Well , plans were approvedby the building dept. today.
No, not the Douglas County guys,,,,the wife.
I have all the materials on site except the roof, which we are still debating. I want steel, she wants shingles.
That, some hardware for the sliding doors and 15 ton of gravel. As soon as I get 120 feet of 8/3 AGW in the ground, we are on the way.
Now all I need is good weather and some time.
Well, time for an update.
Weather and children have gotten in the way.
I finally got the stumps out but have not yet buried the Electric cable. We are hooked up to the main power, but the cable is laying on the ground.
house is on hold,,,,,Barn is going up a stick at a time. Roof material will be steel,,,,Yippie. Turns out actualy priced competitive to shingles once we calculated sheathing and labor. $3500.00 vrs $2200 total material costs. Steel is more but, steel is for 50 years.
Because of the weather we haven't been to the place in five weeks. So the project is way behind.
I spent a week in CT helping my son. Poor guy cannot do anything strenuios with his legs without pain. We built 16' X 12' garden boxes and hauled hand dug dirt to them in wheel barrow sized dump cart. 30 loads @ three cubic foot per box.
He's forty on daily oxycotin. I'm 68 on Glenfidditch. Perhaps home remedies are best?
Funny, you always expect your kids to help you out when you get older.
I watch Squerly's project grow like a weed and by comparison, I have accomplished relatively nada.