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What a gorgeous fireplace. I love it.

Is this roof fixed now?

not until the weather gets warm enough that it can be repaired. too cold and caulk/sealer won't work and also if there is snow on the roof i don't want anyone up there. at most what will happen this winter is getting it tarped better so we don't have any more leaks until it gets repaired.
 

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well, surprised this morning, the roofing people called and said they would come out and take a look and they did.

it's 22F and windy out but they went up there and took off the covers i had put down and then they looked around and then recaulked the flashing they had installed some years ago. he said the caulk they used is fine to apply down to 0F. they had to warm up a few times and warm up the caulk but they got it done.

so the bricks and pavers i put up there are now stacked up on top and they can stay there until next spring. hopefully this will be the last of the leaks. they left a pretty big new tarp with me to put down if it does leak and the bricks are already up there so we'll see how it goes.
 

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today i may have finished cleaning up the last of the beans i sorted. i had three partial quart containers of Purple Dove beans that had some stickers still on them that needed to be removed, so while i was watching something else i was also laying here and removing stickers. stickers are just a bit of the bean pod connection stuff to the hylum. there is a technical name that i keep forgetting...

if you look up hilum it refers you to ovaries and gets very detailed. i mean eye-glazed-over level details. which i would love to memorize sometime before i croak, but there's a very good chance my brain will decline faster than it stores new memories before i reach that point. we shall, errrr, see...

this is nice and more succinct: "Plant anatomy is that field in botany that needs to cut into plants to be able to study its subject, as opposed to "plant morphology" (see category : Plant morphology) that can study its subject without resorting to a knife." but it does not address the issue i have in my pea brain...

anyways, back to the topic at hand. i cleaned up all three of those containers of stickers and thus the total amount of all three was combined into one single quart of Purple Dove beans that can then be combined back with all my other PD beans that will then mostly be eaten by us and other people eventually.

some of those beans will be set aside for seed samples and sharing. i have gobs of samples i already made up for previous seed swaps that have not been used up. i'm thinking i may just leave them alone for now and think more about that, but that is then another different topic which i won't be writing about tooon ite.

the point though (like the one on my head :) ) is that i may actually get more done tomorrow on combining all these samples. i have no big chores lined up and it is too cold to be outside for any reason - i do have projects i'm poking at but nothing is super pressing with those and it is good for me to take a bit of time to ponder some aspects of them anyways so a day off from them is quite ok. yes, i'm not at all being succinct here am i? :) but it is nice to be at this point at last. :)
 

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yay! at last i was able to get some pictures taken after sorting and combining some beans. i still have a lot more to do, but these are the start.


these are a red/pink patterned Painted Pony outcross

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a similar bean, but no dark eye ring.

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and yet another Painted Pony outcross.

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this bean really surprised me in the color is very dark green and then patterned with black. how that came about as a cross with Painted Pony i don't really know, but i'd not seen anything like it before.

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four similar beans that are likely children of Lavender. the colors have been interesting coming from these Lavender outcrosses.

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grays, blues, green shades of color. more Lavender children.


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Red and green real faint on this selection, yes, another likely Lavender child.

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for these they might have been children of Vermont Appaloosa and some other bean.

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a more dark selection, which might be the same bean.

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in the middle of getting the pictures off my camera my USB cable decided to give up again, i'd already pulled it apart and fixed it a few times, but this time when i pulled it out of the computer a part of the plug remained in the computer and the rest of the wires pulled out. i tried again to get it put back together and to work but that didn't.

so using the now shorter keyboard cord i looked up a few things on USB cables and just decided to do surgery. i got my small solder iron out (i used it as a teenager working on putting together some small circuit boards for my model railroad engine controls, this was very advanced back then as you could control up to 64 engines at once running on the same power rails so you didn't have to isolate each section - i got two of them working and it was fun times. alas, i had to go away to college before i finished the railroad in the basement.) and soldered a new part of another cable on the end of the one that broke. taped it all back together and we're all set with even a longer cord (another good thing :) ).
 
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