the Barn. Part V.
January 2, 2012
Did you know that while trying to find the center of something, that if two sets of objects are both “off” by a half inch both in the same direction that it magically becomes centered again??!
Project Barn 2011 was becoming tiring… understatement of the year.
Working outdoors in December meant it was usually either just chilly and really wet or it was plain out cold and frozen… it really can be disheartening. Working as hard as we are and stuggling with a constant battle against soaking wet days or freezing cold days can be exhausting… mind and body.
On day 38 I wandered for five minutes around the barn site searching for my hammer. Sighing with frustration I jammed my hands in my large coat pockets to warm them up and found where I’d put my hammer. The coat pocket is large enough to accomidate the hammer head and the rest of the hammer sticks up out of the pocket and so I have no idea how I forgot it was there, it bumps my arm any time I try to bend or move much… that’s how mentally blocked out we were getting.
And then we got a warm snap. The 46 degrees, balmy, southern breezey days we got, a few in a row. It lifted the spirit a bit and the work ethic, although I was spending the same amount of time out side – pretty much all my daylight hours – it lifted the work ethic spirit and helped with productivity. God is good.
The walls were all up, the ridge pole in place, the rafters were going up! Our sawyer put us under delay after delay… taking vacation, working off site and not cutting wood… but finally all the rafters were up! We began laying strapping down and then, the roof was ready for metal…
rafters going up….
