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Tuesday afternoon we opened the big boxes in the middle of the back yard and took all the thousand or more parts out to make sure nothing was missing (found an important template missing today).
Then we selected a spot to place the greenhouse. We wanted it in an area where we could see it from the back porch, or from the breakfast room window.
That done, we had to dig up a redbud tree and move it to another place. That little tree had roots all the way to China! Then we started putting the frame of the greenhouse together. What a chore! It's bad when you can't follow directions using drawings and pictures. They leave out a lot of steps, or at least for us it seems they do.
We laughed when the instructions stated that 2 people could put this greenhouse together in 1/2 day. It took us that long to unpack it and just lay out the parts. Today we finished "snapping" the frame together. The more you add, the heavier it gets. The next step is to start putting the "glass" into the frame. It isn't really glass but some kind of special material that looks like glass and can take the high temperatures.
We probably will have it finished by this time next week. Can't wait to put all of my many green pot plants inside the greenhouse for the cold winter. We will have electricity and water connected to it (will have to pay someone to do that).
I'm thinking that on a cold winter day I will take a cup of coffee out to the greenhouse, a good book, and a chair with a cushion and spend some time in my "solarium" - and breathe in some good oxygen.
An added note: The banana tree we dug up last winter and took to a dump behind our house, came up this summer and I hadn't noticed it until a recent frost turned the large leaves yellow. It really stands out with all the tall weeds and trees. Maybe next summer it will have some bananas on it.
