Early spring. I just bought a small piece of property, an extension of Huerta 11. The fencing had to be redone. The Escuela Agricola Lipingue helped us out. In one sunny afternoon we did the whole 200 meters.

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Finally we get to the point that the greenhouse can be used. Not a minute too late. Although we are in the middle of winter here, the sun is shining and the temperature is very agreeable inside the greenhouse. I think the plants will like it, as we liked the champain for the official opening…

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After the sixth day, it is now the xth day of building the greenhouse. The small details took a lot of time, but finally the inner structure is ready, now I only have to remove the tools, clamp the boards and make the floor a bit better and…

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The framework is done, the only thing left is the cover and the interior…

Most precise job is cutting the rafters to fit

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Almost there with the outside structure. Still some more rafters to cut and place and then we can concentrate on how to mount the plastic and the earth floor and the interior of the greenhouse…

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Frosty in the morning and a bit of sun in the afternoon. Very nice weather to work, so I did. More work done then can be seen in the picture…

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And that is exactly what I did.

Slow progress?

I’m not too unhappy about it. Switching between designing, sanding, oiling, sawing and putting the pieces together without catastrophic mistakes…it could have been worse.

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Once more, fighting the dimensions of the pic to show up. Right now R. Felty lay-out.

This is a small sleeping creature that probably in spring (I Live in Chile, it is winter right now) starts waking up and doing things…

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Between the rain showers there was just enough time not to get wet and make the foundations of the Greenhouse.

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