It seems amazing to us, but the exterior of Graham's shop is almost finished. The end is close at hand and we're really happy about that. It's been a multiyear project, but one that will pay off for the rest of our lives here in the Valley. Eventually, Graham wants to run a hydraulic business from this shop.   This is the side that faces the road. Graham has built scaffolding from … [Read more...]

No, I don't have them, I am staining them. I'm trying to get an hour a day in up at the Shop, staining all the remaining shingles piled in there.     We've got 3 full bundles plus about 1/2 a bundle. Graham figures we will need almost all of them to finish off the last gable end - we had thought this job would have been long over. Guess someone has been delaying … [Read more...]

Before we started working on the shingles for the gable ends, Graham had to finish the blocking. It needed to be done to give him something to nail the soffiting to.     Here he is putting up the first piece of soffiting. We are using the same boards as we used for the siding. This means we can use up most of the leftover pieces of longer boards that had to be … [Read more...]

We're back to working on the shop again. We've put up a second round of OSB on all the walls and Graham has been able to set a few things up so he can do his mechanical work.     You can see I have still have a lot of boards to stain. I have done enough that we can finish the shop - the rest will be going on the house. We thought we could get to that this year, but I doubt … [Read more...]

Anyone who has been reading our site for the last couple years know we are still working on getting Graham's shop finished. We have spread the work out over four years now, I think. Not because we wanted to but because life kept getting in the way.   Here's where we are with the shop now. Graham has set up the scaffolding on the back side of the shop. We needed the scaffolding in … [Read more...]