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It’s Monday already. We have a few things planned today if the weather permits.

Advocatus Diaboli is supposed to come over and rehearse. A few neighbors are supposed to come and work on a project, which can be done as long as it doesn’t get windy.

I’m still working on my crochet project. I was able to figure out a way to make 2 at once. I probably been done with 2 yesterday, but idk why I kept screwing up and had to keep restarting.

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We had a nice warm, sunny, very little wind Saturday.

Which made an almost perfect day to put the roof on the hut. We had purchased the Hut on the market place, the builder had reporpused corgated tin. The tin had screw holes that leaked. Inside the hut is a compost toilet.

We had a camper give us some  commercial refrigerator sealant tubes that we used to fill the holes.

After sealing the holes, we placed a sheet of osb over the tin.

While we worked, the dogs hung outside with us, did some sun bathing, and watched.

Brent is attaches the OSB, getting the roof ready for the next step.

The little solar panel attached to the hut is for a small charging station and runs the lights inside.

A neighbor had some extra rubber roofing that we sealed with the refrigerator sealant.

While putting the rubber roof, after putting the sealant on it, a gust of wind hit, and we found out that sealant gets stringy and  goes all over.

We all ended up getting covered in the sealant…

But we did get it finished and headed into town for a shower.

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It’s Saturday, and the temps are 25 outside, 48 inside.

I spent most of yesterday crocheting Advocatus Diaboli commissioned pieces, I finished up the black and purple stuffy.. Now I’m going to do a few small ones before finishing up 2 bigger ones.

Brent had spent the day helping a neighbor haul a few towers that the neighbor plans yo use to make a wind mill.

We had looked into wind turbines.. The issue is (from out understanding) that they are rated for 30 mph winds, but not a constant 30. We can get days of 30 mph with gusts of 50 or more. So we decided against doing it. We hope that it works for this neighbor. If it does, it may be something we do for ourselves.

We have had a few other neighbors try different wind turbines, but they didn’t last long. Fingers crossed 🤞 it works

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Woke up this morning, and it was cold! It was 27 outside, 39 inside. Usually, it isn’t that cold inside,  but we didn’t turn on the heat last night, so probably why.

The heat is on now, and we are warming up. If you had seen the video yesterday, you saw that we got most of the Hut finished.  We do need to seal the roof, but it has to be a non windy, warm day to seal.

I’m not sure yet what today’s plans are. I do know I’ll be working on Advocatus Diaboli merch, he had asked me to make. I’m enjoying doing it, but my hands aren’t.  I’ve almost got the 3rd (including the example one) done. I really like the one I’m making now. It’s black and dark purple!  It’s the second image, I still need to make the body and assemble.

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Thursday, January 8th, 64 degrees and windy. We got tired of waiting for a nice day and decided to work on the “Hut.” We had purchased this little building off the Market for an outdoor toilet with a compost toilet.

The person who built it with previously used corgated metal.  Which means it has screw holes. Every time it’d get windy, you could feel the wind come right through.  Also, when we get snow or a heavy rain, it leaks.

We had been waiting for a nice non windy day, but today we gave up waiting and finished the inside. We weren’t able to redo the roof, but we plan to do it when it’s not as windy.

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