Harvested some peas... last week? Going to plant more later this month for a second harvest. Good thing this is only supplementary and a way to get back into practice with gardening. Well, need to learn how to deal with the kind of weather we're getting these days anyway.

Tomatoes forming on the larger plants. I have too many tomato starts -- going to move a couple into larger pots. Started potatoes this week as well -- yes it's late in the season, small potatoes are still potatoes. Herbs are doing well - should harvest some Lemon Balm this week.

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Work continues on the barn - Lyle removed more of the damaged, mouse-stained wood and put up a plastic sheet we had from another project to keep the smell out of the barn. Going to scrape another one of the horizontal supports today and put more baking soda on it. Getting better.

He also put in some fresh support pieces at the bottom of the section of wall he's working on -- sill plate had rotted. The original cement pour for the floor had been done after some of the inner wall boards were installed (some of what he's removed), so he'll be filling in those gaps with some cement patch.

Organizing of the wood shop continues.

Snowed again last night, but followed by rain sometimes between 5 am and 9 am.

Glad we've been getting work done here before this, though! I'm behind on greenhouse duties but found a lot more books in the past week -- still missing some.

Fitzw had to further disassemble the dining table in order to reassemble it (screws in semi-enclosed angles). We ended up moving it into the barn instead of the space I made for it in the trail. It's very heavy and I didn't want to deal with trying to lift it up that high. So it's in what we're referring to as the weaving stall. I cleaned it as best I could manage and polished it.

Gavin's been tightening up the barn, finding and closing up holes in whatever way is most appropriate. A couple of mouse holes/potential nests we found by cleaning up the weaving staff are now blocked up with steel wool on the inside. Caulk and boards will go on the outside. Lyle put a couple of bottles-worth of wood hardener onto the ends of some of the floor boards. We should replace those boards but that's time and money we don't have right now. So some stabilization, leveling off some of the deeper spots in the boards and then throwing plywood we had from other projects over them, with a few screws to hold them in place and voila! New floor. We have an old area rug we got from the transfer station that we can throw over the whole thing to add a layer of padding for the barn loom.

Gavin's been improving the doors and door ways, as well as running Tyvek on the outside where possible -- under the boards on the east side of the barn, over some of them on the south side. The latter is because time is limited and the boards under the windows there are in really bad shape, so he can't just take them off and put them back on again. Tyvek's pretty amazing stuff - if you're going to use man-made stuff, might as well get something that will last and not break apart and scatter across the yard like regular plastic sheeting does. It's expensive but it does its job well. Next year Gavin can take the Tyvek off, remove the old boards, put the Tyvek back on where it's supposed to be on the wall, and put fresh boards over it. Then the wall will be good for decades.

Gavin also was able to locate the leak issues we're having over the weaving stall from up in the loft. Again, that's going to be a temporary fix of Tyvek on the inside of the roof so that water coming through the roof will run down the Tyvek back outside. Next year will be removing the roofing and repairing the roof.

Um, there's other stuff but I can't remember it right now. Time for breakfast!