Yes, I'm using most of those things. Cranberry pills and juice, vitamin C, estrogen cream, they all help for awhile but then I get another one. This has been going on for about 5 years and I'm pretty sick of it. Now, I am ordered to go at least every 2 hours whether I think I need to or not and to drink all this water. All the water takes care of the first one for sure.
This last week nothing much has happened on the roof. We are waiting for the fiberglass earthboxes and the light fixtures. Instead, they installed a candelabra that I designed. I found 6 old glass light globes in antique stores and had the iron work made to hold them. When we first put it up we decided it was too high to be effective so they had some more chain cut and painted and last week they lowered it. This old house has all kinds of weird hardware and luckily there was an old iron hook for a pulley on the beam in the hallway. Where my pond is used to be an open courtyard when the house was connected to the house next door. My guess is that they used a hook and pulley to lower feed and stuff for the animals. I thought I'd put some pics of that process in here to keep you entertained
Here one of the guys is measuring where it is to see how much chain they need to add.
It's lowered on the hook with a rope.
and an after pic of the new height. I like it a lot, I'm kind of proud that I came up with the idea.
I have started 'seasoning' the new pond, adding a couple liters of muriatic acid every few days to leech and cure the concrete and get the PH down a little.
Mimi spent Sunday putting together the composter we got 3 or 4 months ago. We left it in the box since the roof work was about to start. It's pretty cool, hopefully it will work better than the old plastic garbage cans I was using. The main problem is where to put it that it won't be in the way and yet will still be easily available.
