Part 3 of the ag building exterior finishing recap:

Long weekend with both kids at the farm.  Heaven.  It was the last weekend before Dave would leave for college.

Drew and I were the team that was going to finish the wood fill that we’ve been erecting around the top perimeter of the building.  It had all been done except the corners.  We’d avoided them, ignored them, feared them.  Icky measuring.  Offputting work on tall ladder in the sun.  We braved it, measured several times, cut once, and hot diggity!  Would you believe it, we did not have to do any second-cutting, period!

The pictures show our amazing handiwork.  It looked like brilliance to us, but maybe we were just dazzled by the sun.

Dan

[slideshow id=76] Yesterday Drew and I spent the day sheathing.  Good thing he is the guy with the plan.  I don’t need to know much about sheathing, but I’m very good at measuring a spot that needs a piece of wood, pondering about rotations, translations, and other geometric transformations, marking plywood, re-measuring, mentally cutting out the shape from plywood and matching it up to the hole, cutting the actual piece, and ending up with a really good hit rate for the thing actually… Read the rest of this article »

With the seeds in the ground and the timers set, the routine for the next few weeks has turned from planting to building, weeding, and checking on the infrastructure.   This is the sweet spot at our place where the rain has tapered off and the snake desiccating heat has not started. Our son Dave came with us this weekend.  He turned 18 a couple weeks ago and is getting ready to go off to the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in the fall.  We’re going to miss him around the house and on the… Read the rest of this article »