You may have noticed, I finally got around to posting more pictures in the gallery…

• Priming: in total, we had 47 sheets of siding (some 10′, some 8′) to prime — front and back. The siding is T-111, and to put simply, rough-cut siding basically drinks primer. Was quite hard work, and I wish to express my huge thanks to those friends who spent the time helping us out! It is very much appreciated!!

  The pics indicate a pink color for the priming. No, The Barn will not be pink! In this case, we elected to mix some of the “Barn Red” paint with the primer to (hopefully) fascilitate the final coats of paint. In the end, it was recommended by the paint professionals to tint the primer gray, so that is the appearance of most of the siding.

  Here, there are a couple of pictures of the first coat of the final color. We currently have about 15 sheets with 1 final coat on them…and the remainder yet to do. We were hoping to get one coat of color on before the siding was mounted, but the builders are too quick! They have about 75% of the siding up–some red, some still gray. Oh well, we’ll paint it twice after it’s up. Good thing I’m young (ish).

• Well House (aka Pump House): Earlier, I referred to this thing as the Pump House. Hereafter, I’ll (try to) call it the Well House. In reality, it holds a tank, but I’m not calling it a Tank House.

  Sequentially, this was built over the course of 2-3 weekends. This thank you goes to the Supervisor of our whole project: Father-in-Law. Jeff, you’re invaluable! As of now, the Well House is up, roofed including shingles, door hung, and tank mounted (with water-a-flowing). Woohoo! Left to do: final coat of paint, prime & paint the door frame, a bit of trim, and prime & paint some trim. Few things on the list, but in reality, probably a day’s work or so.

• The Brush Piles: These pictures are of one rather large burn pile that sits about 50′ from The Barn. It’s gotta go. Several times we’ve started this thing blazing and it’ll burn much of the material out of there, but at the same time much of the material remains. Basically, it won’t stay burning. However, we’ll keep at it…it’ll be gone at some point.

  Aside from this one, there are about 7 more slash piles about on the property. This is by far the biggest, and contains the most root wads from the clearing of the home site…so is clearly the most difficult to destroy.

  Also, take a look at the last few pictures in this gallery to see some “before” and “after” pics of The Barn.

For The Barn, up next is insulation in the walls and ceiling, and sheetrock…that is set to start next week (pending an inspection approval due today).

More next week!