PLANS FOR THE SEASON |
We have tons going on this year. As well as the crops and gardens, we also have some construction/maintenance type jobs to be worked on such as: installing a new 24 ft. trellis for more hops, building repair, outside painting, the building of a lumber shelter and restoration work on the old granary which is over 150 years old and is now used as our drying shed upstairs and the machine shed in the bottom.
We are great scroungers and love old lumber when we get our hands on it; however, we do have 5 beautiful, brand new 10 foot, 8 x 8 hemlock posts waiting to reinforce the corners of the granary once the great weather starts to appear and the helpers arrive.
We have a great wood working shop, with lots of tools. Last season, we had to replace an exterior wall and with the help of Andre, this was completed.
Because of this huge outside job, the inside of the shop must be organized and re-vamped in early Spring of this year because it is just too cold during the winter. Some things were started in early winter, but had to cease until things warm up.
So, besides the redoing of the inside, we plan to do the exterior siding this season using the board and batten method.
To see our WISH LIST for this season click here |
The old gal still standing after all of these years
Hemlock posts for the corners.
The boxed beds in early Spring. Pathways ready for new layers.
Bags of leaves, cedar sawdust & straw being saved to replace the mulched pathways
New hemlock board delivery. Most will be used to replace the worn out edges of the boxed beds.
The wall which needed to be replaced
Tearing it apart
New studding and the window frame installed
Almost all boarded in
Andre and Elyse cover the wall with tarpaper
Serge---Workshop organizer extraordinaire
2 masterminds at work
