 - Last Bounty

Emi and I collected probably the last bit of things out of the garden. There are still some unripe tomatoes, but not sure if they will make it due to the increasing cold. We had an incredible yield this year compared to last year, and it sort of scares me to think of what next year will bring! I’d really love an indoor greens garden for the winter, but in case you haven’t noticed I already have a lot of projects up in the air. Who knows, it would be a really great thing to have and maybe probably not as complicated as I think. (maybe)

Emily turns 4 tomorrow!

/219 - It's A Jungle In Here

Undeterred (though not trying to shoot panoramas) I took these pictures of the garden tonight when I went to water. IT’S CRAZY. This is so much more than we had last year in the same footprint. I am expecting to be drowning in veggies in a few weeks. (A great problem to have - I think.)

/215 - Corruption

Went out to water the garden and tried taking a panoramic pic, but was having a hard time keeping it steady while moving around the boxes. I gave it a hard time back.

/201 - Garden

Things in the garden are taking off way faster than they did last year. We added the box on top for extra depth and mixed in the stinkiest mushroom compost. The tomatoes did nothing until very lte last year and we already have flowers. I also see this frog out there every night when I go water. No matter how close I get he just sits there. Now if only we can just get the chipmunks to be as chill and stop digging up the carrots every night.

/176 - Dawn Chorus

We forgot to water the garden last night so I was out there very early today and brought the h4n. Despite living so close to the school and some main intersections (we’re on a dead end street) we’ve always got a yard full of activity. It’s very nice, even if the huge yard can be a lot to take care of. I like to leave it as wild as I can though. ;)

/164 - It's a Jungle In Here

Really hope the weather this weekend is as nice as they’re saying so we can get the garden planted — it’s getting pretty crazy down there.

/143 - Testing, Overgrowing

L: Tried out cutting a finger-joint box as a test for the main body of Brad’s euro case. Worked fine, but need to tweak my settings to get a tighter fit. Hopefully he won’t even need to use glue to hold it all together.

R: It’s still cold outside but the basement jungle keeps growing and growing. It would be a real disappointment to have the plants wilt/die before we can get them in the ground. C’mon spring!

/140 - Junto!

I finally completed my goal of participating in a weekly junto project. I went through the paper drums recordings I made and found quite a few cool sounds. I was very surprised at how easy it was to make kick sounds, and how hard it was to make cymbal-like sounds. I could have spent a long time tweaking them, but decided to just let them fly. Individual files can be downloaded here.

Other than that, we spent today working outside and in the garden. We built our square-garden plots last year and although we had a good harvest in general we have heard our tomatoes will be better with more soil. Today I built the 6” box toppers and we got everything mulched. The compost to fill the boxes will come next week, and if it ever stops snowing/freezing we can get things in the ground. The basement is starting to look like a jungle.

In other other news, I also started working on a project for a friend. Let’s see where it goes…

/135 - Next Steps 3

L: Cut a test run for the dust shoe top plate to check size and alignment. It’s HUGE, but the alignment is good and that’s the most important part. Will revise to trim it down and see if I can fix the stepping on the curved edges.

R: The sprouts are huge! We need to get them repotted into larger containers soon because they’re getting crowded and it’s still several more weeks before we can get them into the garden. I also need to figure out where to get the lumber to add some depth to the raised beds. Not particularly interested in waiting in line inside and outside of Lowes right now.

/120 - Next Steps

We already have sprouts!

Got the dust shoe (for those that might not know — a dust shoe is the name for a mount which attaches a vacuum and directs the suction towards the cutter to suck up the dust/debris) bracket done and mounted.

Now I just have to design the rest of it…

(sorry if this is boring haha)

/118 - First Steps

Ash and Emi got the seeds started for this year’s garden today. I found them a warm shelf in the basement, and rigged up the lights and timer. I also finally managed to cut the bracket that will hold the cam clamp to the gantry for the dust shoe I’m designing. It needs a few tweaks, but once I get those ironed out it should work nicely.