Sunday, Monday work

Here is the gate billn built last week at the work day at senior daughter E's school. The posts were there from the beginning, as was the left hand gate. We built and hung the right hand gate. Those of you familiar with the philosophy of E's school know that this crooked, bent gate fits perfectly with the rest of the fencing system.

Jenm cleaned and painted the medicine chests (it is nice to recycle material like that). The medicine chests are serviceable, just dilapidated looking. Some cleaning fluid and new paint and we will be in business.

Shirlsd previously asked what was cooking, you can see here a variety of vegetables, some locally grown. In one month or so, nearly everything on our grill will be local.


We started installing the radiant tubing on the ceiling. We are using 1/2" Pex-Al-Pex tubing. This is a plastic tubing inner layer, an aluminum center layer and another plastic layer on the outside. The aluminum serves to give stiffness to the tubing, which is good; you bend it and it stays in place. However, working with this material by yourself late at night is not so easy. The tubing likes to go away and we do not have an uncoiler. We wish we did; it would be quite handy. You can see our makeshift attempt at one, but it only 1/2 worked.
Tonight we complete the ceiling tubing installation and perhaps work on the 2" drain in the basement to pick up the laundry room sink and the kitchen sink.