This is our glasshouse greenhouse looking out from inside this morning at -4.
Plants are fine.
I went in to photograph some of the ice patterns .. which are very neat!
Alice
Glasshouse at -4f
I got up in the middle of the night to check my porch. It was 32! I got DH out of bed to get another heater (he's a peach). This is the 2nd time it has got that cold. We have 2 layers of plastic 6-12" apart & a styrofoam panel layer in between. The foam was to keep the plastic from whipping back & forth & blowing loose again when we had 40-50 mph winds. When the wind is still, it is not too bad with a single oil-filled heater.
Linda
Like delicate white fern fronds. Beautiful!
I wish it was 32 here instead it is 7 below zero, it was 10 below Thursday, the coldest we have had in 14 years. The windows are pretty but i would much rather have SUN BEAMS LOL
Those ice patterns are beautiful but if it ever gets to -4 here I'm out of business.We have lows down to 10 degrees here on rare occasions and my gh has to have supplemental heat on those nights.The regular,commercial,gh heater can't keep up and it was supposedly sized to fit the gh.So far the lowest this winter has been +18.I realize that's beach weather to some of you.
Our commercial heaters did not keep up even with supplemental heat in the first cold we had later December. Temps went to about 0º but the high winds made temps much lower. On the wind end, I lost just about everything in first 1/3 of that greenhouse, which is a Clearspan 34' x 96'. Fortunately, most of the good plants were in the warmer part of that greenhouse and in the glasshouse. It's been a rough winter here, but seems it's been a rough winter all over.
Not just me. ha
Oh Alice, that's rough - losing a third. The ice patterns are beautiful. Mother nature can be both beautiful and cruel at times. Hope the rest of the winter is better.
OH Alice.. good you have caught the temperature drop this time.... that earlier bout that took so many was the wake up call.. sorry to hear it was so bad though.. it has been unusually cold about everywhere indeed..
the frost patterns remind me of the old time glass patterns of what they called glue chip glass.. they would frost glass to roughen it up some.. then paint the old hide glue on the frosting which allowed the glue some grip on the glass.. then as the glue would harden and shrink.. it would pull and fracture the glass in a flat plane.. causing the same fern / frosted look you have there.. more or less glue changed the patterning... so they got a variety of beautiful.. glass.. it's beautiful there though.. in frost.... your air temps will be lower than the soil.. at first.. I wish that everything you are hopeful of in your great work makes it just fine..
Beach wether..indeed.. lots were swimming in our NYC harbor last week at those 18* temps... glad they all made it so well also....
All the best there Alice..for the second 1/2 of the winter..
as long as you're still finding the beauty you're doing great..
Thanks for that info, Gordon :-)
I didn't know that about frosted glass. I might try that .. lol
I have some glass panels can work with.
I still have one old frosted panel from the original glasshouse. I will take another look at today in a new light based on your information :-)
I am a good "glass" person. I like making things with stained glass chips and recycled.
I like old stained glass and have several windows.
I am fortunate to live where many antiques are still available, and also near Youghiogheny Glass (http://www.youghioghenyglass.com/) where this girl usually has to be dragged out to leave ..lol We finished the did entry to the glasshouse in their glass panels.
I had a fun time that day deciding colours.
I have been out early morning before the sun melts the ice to shoot photos of the frosts.
Some are very neat and really do look like ferns, too :-)
I have a lemon ripening I saw yesterday. Going to try for a photo of that against the frost in morning if cold enough. ha
Here, for as long as I can remember a bunch of older guys go swimming in the Mon (Monongahela River) to prove their stamina. I was never tempted to join them. ha
Well...Alice... here's hoping it gets as cold as you'd like it ... for your frost photos... getting the right hide glue [ Hide glue was made from fresh animal skins.. often rabbit.. and boilded down to the sticky adheasive ] might be the more difficult part of making your own glue chip glass.. then the sand blasting to give it some tooth for the glue to work.. you'll have to experiment to find the right ammount of hide glue to use to get the flaking paterns you desire.....
I was studying process a while back.. just in buying it for a project... here's a photo of some I used to glaze the 15 light door into the bathroom here....pictures of the glass can be done at 81*F as I'm running inside the building today..MMMMMMMM no pleading for cold here..
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I love the glue chip glass myself... although an antique it doesn't have to be used in a quaint setting.. The glue chip glass was a little clear for a bathroom door so I put an additional chemical etching liquid on the glue chip to give the opaque frosting in the picture..
I moved in here and tore everything there out.. from the ceiling joists [ yes trashey tin ceiling went also had to raise the ceiling 36" ] down to the floor.. which I covered in new Brazilian Cherry .. I did save two 15 light doors which I refinished. back to wood..and a color change to something closer to my American cherry trim through out.. and edgeing the glass in the door..
To keep on topic.. my brugs love to winter over on the Cherry.. but the closer to the lights they can get the better they like it.. this is the back 1/2... propagation and the front gardens are behind in this photo..
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FWIW hide glue can be obtained from luthiers supply houses.It's still used in quality stringed instruments.
here you go.. these should get you glueing ..poping glass...and shattering the surfacce of your glass into ferns..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_glue
http://woodworker.com/cgi-bin/FULLPRES.exe?PARTNUM=849-755&gclid=CMTT0vrcnZgCFQyfnAodzW_jmQ
http://www.bjorn.net/
Thank you, Gordon.
Your home is very beautiful :-) Thanks for the photos.
Thanks for the links, also.
I am in midst of restoring an 1893 home. A lot of work, but fun too.
I've been able to replace 4 of the interior ransoms so far with the old stained glass transoms.
I like the glass doors like your's a lot and would work very nice in some places for me, also.
Thanks again :-)
Alice
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Oh I love stained glass and frosted glass.. someday when I can quit working I am going to take a class.. my brugs are very happy right now in the basement.. I love the lighting in your house where the Brugs are, Gordon, here in Kansas it is below freezing atm... I went swimming alot at the beaches when I lived in Florida in January a long time ago.. gosh .. the weather sure has changed in the past 30 years!
Alice I like the photo of that frost.. would make a great desktop!
Alice, your glass ice pattern photo is beautiful. Thanks for posting!
Thanks cannagirl and joeswife :-)
Here is another that is just awesome. ha
I have a few more also when a moment I will go look and post.
Thanks again :-)
Alice
That is really pretty, Alice. It would be so much fun spending time in your warm greenhouse.
Alice
that a Beautiful pic, Gorden your pic's of your home is great love the door.
Elizabeth
I didn't get pretty frosted glass, I got a half inch of ice covering everything & my yard flag was frozen into a solid sheet. No pictures, it was sleeting too.
Linda
Alice that is wonderful! Aww poor Linda, I feel your pain, sending a blankie to you.. Debra
I sympathize with you, Linda. Sorry about that flag ..lol
It's another winter storm here today with winds and snow.
Even though everything is beautifully white and frosty, its been a rough winter here. The worst I can remember, really.
'Jesse Noel' is blooming today though, so not all is winter ..lol
Took a few more frosty pane pix this morning, but my camera died in the cold wind )-; But here are two from the outside last week.
And two from the inside on another day.
Some of the smaller brugs in sillouette :-)
I have been catching up on my reading here and can't believe a comment Gordon made. "trashy Tin Ceiling" If you only knew what I have paid to replace the tim ceilings in my house. LOL, proves the theory, one mans junk is anothers treasure.
Oh..Brenda... My tin ceiling was trashy by virtue of it's codition.. rather than style.. and I got to raise it up 4 feet taller.. than the low 8 foot ceiling height convention in effect... they used the 4' air pocket for a poor insulation pocket for the very hot roof.. above .. I ran batt insulation between the joists.. and across underneath... hung a metal framork.. with the same slope of the roof above.. and installed a new plaster ceiling on it.. I could have then run tin again... but enough already.. time to develop a garden..as there wasn't enough older detailing to accent this.. I know you understand trashy tin... as you replaced yours..
I 've run tin for clients..and the available tin is just like to the low-mid range tin available then.. but it does continue an old look very well... sorry to fire you up there...
I have copper now, it is beautiful. But sell many houses here in NNy with tin ceilings, and love them.