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Now it has been downgraded to a tropical storm and that means lots and lots of rain. We're hoping the winds won't do a lot of damage here tonight.
Jim is pictured here inside the greenhouse making sure all the nuts and bolts are tight. We anchored the base of the house with metal poles driven into the ground (which is hard clay).
One of the toughest tasks was assembling and hanging a Dutch door. We finally got it hanging so it will open and close.
After "Ida" leaves us, we will build the racks and shelves inside and put all our house plants in the greenhouse for the winter. I hope there's room for the plants I am propogating in some small pots. Plus the many small ferns I have growing - for next summer.
We will be adding a heat lamp for cold weather. I can only imagine the fresh oxygen inside the little house this winter. I will put a chair there for us to go out and sit a spell among all the green plants and get fresh doses of oxygen every day. Maybe this could be our solarium. Too bad there's not room for a hot tub inside the area!
I don't have any other projects planned for the near future. This one just about did us in. We're getting too old for projects such as this. But we will soon forget the problems we had building the greenhouse when we bring out the beautiful house plants next spring to decorate our back porch and carport.
We placed the greenhouse in the middle of the back yard in plain view of our breakfast room window. The bird feeder will be nearby so we can watch the birds while we eat and read the newspaper.
That's what you are supposed to do when you retire! Sit back and take it easy?
