Sunday, November 11, 2012

the wood shed....

oh no.... a delivery of wood... and not the burning kind.. the building kind. My dear Ed is onto another project.. our woodshed!!!
For those who may not know, we heat our home entirely by wood. There is no furnace in our house and no oil.. just wood that is burned in an outside furnace which sends the hot water into the house, and goes from there. The very first winter we had no shelter for our wood except covering the piles with a tarp. Not very efficient, especially after a heavy snow...
The next  couple of winters, we used one of those "portable buildings" (aka tent).. which worked pretty well. But our tent building was an older one and the weather really took it's toll last year. So this year, Ed said it was time for a "real" building. He called our friend Ken (who helped build our barn) and the first day... the back wall was up....
When I got back on Tuesday after having gone to the doctor with Kas... the front wall was up. These two can really move when they work together like that.
We want it to look like a carriage building... which has a high front and a low back. There are many old carriage buildings here in new England where just the carriages and sleigh were stored...
With snow and yucky weather on its' way, Ed and Ken planned to get the walls done and spend the yucky days in the garage building the tresses for the roof.
this is kind of a funny picture.. when Ed's Dad was alive, he always commented on how "people worked in the doorway of the building" more than they worked inside... as you can see... that's where Ed and Ken worked this day... in the doorway....
but by the end of the day, they had most of the outside work done and brought in the pieces for the work to do inside the next day....
The garage worked perfectly.. while the winds howled and the snow fell... they built 27 roof tresses all inside...
And when the sun re-appeared on Friday.. up went the tresses.... This coming week, they'll get the end walls up, the roof done.. and then it will be "my" turn...



bringing all the wood (15 or so cords) inside!!! Hopefully I can beat the next snowfall....