Recycling

April 3 2012

After a long winter of working indoors we have finally turned our attentions back on the outside and the house itself. We were fortunate in the last couple of weeks to get nearly all the roof and floor boards from a turn-of-the-century barn that was coming down about 5 miles from here. For a couple of weeks we hauled boards and pulled the thousands of nails from them so that we can re-use them on the roof and for the attic floor. This week we are trying to get the sill plate in place and the three laminated beams that will hold up the second floor joists. The warm weather here has put us ahead of schedule.  Jim

My brother asked me around February when we would start working on the house. When have we stopped! Things are larger than I imagined. Jim has five or six tasks lined up so I will never get bored. There are of course the main carpentry tasks on the house to complete, minor landscaping, and doing little things to prepare many steps ahead of ourselves. Although I am not a fan of grass; it is a waste of gas and time to mow and a poor use of land, the little we spread to help with erosion has added a nice color to our site.  Sam