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We have two compressors, too. Mine (more modern) is vastly more quiet than the big - portable only on a dolly - compressor that Beau drags around. I can hear that thing in the kitchen, which is the furthest I can get from his workshop.

"And Diana, you'll be happy to hear that I completely cleaned up from this project and even went a little further to move something I was tripping over to the travel trailer, as excruciating as that all was, like a bad dream to me now;) "

Proud of ya! :)

After making a mess and cleaning up the kitchen yesterday, I am all set up to can my 55-gallon drum of V-8 Juice this morning. :) Not quite THAT much, but I wanted to be done with it, so I made more than I normally do at a time. I've got pears and apples to deal with, next. Grapes are TINY this season from too much rain, which makes absolutely no sense, but it is what it is.

When that's done, Ill be mowing, too. And dog/barn chores since Beau got his BELOVED skid steer back from repair and he's off Mowing For Dollars, all day.

And we're OFF! :)

I ‘may’ have found green beans at a local market. There are pictures of bushel baskets with various varieties of green beans, but no price per pound visible. I am going to check them out after they open at 11:00 this morning ... fingers crossed I have better luck than with the peaches!

We had two ‘gully washer’ downpours yesterday & one the day before. No water on the floor from the roof leak, but the ceiling is looking worse. Hopefully, one of the two roofs ahead of us got done this week. The local weather met is calling for more glorious pre-fall low humidity/cool weather for the last week in August or thereabouts so maybe the roofer will have good weather for our project.

The green beans were picked over & didn’t look so good. Additionally, they have a lot of ‘curl’ so they won’t fit nicely into a pint jar. I give up on dilly beans!

I have a 5-bean salad recipe from the Silver Palate Chefs and have made it before - very tasty & nothing like the jarred/canned bean salad you get in the store. I think that is what I’ll make for a cold side dish that has a fresh taste & a little tang to it (red wine vinegar, olive oil, Dijon, garlic, lemon zest).

This is my new noise maker sitting in it's new temporary home, the mini-greenhouse I was using for a seed tray rack. Always got too warm on the top shelves even without the plastic cover. Heat from the stacked LED lights. Could have spread the shelves out but then I would have had to kneel to look at bottom plants and stand on something to do anything on the top shelf other than peak at it. One long shelf will be much better all around.

Grabbed some shelf brackets after work today for the long shelf to put my seed trays in one row, end to end, and grabbed shorter brackets to hang the lights above them. Three of the shorter brackets and I'll run a furring strip or something across them to hang the lights from.

Need to get a few more of these ratchet rope gadgets. Pull the rope to raise, push a lever to lower. I've been messing around with little chain and S hooks which was a real pain with the stacked shelves. I've got two types and one lowers easier than the other so I'll go back through my ebay purchase history and grab more. IIRC they were the cheaper ones too. Little thinner cord but a 2' LED light weighs nothing.

Sun is on the shed right now but once it's down past the trees, I'll head back there and see about putting shelves up. I think I've come up with a simple design to hang shelves from the frame of the tunnel too. Custom shelf bracket that I could set tools/parts on and be able to move it with me. Thought of it while thinking about wiring and other work on the tunnel but I could also use them as seed tray shelves. Put another layer of plastic on inside of frame behind the seed trays. Chunk of shade cloth for a few days of hardening off. Could get trays out of the shed quick.

I grabbed a 50' air hose yesterday but forgot quick connect ends so I grabbed them today and will put those on too. Then the old leaky hose can come up here for the old compressor. I can shorten one end by a foot and get rid of the biggest leak. Need a new one but at over $40, the second one can wait. All I need up here is to fill a tire with a slow leak on occasion etc.

I don't know how the winery grape growers around here are doing this year. I used to drive by a few one my way to the old job and might have seen some indication.