Back at it again.

Yesterday(Saturday)I continued to work on the cabin reinforcements. The guy that I made a barter deal with has really made progress. We did everything from Z flashing to other minor adjustments like fixing my screw ups, which by the way he has been very patient with. Boy have I learned alot of carpentry from this project, mostly by mistake. My biggest biggest biggest lesson ever learned from this is to be good and sure that your floor frame is square from the get go before you even proceed. I wasnt square and it screwed everything up from the flooring to the roof, to the door frame, you name it.

Since we were using cordless tools of course the last of the battery juice drains when the very last piece of fascia board had to be installed. Neither of us had our handsaws handy. (*making note to put handsaw in truck toolbox) I still need other little minor things like the trim board, caulking, trimming edges and I need to pull two of the front siding panel down from my previous screw up to make it flush with the floor frame. Thats ok because then I will have scrap siding panel for my future chicken coop. I already have one full sheet of the siding panel and I am getting one more.

The barter deal was instead of paying him cash he was interested in my storage trailer which I was going to sell anyway. Im tired of seeing it there. It is an eyesore and takes up space. I let him take it yesterday and am sooooo glad he did. I have reclaimed some good valuable space. That section where the trailer was parked needs mowing real bad. I hope to put up fencing there shortly as well. It doesnt have to be heavy duty mostly just to partition it off. I had already set my T-posts all i need is the corner braces and fence which I have put away.

That lil place-o-mine is looking up a lil at a time. It will be a never ending process but Im ok with that. It was such a beautiful evening. I sat on my toolbox for a while to enjoy the sounds of nature and the quiet. It really saddens me when its time to go back home to the city.

In all, it was a good productive day yesterday. The temperature was warm at about 85 degrees or so. So much was done and today I am just plain ol' tired. I wanted to go back today but now I dont know that I will...I want to but Im tired and dont know that I will be productive and make it worth my fuel.

I had Charlie Horses again last night because my calves feel tight and weird. I dont know why but Ive been getting Charlie Horses lately.

Ok now Im just ramblin'....so thats it for now. I hope everyone is enjoying their homesteading projects with nice cool weather instead of summer temperatures like ours. Thanks fer stopping by. Until next time, see you on the back roads.

*Edit to add: I didnt make it back out to my lil place. My body felt wore out from yesterdays hard work. It woulda been a waste of time and gas had I gone back today.

Back side. You can see that it still needs trimming and cutting in certain areas.


Side view. Please excuse the mess. Even the trees and grass have gotten out from under me.