It's been a little while since I blogged anything here. We've been awfully busy organizing, throwing away, deciding what to give away, what to sell on eBay, what to sell in a garage sale this spring. Someone wrote a book on it and called it putting your house on a diet.

What else? Let's see... I built Josh a wooden crane; I built Michiko a washtub bass. The compost pile is finally doing its thing, too - heating up rather nicely.

It occured to me a few weeks ago that all our veggies are coing in to us as seeds. That includes the traditionally difficult seeds such as tomatoes, and peppers. I think I have solved the problem without too much expense - I built a seed stand. I'll take a couple of photos and put them up here shortly. Basically, it is a 4-foot wide set of shelves. There are two flourscent fixtures, each with two plant lights, and some of those seed heating pads you can get from Park Seeds. Two stardard-sized seed flats (about 9" by 20") will fit nicely on each shelf, so I can get four flats there.

I had almost all the wood, stain and hardware down in the garage already, but I had to buy the lights, fixtures and the heating pads. Like most everything I build, I see on hindsight what I would change if I were to do it again. Perhaps I could do a complete set of instructions, complete with "lessons learned"!

Better go...it's late!