Doing much better this morning, after incredible stiffness last night: now we get to wrestle a significantly heavy plastic and cloth cover onto the frame, which stands way over our head. It is one piece, we think. If it has to slip down like a sock onto a foot, this is not going to be a cinch. But there are two doors, one on the front peaked end, one down the axis at the back. And if the doors do not include a threshold, this will be easier.
Stepstools and a plan are a must here, however.
The skin will help stabilize the frame. I want to get this done before weather sets in. And in the course of cleaning up the house, I’d like the plants we’ve been wintering over to go outside.
We have a nice shelf unit from the little greenhouse that baked and ripped. It’s about like a wire bookshelf, and will fit nicely somewhere.
And I may make a trek to the hardware to buy rope if the forecast says wind. That cover is going to be about as big as a boat sail, and I do not intend our new greenhouse to end up either bare or in Oz.
Flat straps might work better than ropes.
Those big furniture moving straps are great. You can sometimes find them at army surplus stores.
The thing has a hide now…and typically, the instructions are silent on the design feature that I called iffy: a hole just the size of the wingbolt, 1/3″ from the end of each pipe. Screw into same? Or let the pipe slide to the end of the socket, then use the wingbolt to tighten same?
We, at some trouble, used the holes. Now we think perhaps those were holes to hang the pipe while spraying powdercoat…the skin doesn’t fit at that extension. So………we loosen all the bolts, settle the skin, then smite the thing with a rubber mallet on the joints to get it to shrink. It did, pretty well. So we left it stretched, doors both zipped, and with the bolts loose in the theory that a little heat and relaxation on the skin and a little wind-wobble (forecast today is 7-9 mph) will help, and it may improve. We’ll see how it settles before we tighten the bolts, and we found, yes, some corner loops for rope stays. OTOH—I may go for the rocks and ropes simply because I have tripped over too many tent ropes in my youth and favor other methods if I can get them…thanks for the strap suggestion!
The finger from yesterday is now resembling a blueberry next the palm; nasty swelling. I think we shall shortly proceed to olive. Curiously it doesn’t hurt, but it gives Jane the willies.
And we are skipping the gym again today: we have had quite a wrestle with that covering. I should get a pic—especially the swearing stage when we decided to pull it on front to back and were trying to find the center peak,—but we forgot. We’ll get one as we go.
Interesting (a bit long) follow-up on the “How the Earth and Sun really move” post:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/04/vortex_motion_viral_video_showing_sun_s_motion_through_galaxy_is_wrong.html
quick summary: “However, there’s a problem with it: It’s wrong. And not just superficially; it’s deeply wrong, based on a very wrong premise. While there are some useful visualizations in it, I caution people to take it with a galaxy-sized grain of salt.”
Orbits over time might be described more like a squashed, tilted Slinky stretched out, and the Sun’s position being a stick run up the middle. Sometimes the planet is in ‘front’ of the Sun’s path, sometimes it lags. There are sufficient irregularities that I can *just* visualize it, but the orbital mechanics are beyond me.
I had a program that works with asteroids—had thousands. Alas, it went to that great Win3 graveyard in the sky…
I know what you mean. Mind-boggling to figure the numbers.
I absolutely agree with the objection and thank you for finding this statement all in one spot (I’ve seen several in bits and pieces.) But imho Sadhu is not AS mentally misleading as the flat circular model. I agree about the solar motion, with reservations: I’m not sure the totally up and down guys have it right; I agree deeply about the sun leading that far. I think the important part is getting mentally out of the flat plane reference, which is not that much advanced since the mediaeval model. I think astronomy for the public needs to take advantage of computer abilities and redraw the map they’re teaching kids: the notion of a clockwork, gears-driven system is unchanged since we popped Earth out of the center and put the sun in.
I never know where to go with off topic subjects. I am starting to reread the Foreigner series in anticipation of the new addition, and would like to add to the Who’s Who list. Are we supposed to be able to click on the side bar to add info? If so it is not working. Also what is the difference between list 1 & 2?
Also at one point you asked for discrepancies so you could fix them for e-books, are you still interested? I will say that the only thing that jumped out was “Deceiver” which had multiple problems. You may have already noted them, in which case I won’t bother you.
Is there a better place on site to go with questions and comments such as these?
Actually not, because we will otherwise miss them.
You can email me the list of ‘Deceiver’ problems and I’ll forward it to DAW. I think they’ve fixed some.
Re the links on the side, does swipe and paste work or do I need to change those? I’ve got a brain like a sieve when I’m in some stages of plotting, as I am now. Remind me, friends!
kerryk, the last ‘button’ at the top of this blog (at the right of the bottom row), Ongoing projects, contains working links to both the wiki and the database. The links in the right-hand column don’t work.
I haven’t checked the wiki recently; most people seem to be adding to the database. Instructions on how to log in there are also on the Ongoing Projects page.
On Jane Fancher’s blog, linked to the left, is a special page for mentioning errors in the ebooks published by Closed Circle, but for errors in the printed books and the Foreigner series you’d probably best send your list to the publisher, as they’re the ones who could correct things in a new print-run. Mail and email addresses for them can be found online.
Obviously, CJ knows best. Sorry for cross-posting, and not looking up the DAW addresses – I’m in bed with flu and not at all clearheaded (can one say ‘very woolly-headed’ in English?).
I’ve seen other authors get a bit antsy on their blogs at people sending them corrections for newly printed books, instead of their publishers, which is why I jumped in unnecessarily. Sorry!
I’ll get back to sleep now before I commit more foolishness online with my stuffed-up head. Being sick is just so boring!
I know whereof you speak. One of our people just came back to work after a rampaging sinus infection. She said her head felt like someone was using it for a very nasty jello mold.
Hanneke, you’re a 24 caret sweetheart. NO problem!
I’ve just bought some fish done up in salt crystals! *giggling* Okay, it’s actually only dried salt cod and not a savory snack, but I’ve wanted to try something like it ever since I read about it in the Chanur series. My husband thought I was insane when he carried in the box from the UPS truck. Is it my fault that I had to buy 18 pounds of it to get free shipping? *mock innocent look*
OMG!
OMG is right! Observing on a fishing boat you run into some different ideas… we had Norwegians in the crew on one boat, and they’d grab a cod, fillet it but leave the tail on so there were two fillets hanging from a tail, salt the daylights out of it and just hang the fillets in any dry corner they could find. There was one stairwell/ladder coming out of the engine room through the fish factory and up to the deck that they festooned with fillets on a regular basis, I always had to duck when I was going up to watch a haul-back. This was extra-curricular fish, not ‘official,’ that they’d snack on. It wasn’t bad, but I can’t imagine 18 POUNDS of it! That’s a lot of salt cod, unless you like fish jerky!
Then there was the pot in the small dining room everyone knew you just did NOT look in. There was always a giant cod head looking back… apparently the Japanese like a never-ending fish-head stew… (shudder)… I think that pot got washed out twice in three months, but it was never empty except when it was being washed.
@slink…..eighteen pounds?! Well it’s salt cod so it does keep!
When I set up my canopy for shows I use sandbags or something filled with wet sand (large cat litter jugs)or PV pipe filled with cement. They get tied like a tent line but sit next to the tent poles…..two to each corner. Most craft venues don’t allow lines and pegs due to safety and insurance. Also be sure that rain won’t collect in your roof at the eave line. Swim noodles can solve the problem. This is my own particular paranoia, but I’ve seen the damage rain and wind can do. Speaking of which, we are expecting another major storm.
Actually, if it’s already boned, you can grate it over rice or pasta like the Japanese do…