Today I hand split (my preference) a bit of wood to heat the greenhouse and did my normal routine of looking for bugs, checking water levels, a little bug spraying, checking the hydroponic system and picking some tomatoes and ground lettuce (for "Speedy" the dwarf rabbit who roams our house). The splitter is for the 4 foot diameter hickory tree which defies my pounding with the hand splitter.
The greenhouse is a classic "Marty Project", lots of vision, a little shakey in details and finish, and requires help by others, (help can somtimes be 90% of the project). This one was even more interesting because after grading the hilltop and dumping stones, and then a bunch of pounding of the steel pipe into the ground and a very few other things I abandoned Harrisburg and went to New Orleans for a month and my cousin Steve continued the project as he does many times.
Still to this day it is not really complete, but that hasn't stopped me from using it, in fact I put the fish (more on that another day) in the roofless footprint before I left for New Orleans. We even just got gas backup heat into it about a week ago thanks to Steve and my Uncle Pepper.
But despite all of that, we've eaten cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce etc from the Greenhouse.
This is another piece of the Marty philosophy - when you have enough done to do something with it, do it. Rarely does this really impact the strategic value of the project, usually it refines it. My poor wife Diane sees this all the time in me, my engineering incrementalism is applied everywhere.
I can't remember if it was my friend Seth or who - they equated this with God's ability to use us despite not having perfected us.
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