Yard-work around Jacobhouse.

2/26/19:

Building Summary: Today I neatened up around the outside of Jacobhouse. This included picking up wood scraps, trimming wild geraniums, and ‘rebuilding’ the electric fence by planting the posts into 5-gallon buckets filled with dirt (instead of simply driving the posts into the ground)*.  I also began taking down measurements for the remaining floorboards that are to be placed in closet / office area of the container home.

Commentary: It’s getting close to my 12-hour point – that moment in time when I’ve been up and at it for half a day straight – so I must keep my commentary relatively brief. For today’s highlight, I think it has to be the fact that Jacobhouse’s yard was ‘manicured’. Between my utilizing the gardening shears around the front step and Uncle Wag bringing in the little tractor-mower, the plant-life was tamed to a more humble state. Saying that, the verdure left over after the frostburn had been shorn away was quite spectacular**.

Final Note: Tomorrow I am going to make a supply run into town with Madre. There, I plan on getting some Cortex trim screws and perhaps some trim boards for the front interior entry.

*I already benefited from this innovative form of fence, for today, I was able to move the southernmost ‘post-bucket’ out of the way when Wag could not pass between it and the green sail-shade post.

**The smell was also quite something. Sheperd’s purse, a weed that likes growing this time of year, emits an overpowering minty odor when cut. It was so strong this morning that I could actually taste it on my tongue.