Another productive weekend at the ranch. We had some more weekend guests, great to see such interesting in checking things out, checking out exactly what it is Sheralee and I do each weekend! ha. Ainslee and her friend Mario joined us, as they were down from Portland for a long weekend. It was great having them both. Sheralee, Ainslee, and Mario headed out Friday early afternoon to the property, and I followed them later on. Of course, being monsoon season, the weather was not the best Friday, but we all managed to arrive safely.
Saturday we started in on our projects, Sheralee rebuilding our outdoor cooking stove and myself continuing on the new tool shed.
Outdoor cooking stove. It was time to put a rebuild into our stove. Sheralee moved it a little bit and we added a base of gravel to help with the slow, but steady, movement of the cinder blocks.
Now, I will say that I forgot to stop to take pictures of the final product, but we aren’t quite finished yet. Sheralee is still modifying it and we should have something more ‘permanent’ this coming weekend. I promise to take more pictures.
I started off working on the tool shed, finishing up some window framing. On both sides, there will be a 36×16 casement window. The are almost 6 feet off the shed floor. Got those windows in this week, so that is a next week project.
On Saturday I was able to finish the back wall sheathing before the rain came.
You can see some of the blah clouds in the background. That storm had quite some power, but thankfully it never made it directly over me.
Sunday, I got a lot of work done, completing all of the sheathing.
I took some inside pictures for Sheralee, as they had left previously.
This was just before I finished off the roof. Then this one was taking from within our second container, facing South, just past the solar panels.
That was about it for me. I got out of there ahead of any rain and headed back to the city. Can’t wait to get back up there and continue on…this weekend is windows, housewrap, siding, and polycarb roof panels! Waterproofing time!
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UPDATE: The Outdoor wood stove
Awesome!
