The contractor arrived late on Wednesday afternoon with the last of the window grills and the repaired barn window. That’s the last of the things he had to do until he starts on the finishing of the new woodshed.
I caught a nice reflection of the remaining tree behind the barn in the repaired window.
This is the before photo of the east end of the barn before we started.
We had 2 hours on Thursday to work in the barn. My general helper and I ran around until 11:30AM doing errands like dropping of the lawnmower and chainsaw, shopping, getting new glasses for me, and buying new to me garden pants that fit. I also got a spring jacket.
This alcove was where we tossed waste wood for using for kindling for the stoves. It had been piled about 5’ deep, but people had chipped away at it and it was down to just over 2’ deep. My helper friend tackled that, sorting out keeping wood and throwing the rest in the back of the truck.
We got a decent truckload that should be enough to get through the rest of the season. My tenant helped unload it into the cellar for cutting up in the workshop.
This is the stall I stored all the fencing in. It had gotten stuff thrown into it and was about 5’ deep too. I cleaned out a place in front of it that I’d used to store the pasture pen pieces and moved those out. Then I started hauling out bags of feed sacks for holding kindling, small pieces of hardware cloth and garden fencing, and some stuff that had no business in there.
I was able to get over to where the window in and start picking up some of the glass. My general helper helped sorting the fence posts on the right side before she had to go.
My helper friend and I had to quit about 1PM and this was the mess we left.
On Friday my general helper, my helper friend, my tenant, and his fiancée will all be here at 8AM and I’m hoping we get about ¾ of the 2 bays cleaned out, cleaned up, and organized. That will leave the disaster of a workshop as the next project. Once we get past that it will go much easier.
We’ll have plenty to go to the dump on Saturday.