We have been working on the barn every day that we can, as long as there is nothing falling from the sky. The cold temps are tough to deal with, especially first thing in the morning. Many days we have waited till 10 or 12 to go out and get things done. However this leaves us just a few hours of work time. None the less we have been moving right along. We’ve managed to get all the plywood up and the felt paper on. Our Amish friend Daniel was able to come over today and help out with finishing up the plywood, felt paper and trimming the beams to even them up along the sides. He was a tremendous help and will return tomorrow to help with the metal roofing. It will be so nice to get it all enclosed and the way we are going, that could be by the end of the week.

Although I am on vacation this week and able to help on the barn, there have been several days in the past couple of weeks where Paul has had to basically work alone. He was able to put up the support boards for attaching the siding. He framed in the window and the main door to the pasture. He put some siding up on the north side too.

On Sunday after our little holiday break we started putting the siding on the west side which faces the house. We were able to put up all the full sheets on this side and it really started to look like something.

This morning we framed in the door for the vet area. Then while Paul was working with Daniel up on the roof I worked on the siding around and on the window opening. But I forgot to take a picture of that so I’ll have to get one in the morning.