It's Thursday I spent the morning in the attic re-insulating the ducts in the second floor. I need to spend another day doing it but I got them have fixed anyway I used some reflect X foil with the bubblewrap anyway works. The elbows coming out of the Plenum were basically uncovered are poorly covered and so I wrapped the foil around them and then there were places along the metal ducts that needed wrapping also. The whole system is pretty rough I need to work on the Plenum but that will be moving all of the stuff that stored in front of the door where the air conditioner is.

This morning I checked the Burr Oak and it's doing fine but none of the cover crop that I planted in the area around it is coming up there still bits of Bermuda grass training in through but I keep pulling those I may just give up and mulch the whole thing and not try to cover crop the Baroque is doing very very well and I'll put a link to the YouTube maybe tomorrow. I went out to the compost this morning and found that we've got soldier flies and one of the compost piles which is kind of neat there pretty active style I went out got more water and re-watered all three compost piles. I really need to filter the oldest one just not sure where I'm going to put the material. First they need to make some containers for all the soil is good to come out of there.  Maybe tomorrow morning first thing I will cut up one of the blue barrels and that will give me containers for the dirt which also means I should cut up the self watering system for the bottom of it too much work.

The footlockers now have cages on top of them and the cover crop particularly the Cayeuse oats are doing really well I think it's crowding out anything else. I looked down to see if any of the chard head seedlings that I put in there had made it but I think it just couldn't compete for sunlight there's plenty of water but not quite enough sunlight for some of the smaller crops. The second footlocker with the charcoal in it seems to be doing the best.

The lavender is doing very well or at least hasn't died, it's kind of hard to tell... lavender it just sits there most of the time. I finished up a video on the lavender and the Imagine farm we visited just so everybody would realize that lavender really don't need anything that looks like a decent garden soil. I'm using the east Burr Oak flat planer.  That oak made it so I pulled it out and dug down 3 inches and saved all the dirt and then replaced it with the funkiest dirt I could find from around the property you know something that I hadn't put any cover crops and or anything like that it's a mixture of white red clay in just everything anyway it looks like everything in the video and we'll see if that makes it. There are three lavenders in this small island and they're just sitting there they don't look like the gena died in Outlook like you can thrive I'm just hoping that they get enough sunlight in that their under the trees And really only get morning sun from the east and afternoon sun from the West.
 Here's the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJGtIKjn8Ik&list=UUTCrZkBXtSllBEFGdNrsTOg&feature=share

This weekend where going to Houston and I probably won't get anything done around the house. Projects I'm still working on include the ballot of the Burr Oak tree and I need to write up how I fixed the exit from the driveway to the street I added a bunch of stone from Alex's place and interspersed it with walkpost and rye seed in the rye seed is already started up. I put down a mix of walk post and rye seed whenever I pull up stick a bar and then rub that in to the ground where I pulled the stickabur out it's working out pretty well in the Rye won't last very long but at least I won't get any stickaburrs. The Rye has a natural herbicide that keeps other plants from germinating.