I’ve been talking to my boss about different schedules, trying to fill gaps in the coverage model.  Then he surprised me with moving back to my old shift, 4pm-1am local time.  Day #2, done.  I’m not quite used to it yet, the last 60-90 minutes are a little hard to keep focus while studying new products.  Few more days, and I’ll be used to it.

What is different, is the amount of time I have during the day.  I’ve been getting up around 9, and out the door around 10.  In the last 2 days, I have gotten a weeks worth of errands run, did laundry, cleaned the garage, worked on the corn crib, mowed the farm, tilled under the garden beds, and regraded the shed floor.  No more ruts or that large scary hole in the back.  All that, and I can casually roast coffee when needed.

The 2nd floor of the crib is opening up, and we just hauled the first wave of sub-floor up a ladder.  That will give us a place to work on the sides, while we pull up some bin floor and frame the end wall for windows.  The piles of construction supplies are dwindling.  I might need to made one more lumber yard run before winter.  I’ll probably park the truck for winter again.

The goal this week, fasten 3 sheets of sub-floor, add a joist at the end wall, add a bit more floor, then frame for the windows.  We’ll probably just plug the holes in the open windows at the very top with plywood this winter.  There is a little bit of exterior siding to do on the bottom of the greenhouse, and we need to sheath and side the inner wall as well.  I’ll need to frame for an inner door from the inside of the crib into the greenhouse.  I’d like to find at least 1 of the doors and get it installed as well.  Well, maybe this is a 2 week long to-do list.

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