We finished the wood burning stove installation in the barn with all the metal shielding, piping and stuff. Chimney is up. WETT Inspection passed.  We are ready for winter ! Though I think we scared winter away - raining outside in the middle of Janu..

We finished all outside work on pole barn - right on time before winter comes. It does look good ! And feels good to built something of this size all by ourselves.Our big tractor now has winter home and all smaller garden vehicles are under cover for..

Construction complete, framing inspection passed, roof shingled... Whew ! Start grading now. Will need at least 2 full loads (44 ton) of crushed stones . Got just one for now - will see how it goes... Siding is already ordered, waiting time 3-4 weeks..

Since last post, long time took us to build the look-outs all around the roof edge, as well as we finished the attic floor, so that now I will be able to walk under the roof to hang up garlic, lavender, tobacco and such for drying. I ordered the trus..

All trusses are up the roof now - hung up one by one by just two of us, even though the gable end trusses were somewhat difficult to get up as they had to go from the outside of the walls to be nailed to the 20-foot posts sticking out. But all this i..

Finally weather is good to start the pole barn construction - long due since May. Heavy rains in June ruined all our previous plans to build barn/garage close to the house - those holes completely collapsed and we leveled them to the ground.When w..