New greenhouse

We had a very wet October, and then with the snow we started despairing that we wouldn't get the new greenhouse in before the ground froze. But then sure enough Indian summer started Saturday, and Matt Pettigrew and his excavator were able to come that day do the grading work we needed, and now hope is back. There's still a lot of work ahead, but things are moving forward.

Here's a before shot with one of the big rocks we knew we needed help to move.

Waverly's friend Tommy, plus sister Maggie and mom Tracy came over to watch the big machine at work.

And while we were still all in our winter coats early in the morning, mid morning the sun broke through, for the first time in ages it seemed, and started warming things up. Here's Matt moving the big rock in the sunshine.

Now the space is all nicely smooth and level.

One rock was too huge to even try to move, but it's near the edge of the greenhouse so we will have to just find a way to work around it. The problem is going to be driving the posts in where the rock is -- we'll have to skip a post or something there.

That's a problem for another day though. For now, I'm excited that the new greenhouse is moving forward. Waverly is too. Tomatoes!!