Foggy Sunrise, Harvests, Shed Electrical Is Finished Finally - Saturday

Once the sun did break through though it gave one hell of a cool show. The sun rays were outstanding and I got a few different views as I moved around the yard.

I think this is my favorite view with all the individual beams. It didn't last too long but I was quite happy I noticed it and went out for pictures.

I headed out to the garden and picked through the squash and found that the plants are now on the end of life cycle. I managed 15.75 pounds but these are not for sale as a lot of them had molded flowers and once the molds touch the produce it is almost impossible to keep it from attacking in storage.

This is my nemesis and what is making me have to tart ripping the squash plants out today. I am going to cut my losses and maybe keep a few of the more productive and less moldy plants for now.

The basil had gotten WAY out of hand and I had not chopped it in far too long. I hacked the tops off all the plants and tossed it on a grate to haul out of the garden. After weighing it I had 6 pounds of fresh basil that all went to the house to get stripped down to leaves.

There is still basil left in the row mixed in with the marigolds. The end basil is in full flower while the lettuce leaf at the bottom hasn't even popped a flower yet.

The rest of the afternoon was spent busting my ass and my back. After cutting the power to the two lines and pulling the wires from the breaker box I had to do some inventive stuff to get things to work the way I needed them to. Of the 230 foot run of wire from the craft studio to the breaker box I had to feed 200 feet through the wall of the garden shed.

The wire then got pulled through a section of 1" black poly which went okay as it was 200psi poly and slick inside.

The wires run through the shed for the studio and the power input for the shed. I will move the irrigation control line down to the same hole at some point, probably when I shut the irrigation off for the winter.

The studio wire got fed through the slot in the wall and I was able to hide all pretty well.

My doofy ass thought I could fit the wires into 3/4" poly but they got about 2 feet in and stopped tight. I went and grabbed the length of 1" and was able to get them fished through. I had to run the smaller power wire for the sheds which is a section and in order to keep feeding the studio wire through the sleeve I had to tie off the shed wire to keep the sleeve from moving.

I almost forgot but after having to slide the piece of pvc all the way along the wire I got it in place.

So much walking back and forth and up and down and all around the yard. The wire was run from the garden shed and studio down to the tool shed and the next run under the driveway and deck had to be made. I tried to fish the wires through another piece of 1" poly but it just wouldn't make it through. I finally gave up and slit the side of the poly all the way along the length. I found that using the tubing cutting blade like this perfectly slit the tubing. I then had to cram the wires into the tubing and I taped it closed every few feet.

I had just 2 short sections of poly to span between the deck and the shed with the breaker box. The wires then got run up the conduit and through the wall.

The wires are now sleeved under the driveway after being "temporary" for over a decade.

Under each of the gates I have the wire sleeved and now we will have no worries when it comes to snow removal each year.

The terminations went easily and I soon had the power back on to all the sheds and to the craft studio.

I have not had this closed in over a decade. Super stoked to finally have this LONG term project wiped from my list.

As I stood coiling wires I looked down and saw this woolly bear caterpillar munching away on one of the leaves to one of my gooseberry plants. You can see its little feet clasped onto the stem of the leaf and it had just about finished the leaf off.

I got the fire going in the pit and got burgers on to grill. I grabbed 4 pizza peppers and slit them in half then tossed them on the grill.

I spent my time soaking with the theracane and abusing my wrecked muscles in my back. All the wrenching, pulling, pushing, tugging, and extreme exertion of the afternoon has my back just torched. Even after sleeping I am extremely sore today.

But the fun doesn't stop as today I get to start ripping out the squash plants that are doing nothing which will be another good round of abuse on my back.

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