Growing vegetables in January in Idaho. At least there is no snow on the ground.
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Green House (mostly completed)
As the cold began to settle in we put the wrap on the green house. It is all done except for a handful of finishing touches and the floor.
From humble beginnings…
To framed… 
To all but needing a door…
and here with a lot of help from Austin, is the food machine, I mean flowering paint garden.
Fall Fade, Where oh where have the colors gone?
“With a chill in the air the colors retreat, our time so short, our time so sweet. Things are drying, things are dying, soon I won’t be Scrying.”
It is getting tough to find good colors now, many plants have stopped blooming and others, their petals and parts are drying out, their luster lost for another year.
It is mid March and I have painted very little in the last 4-6 weeks, not because of the fall fade, but primarily because my free time has been tied up working on the greenhouse, which is nearing completion, at least enclosure.
The frame is complete and we have the plastic warming in the sun, with plans to get it on a little later today and then comes all of the finishing touches. We ended up finding a UV coated tarp from a company called Tarpaflex that seems like it will make a great cover. It is thick and strong and UV coated. Pictures coming as soon as I get a chance.
Green House Beginnings
What does one do when they need more colors to work with? Buy new flowers? Yes, that is certainly an option, but better yet is to give your supplier more tools to create them for you with…ok, so technically I had already been planning to build the greenhouse to increase the food supply, but now it has even more uses.
Thus, this weekend I finally broke ground on what will be our first greenhouse. I’ll post pictures to show its progress as I work on it, which may mean about once every six months, I like to take my time since I have no idea what I am doing and really like to think about where that nail needs to go before I bother getting my hammer out.
