Good morning.
Today I'd like to show you a couple of things I'm working on. Our portal, or porch, had been threatening to fall down for years, so I finally rebuilt it.
This is a detail of one of the Bristlecone pine posts supporting it, posts that were cut from long-weathered standing dead trees up over 11,000 feet in the Sangre de Cristo mountains nearby.
(I need that coding secret to reduce the size.) More over the fold.
Here's the overall view:
This is strictly minimalist pragmatic construction, with the posts providing a little sex appeal. I'll do the floor with local flagstone paving.
Here's a view of how the post supports the beam:
Over on the other side of the house, between the house and the shop, I've built this little greenhouse, or "hoop house", basicly a tent to capture the heat, which will be absorbed by the adobe walls and will keep the growing area from freezing. The "hoops" are 3/4 inch PVC plumbing pipe, fastened at the top to the structure of the shop, and poked into the ground at the bottom.
I'm figuring I can get away with this lightweight a frame because the courtyard is sheltered from the wind, which would love to pick this thing up and sail it away to Texas. I've got maybe $150 into the materials. The poly fim will probably have to be replaced in two years, but that's about 40 bucks and a day of work to replace.
The peafowl are exploring the addition to their landscape...
The peafowl, Alice and Valantin, have wandered in on their own from who knows where, and have settled in this past couple of months; they mooch off the chickens' food, preen and strut, and have the most outrageous calls. These are quite young, not yet fully mature, and we are hoping they will have the sense to come into the shelter we're providing for them, as it is getting too cold for them to continue roosting in the cottonwoods. Peafowl really fly, which is a spectacular sight.
Anyway, the shop is open for your input and discussion and I'll be glad to answer any questions you have about the above, or about something you may have to work on yourself.
Welcome aboard.