Hey, Door!!

So I started work on the door to our hoop house the other day (finally).  I’ve made it out of straw hay, garden fencing, two by fours, and some missing hinges.  Here is a picture of it as I was adding the hay to the interior of door.  

Basically we are sandwiching the hay in between two layers of fencing, the two by fours are mainly for support, and so we can add the hinges so it will swing open.   So I got the door finished and with a little tweaking I got it to fit in the space, I then realized that I didn’t have the hinges.  I couldn’t find them in the house, or in the studio, those are the only two places I usually put things that I need.  So I asked Keturah and she couldn’t find them either.  So here we are three days later, I finally get back into my truck (I’d been taking Keturah’s car to work) to go to work and what do I see sitting in the center console…two new hinges.  Apparently I never brought them into the house in the first place…oh well.  When it finally stops raining here I will get out there and put the hinges on our door, and we will have a functioning hoop house!!

Oh, before I get going here is a sneak peek at the new work I told you about in the last few posts.  I’ve got them all finished and photographed so here is a little taste, I will write a full blog later explaining what they are all about.  Enjoy.

WIP, WIP it Good!!

WIP, short for works in progress and we have some.  Here are the finished pieces from the last blog, they have now been trimmed and turned right side up.  Now they will dry slowly and be fired (hopefully before the end of the month). 

Here are some vases that I threw yesterday

This morning I went back out and put them together, now they are drying a little before I trim them and finalize the shape.  I’m still not sure if I want to round off the bottoms and then build stands for them.  I will probably round off a couple and leave a couple flat.

Also, if you remember back to this post.  I was talking about making some large vases for my mother-in-law, well here they are.  Two vases about two and a half feet tall, with a layer of shino glaze and another layer of a glaze called Woo Brown to Blue.   I really like this combination of glazes; they make some nice colors together.

This weekend I also worked on our hoop house some more, I added a “hallway” to it.  We will be adding a door to the end of it pretty soon (right now it’s all rainy and cold out, so I’m inside).  The other door set up we had was a real hassle to get in and out of, I figure if the door was easier to get into we would go into it more often (to check for bugs and other signs of life).  So check back later to see what our door turns out to be (made of).

Autumn Harvest

We set up our hoop house the other day, but left all the plants inside of it until this weekend, when we planned to go through and cut them back and see what we could find in there.  Well we found quite a lot of stuff, a bunch of green tomatoes, Serrano peppers, bell peppers, Anaheim peppers, and Thai hot peppers, and outside of the hoop house we found a couple good sized eggplants, leeks, and some more cucumbers.  Here is a picture of everything we picked in the last couple days.

You can see all the green tomatoes that we gathered from our tomato jungle on the left, in the middle are cucumbers that are covered by the leeks, front right are a ton of Serrano and Thai hot peppers, and in the back right are our eggplants.  Also in this picture are our pineapple, aloe, and some tomato sprouts.