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Barn Raising: Closing In
Posted Nov 21 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
I’m writing this post three months after the photo above was taken. The work to close in the barn took place over a span of two and a half months, from August 19th through November 5th. Once the roof was in place, timelines relaxed a …
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Barn Raising: A Roof Overhead
Posted Jul 4 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
The first sheet of roofing installed on each section requires the greatest care with regard to alignment. Once it is secured it determines how true all successive pieces will run. We rigged a system that included a plywood panel with stop blocks that we could …
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Barn Raising: Putting A Roof On It
Posted Jul 2 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
Roof purlins are the framework that we’ll attach the roofing to. Time to swing a hammer. Marion drives nails (above). Once the purlins are nailed in place, I cut the ends to length. The purlin framework gives the roof a lattice that we’ll climb too …
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Barn Raising: Day Nine
Posted Jun 26 2016 by Kevin in Building projects, Monitor Barn
The ceremonial topping off with the whetting bush came on the ninth day of the raising, after we’d finished pegging the monitor rafters. In the photo above, I tack a hemlock bow to the highest point, giving thanks to the forest for providing the timber and …
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WALK ON A DIRT ROAD
The world awakens and so must I
To walk my unpaved road
While bird songs herald a new born day
And my spirit shall lighten it’s load.
For there is a certain fragrance
That seems to fill the air
When walking on a country road
Alone, with no one there.
No matter what the season
Or even time of day
Though the road be dust and even
Or rutted and hard as clay
With a breeze whispering through
The trees, spreading nature’s scent
I walk the road I love so well
My soul at peace, my heart content.
William E. Rose Jr (1927 – 2012)