Tuscon bound

So, I’m sitting at the airport waking for my flight to leave. I’m headed to tuscon for a week for a conference. I’ll be at a resort there, in what looks to be a nice 30 degree weather. Should be nice.

Balcony update

Well, im going away this weekend to tuscon for a week, and so i wanted to get most of my seedlings into some soil so that they are easier to take care off and water. so its been a big push the last week to finally set everything out, and boy its looking great!

a view of the length of the balcony
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store bought garlic is huge
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ever bearing strawberries!
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already producing some fruit!
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and cute little flowers
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romaine lettuce from seed
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lots of mint and oregano
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arugala farm
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peas getting bigger
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and climbing up slowly
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some onions from bills garden that i transplanted
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more different types of salad mix
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have you ever heard of this, you buy green onions, cut off the roots, plant them, and a new one sprouts out of it! its working too!
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the new sprout
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the kale is really flowering
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what the jerusalem artichokes used to look like
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and now!
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the wild hops starting off
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and in their new home
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the tomatoes are still under domes
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they are looking good though
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the raspberries, yay!
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some flowers to attract bes!
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a bay tree!
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eggplants from seed
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cucumbers from seed (yes, the same ones from this time lapse!)
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sage from seed
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little arugala seedlings
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the chives are flowering
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thats about the extent of the action on the blcony, lets get a quick update of bills garden
the onion are looking great!
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and my garlic and shallots are, well, looking okay
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PHEW! that was a lot.
i also have some carrots going, but they dont look like, well, anything yet, just planted the seeds.
i also have 3 more special plants i want to talk about, but they need their own blog posts, so ill do that at some later date!

another one of erik’s projects, building a boat!

a while ago i drafted up some plans to erik’s specs, for a catamaran design that he thought up, and wanted to build. so hes started building it, and lets see his progress so far.

first few cuts
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up to no good
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the bow(i think?)
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a week later
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glassing the inside seams
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full view
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expect more excitement to come.
this is just the first pontoon, and erik is going to see how well it float, and then he’s gonna improve on it and build the second one. at least thats the plan.