With the hot weather this last week comes ripening tomatillos, tomatoes and peppers… And also brings thoughts of energy efficiency. Now that we have been in the house for four months, I thought it would be interesting to put weather data from this spring into our energy model and see how its predictions compare against actual usage. Read the rest of this entry »
The agenda for this weekend was going to be all about painting the risers for our stairs, all of which are just raw MDF at the moment… And then the weather turned beautiful and we got totally distracted by garden work. Read the rest of this entry »
Thanks to the help of a crew of a bunch of really hard working friends and family members, this weekend was wildly productive. Read the rest of this entry »
Today we got a delivery of all our ecoroof plants that we’re going to plant this weekend. Most of what we unloaded from the delivery van were flats of plants in pots… Our licorice ferns, coastal strawberries, camas, Oregon iris… But in terms of area covered, we got 35 pounds of assorted sedum cuttings (image above) that came in a couple of wet boxes. Read the rest of this entry »
Today the last bit of siding was hung, and this weekend Katherine, Katherine’s parents and I hauled a large pile of rocks into gabion baskets to make a garden retaining wall. Read the rest of this entry »
Spring seems to be arriving early in Portland, which means that we will be arriving to Harpoon House just in time to plant our vegetable garden. Read the rest of this entry »
Its been a little while since the last real update and there have been a bunch of little things that have gone on. The most significant right now is that we are dry inside… Not just because of the weather, but the last leak seems to have been taken care of just before Thanksgiving. Read the rest of this entry »
This last week Ecoroofs Everywhere installed our waterproof membranes that will contain our ecoroofs. Its a heat welded membrane (TPO) that can really only be put together in dry weather, and early this week we had a couple of days of decent weather that we were able to capitalize on and get the membrane in place to help keep our house dry. Read the rest of this entry »
