incidental boy
Of course the boy came along for the test drive! This is as much about him as it is about me. Also getting him out of the house to run off some energy this time of year is ALWAYS a good idea.
February 2020
pinning it down, tacking it up
One thing I was VERY careful to do when I put the plywood on the roof was NOT to put screws right at the edge of each rafter. I had a Plan. (This one worked.)
alas, fail
So the rafters do a GREAT job of holding up the roof, except for along the edges because there’s no rafter there, but that’s where the top of the walls hold up the roof, except they don’t extend past the end walls, & what I’m babbling about here is the part where the corners of …
snugglebaby
One of the very best things abut winter is the amount of time I spend with my bestest baby on my lap. He’s pretty fond of that part, too.
she’s not DONE
but she’s READY posting unlocked because everyone gets to see this, real time not gonna do any more construction posts til after I get home, because I am p00ped but she GOES she rides SO SMOOTH, brakes cleanly with no wobbling. i took her over a cattle grate at 60 & she shook … a …
congratulations, it’s a door!
Hey Siliconshaman LOOK I remembered to mark the edges before I took the hinges off! (for which i MOST PROFOUNDLY thank you)
just a bit of wall
I wasn’t feeling up to working on the roof today & everything’s still wet from the snow yesterday anyway, so it was a wall day. & I was kicking ass until I ran out of screws. Still, it’s more wall done, a bit closer to being able to put in the door. I’ll take it. …
a very Halpful tomcat
I’ve been letting Major Tom come outside with me every so often while I’m working on the tinker’s wagon; it’s not baby bunny season, he’s staying close to the house, & anyway he’s a quick little (big) shit & I can’t always catch him on the way out the door.
stapling flappy things in the wind
Above is a picture of the side of the roof I wanted to get housewrap over today! Note that there is a tarp over it! Which I did NOT want to take all the way back off, because bugger that for a lark!