This morning it was obvious the sauerkraut was fermenting so I moved the jars down to the basement. When it's been 92 up here it's been 77 down there. I think I read 65-75 is good. I do want to look into contrapting some air lock system for future if the basement is my only space cool enough. There's a lot of opinions out there whether or not to air lock- but no good science that I've found. Later I went ahead and picked the melon -I'll give it a few days before I cut it open. This evening I started making a hanging lampshade for the ceiling light in the closet nook area. I started with a lid from a plastic protein powder container.