Greenhouse continued…
Didn’t get back to the blog yesterday because I was too busy grooming pets, which is still my first “love” when it comes to work & business. I didn’t manage to spend very long tucking the plastic over the greenhouse yesterday, and when I had free time in the evening, my hands were so sore and swollen that I couldn’t attempt the project. Am better today, with painkillers, but I have two cats to groom, for starters.
One of my friends in Chat lost her husband to congestive heart failure this week… he had been home, diagnosed with pneumonia. This is doubly tragic, as perhaps, had he been in hospital, they would have got the acute episode turned around and he’d have many more years of life: he was 47 years old! My friend had just been saying, “He’d better get well soon, as I sure can’t handle all the work around here.” One of the marvels of the Internet is that I can send flowers across the continent with a few mouse clicks… another wonderful thing is that I even “know” someone in New York because of Chat.
Back to the greenhouse:
In order to gather the plastic neatly at the ends, I did a sort of “girly” thing (perhaps others have done this, but the idea came to me as I laid awake too excited about the greenhouse to sleep). I used strong CORD in a “farmer’s needle” (a big long sucker) and made a running stitch along the lengths of plastic that needed fitting on the ends. I know that I could have FOLDED that material to fit, but felt that the GATHERING did a neater job.
The nature of the woven plastic is that you can make some extra punctures where the material will be secured and it won’t rip as you work with it. I do realize that holes in the poly would weaken it where it’s not supported. At any rate, I was satisfied that the gathered ends appeared tidier than any way I could fold the extra material, and I think I’ve gone on about that enough. I’ll try to get back here with a picture, later.. but now there is a news article about PET SPAS… and I must go watch.
~Ann
