Staying on the theme of building, I've not shown the progress on the cob barn for ages, and it's nearly finished!Yes, the doors and windows have to be completed, the remaining downpipes have to go up (or should that be down?), and there is some fiddling around and general tarting up, but on the whole, the major stuff is done.
It has a roof! You can enter without taking your life in your hands. You can stand inside and dream and plan, and admire and chat, and think and pat the dogs, and grin. Lots and lots of grinning.
Those black spaces that are doorways will have doors, those top windows will have shutters, those heaps of sand and timber and stuff will go, and there will be a useful and used space. All those plans will be taken out of the head and put into practice. No more excuse for not getting an in-pig sow, cows, or delaying the breeding of guinea fowl and ducks.
Across the yard, the threshing barn has taken on the scaffold shroud shrugged off by the cob barn. And as a reminder of the sad ruinous state of the cob barn back in July 2007, here's the before shot:
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Love your blog - I always learn so much from your posts. Your barn issues also make my own impending reno seem quite manageable.
I've tagged you at http://gardenopolis.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/garden-tag/ - cheers.
Thank you Zora.
Congratulations on all the progress. It looks lovely.
Your cob barn renovation looks superb and well done to you and yours for caring enough to take on this project. When complete, the threshing barn should prove hugely popular with passing devotees of S&M...
Well done to all involved - that's quite an achievement. Forget mere grinning - I would be squealing with delight.
Wow, what progress! It all looks great.
that;s incredible mopsa - whata terrific achievement!
Thanks y'all. And YP, I think you need some bromide in your tea. Or a good spanking.
I'd forgotten the original - it's difficult to believe.
Now it's positively strokeable...
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