more land progress

[chelidon]

Friday: Install wood stove, then start on wood flooring. With gratefully received help from Ravishing Partner and Beamish Boy and Lovely Housemates ;>

...no, really, though from the pics it looks like they were just hanging around supervising, those pics are from when they brought dinner, wine and cheese up to the barn, then after we ate stayed to help install flooring. C has been scrubbing 20 years of horse...detritus off of the stalls. I think I have the nicer job.

Saturday:

Before 1a
Before 1b
After 1

Before 2
After 2

Silly worker guy

Hey, we could put on a PLAY in the BARN!

Today: run for supplies to the lumber yard, install vapor barrier, subfloor, and wood plank flooring in stalls, retrofit standard insulated exterior door to front barn doors, seal and insulate around doors, build and fit insulated window insert for composting toilet exhaust in tack room.

[EDIT: best laid plans and all...truck starter solenoid crapped out, so no lumber yard run today, truck into the shop tomorrow, and some shuffling of tasks in order to stay on schedule. Hmmph]

Next weekend: build bunk bed frames into stalls, install flooring in tack room, insulate windows, decorate and make everything pretty.

Comments

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

wow! what a difference...but don't kill yourself (or anyone else in the process...)

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

heh. Indeed, I'm trying to pace myself -- a little soreness in the body today, but so far, so good! It'll be great to be able to show it all to you soon!

[ravenedgewalker.livejournal.com]

yes! i'm looking forward to the grand tour :)

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

The wood inside the barn is GORGEOUS. No wonder you want to so something besides store tractors and "horse ... detritus" in there. :)

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

:) Yes, it's a real Hilton of a horse barn, very nice woodwork, electricity, frost-free hand-pump water, even a phone. I put a high-tech composting toilet in the tack room, and will be adding another in the Spring, which takes care of the bathroom situation.

One of my criteria in all of the renovations, though, is that everything we do has to be reversible, so we can potentially put it back to a barn for horses or other livestock somewhere down the line. I really want to build a stone and timber great hall out back, and if we have that for events, we can turn the barn back into a barn. So many plans, only 24 hours/day....

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

Mmm, plans. :)

I wrote an erotica piece this year that, among other things, depicted a very eco-friendly almost "hobbit" house with composting toilets, etc. (who says you can't use porn-writing as an excuse to do a lot of geeky research?). Now I want one, but ... it'd be up to our landlords. Someday I hope we'll be homeowners and can mess around with those kinds of things.

What kind of wood is that inside the barn?

Wow!

[lasirena23.livejournal.com]

I am totally impressed! You guys are doing really hard work. It looks gorgeous. It makes me wish I was going to the WCC. Ah well, some time I will come and see your home. Ms. C and I are planning something for next year I believe.

Re: Wow!

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Hard work, and it feels so good to be seeing our dreams manifesting here, more each year. It would be great to see you -- there's a bunch of events planned here next year, maybe one of them will catch your fancy and fit in with your schedule... In January MLK weekend Crow (Tejas) and I are doing a magickal writing/storytelling class, mid-April we'll be reprising last year's Music Arts Restorative (music, chant, drumming, etc), and the last weekend of June there's the Feri Camp (4-5 Feri teachers from different lines for a Thurs-Sunday camp). Likely some more in there, too, and I'll post announcements here, but of course if you're swinging through the area at some other time, definitely drop C and I a note!