Photos: 2024/07-09

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0702-sandbox Ronan's sandbox was restored to functional with a cover to keep it from being used as a cat litter box.
0703-burger Another batch of OSG black bean and rice burgers.
0706-drain-ditch The drainage ditch along the road was restored to functional a while ago. This is the start of straightening out and widening the ditch.
0706-peaches The peach trees now have plenty of small green peaches.
0707-drain-ditch The neighbor's drain pipe was unearthed which should further help yard drainage after a rain. Straightening the ditch was completed.
0709-deck-framing Ed finally got started on the back deck that Chris was unable to complete due to health problems. It is good to see the framing on this top part of the deck completed.
0710-cp23-motor-mount More slow progress on the CP23 motor mount. The two halves are glued up with part of the outer half rip cut off in an attempt to exopy nuts in place to bolt in the outer horizontal steel bars.
0711-will-gardens These are the three lower tiers of garden near the house and the larger garden on the other side of the house. These are small compared to the farm tiers that are cultivated with a tractor and tillerator (commercial product name).
0712-sandy-garden The climbing arches were put in Sandy's garden and a load of mulch was picked up.
0712-temple-stream These photos are temple stream near the bridge at Cummings Hill Road.
0713-sandy-mulch This is a candid of Sandy shovelling mulch from the truck.
0714-shoe-goo Two pairs of old boating shoes were salvaged using Shoe Goo.
0715-plant-border This is the beginning of an extended plant border around the newly transplanted landscaping and the two peach trees. The intent is to remove the sod from within this area and then add mulch.
0716-compost-pile The compost pile was dug out away from the back side of the garage to avoid contacting the siding and to improve drainage around the garage.
0716-cp23-motor-mount This is the glue up of the mitered border around the CP23 motor mount base block. The steel bars are embedded inside but serve no purpose except perhaps some stiffening because the epoxy was not stiff enough to hold nuts in place with the torque that could be put on them.
0716-deck Ed has made good progress on the back deck so far. The section of deck closest to the house is complete providing access to both doors.
0716-plant-border The border around the landscaping and peach trees has been extended.
0717-erin-at-tumbledown Erin and I hiked Tumbledown Mountain Loop Trail and Brook Trail. The views were great near and at the top. There is a bit of scrambling and climbing on the Loop Trail. We took an unitended detour on the way up that Erin called the "fear of death detour" since there was some going up cracks in the rock with some difficult handholds footholds and some tree roots making it possible to ascend. It took longer than it should to figure out this wasn't the trail.
0719-cp23-mast-support The aft mast support was fixed and modified a bit.
0721-cp23-instr-back The instrument back built by Belmont Boatworks had only room for the power and NMEA cable and no room for the Raynet (ethernet) cable. The instrument back panel had to be modified for this reason alone. The puck was removed and replaced with a larger mitered box with first glue up seen in the last photo. In the process a 12V outlet, USB charging outlet, and ethernet outlet were added.
0721-cp23-motor-mount Fine sanding was done and teak oil has been applied to the motor mount.
0723-cp23-instr-back The mitered box on the back of the modified instrument back has been glued up and is ready for sanding. The sides were intentionally a bit high allowing the box to be sanded flat in the next step.
0723-cp23-motor-mount The motor mount has been dry fit to the transom and four new holes drilled through the transon.
0724-burger This was a tall stack of bun, OSG burger, OSG sauce, lettuce, tomato, and avocado.
0724-cp23-instr-back The instrument mount back is now complete with the exception of wiring. Some glue up will be needed on the inside to support a switch and a terminal bar before wiring can be completed. The terminal bar in one photo is existing and mounted under the bridgedeck part of the cockpit. Some of the connections will come from here.
0725-cp23-instr-back This ia the glue up on the inside of the instrument mount back for wood blocks to support a switch and a terminal bar.
0726-cp23-instr-back The terminal block and switch are now in place on the instrument back. The panel is ready to be wired.
0726-cp23-motor-mount This is the completed motor mount. Some of the stray bedding compound still has to be cleaned from the metal part of the motor mount but the wood and fiberglass have been cleaned with acetone. The bedding compound has not yet set but is beginning to dry.
0727-cp23-instr-back The revised instrument back has been completed. It has not yet been wired as evident by the last photo.
0727-deck Ed made good progress on the part of the deck where the hot tub resides.
0730-wills-farm This is a photo of Will's house and a few photos of his upper gardens.
0806-deck Ed has the main part of the deck framed. It's not yet certain how he plans to tie into the extension that leads to the stair by the hot tub or if he wasn't clear on how that would be done.
0808-deck Ed and Dewey put a step down on the last small bit of deck framing. This avoids having a short step onto the level of the hot tub deck.
0808-landscape Some of the bushes out front got a trim, but not the out of control fast growing bush in front of the living room window.
0808-peaches The two peach trees had lots of fruit and the larger one started dropping peaches even though they were not entirely ripe yet.
0810-peaches The first few buckets of peaches were not ripe enough. It was very time consuming to remove the skins on the peaches as they did not just fall off as they were supposed to after dipping in boiling water and shocking in ice water.
0812-deck Ed and Duane finally got around to putting decking on the framing.
0812-dirt-store If I want a large amount of soil or mulch this is who to go to. I spoke to the driver delivering rocks for the neighbor's revetment.
0813-deck Eventually the entire surface of the deck was completed. Now only stairs and railings remain.
0813-landscape The remaining bushes in the front all got a trim. It was long overdue and looks a lot better now.
0813-osg-casserole This is a mushroom, green bean, and rice casserole from the Oh She Glows Dinner (OSG) cookbook. I find it too light on the green bean and too heavy on the mushroom so will modify it next time. Good but heavy.
0814-deck Ed and Duane are preparing to put the skirts on the deck.
0814-peaches The larger peach tree is wieghed down with fruit which is starting to ripen.
0815-peach-cobbler Rather than canning a batch of peach cobbler was made. Three went to neightbors. The original recipe had too much sugar so adjustments were made.
0818-peaches The quantity of peaches had become enough that the dining room table with some plastic to protect it had to be used to stage peach peeling rather than the kitchen countertop.
0822-broken-forestay After finally getting Remote Access (the CP23) in the water, on first unfurl of the headsail the forestay broke. Belmont Boatworks tried to place the blame on a halyard wrap but that doesn't seem credible.
0824-backhoe-towing This was a really big semi for the flatbed hauling away a really big backhoe used for my neighbor's revetment repair. I took the photo as a joke noting it was the same color as Sandy's car. Jo-Ann, oblivious of the scale, thought Sandy bought a truck.
0826-backhoe I had to take a photo of one of the two backhoes to give Jo-Ann a better idea of the scale of the semi in the prior photo.
0829-odd-carrot These two carrots are obviously in love.
0829-propane-tanks I changed propane companies. The one big tank is Down East Energy's 500 gal tank waiting to be picked up. The other two are 120 gal tanks replacing it, so 240 gal. The new company is the poorly named Dead River Energy.
0830-landscape The bed area for the landscape plantings, which someday will get mulch has been extended all the way to the back of the house. It looks a lot better though more work needs to be done.
0831-starlink This is the upgraded Starlink router install. The UPS has a shelf seen in the first two photos. The next photo is the Starlink power supply. The last three photos are the new place where the Starlink router is mounted. The 15 meter cable that comes with it only goes this far so the hung from the floor joists mounting is needed.
0906-will-appliances These are the power requirement labels on Will's five freezers, his kitchen cooking appliance, and one relatively new dorm sized refrigerator. The main refrigerator is an antique and needs to be replaced soon. We couldn't get a photo of the label on that. This was to assess power draw at Will's house.
0908-sandy-sailing Sandy took a few photos on her phone when we went sailing in September. We sailed out against the wind and tidal current so made slow progress. The rig hadn't been tuned so even slower for that. We made a brief anchor stop and then headed back. The last two photos are near where we anchored. We got back about 5-6 hours after setting sail.
0909-turtle-head-sail These are photos from the short sail to Turtle Head which is a nature preserve at the north end of Isleboro. Return to the mooring was at night in the dark.
0910-turtle-head-view This is a view of Turtle Head from my deck.
0911-seal-island-sail This was a quick sail back to Seal Island and Ram Island, though I turned around shortly before getting there. Sailing to windward against the tide makes for slow progress. Getting home was fast. A cruis ship, probably headed up the Penobscot River to Bangor went through the channel.
0920-vcs-hullers Will has some space at Maine Organic Farmers and Growers (MOFGA) Common Ground Fair and gives lots of talks and sells a few books. This is a demonstration of a roughly 150 year old rice huller being used to hull sunflower seeds. Some kids and teachers from Veazie Community School (VCS) participated in this interactive demonstration and got a workout.
0923-huller-at-wills This is the rice huller used at MOFGA's fair at Will's house getting ready to go back to it's owner, Johny's Seed. They still use this for a few things but loan it each year for use in the fair.
0927-cold-medicine Going into the MOFGA fair Sandy had sinus troubles and Will and Sandra and household were getting over a very bad cold. I think I got both and maybe something else, hopefully not covid. This is one of the home remedies though it needs to be used sparingly. Still sick at time of typing a week later.