The Barn

It's hard to believe that we started building in August.  Today the plan was to actually move items from the old shed to the new one.  Things did not go as quickly as we had hoped.  Got a lot of trash cleared though, and decisions made concerning layout and placement of critical tools.  Last week Eric came home with 2 sets of free shelving units that he combined into one, with a few parts left over.  The extra shelves gave him the perfect idea for tool storage for those long handled items.  Check out his creation.  All it cost us was time because all of the supplies were FREE or remnants from the build.

The 3'-0" x 6'-0"" shelf was cut down to 3'-0" x 2'-0" pieces, only two of the cut pieces were used.  Each of the squares in the shelf are 2"x2".  Just the right size for handles.

Next Eric used the Dado blade to make a 3/4" indentation for the shelf to lay down against in the frame.  This took a bit more time because of the set up required to change the blades on the saw and adjust height etc.

Also had a few adjustments to make after dry-fitting the shelf into the frame.  We decided that we wanted the shelf countersunk deeper than it was.  Next step is to fasten the frame together, since we were going for speed and not looks, we book-ended the corners.

One frame ready to go.  Now on to the next one...

Next was to assemble the legs, we agreed upon a 30" height for the length of the legs, and to keep the bottom frame up from the floor the width of a 2x4, about 3.5".

The completed frame.  We also fastened it to the purlins just to prevent tipping, although it most likely was heavy enough not to tip.  Eric always errs on the side of caution for these types of things.

Filling it up with some of the tools.  So great to have all of them organized and not rooting through them all stacked in the corner.  Eric really blew me away with this brainstorm of his...LOVE IT !!

The entire time to assemble from start to finish was approximately four hours. I hope you enjoy our brainstorm of a project.

Voting - our right

Today was the primary's for our state.  It was also the first time voting for my son.  Of course I had to have photos of the moment.  My son was voter #14 at our precinct.  He was a bit annoyed with me, but everyone there also knew him and made just as BIG of a deal about it as I did.  Once he found out another Mom was going to do the same thing with her son later, he settled down realizing that I'm not the only one who feels this is a milestone; he cooperated with a bit of reluctance.  Love him to pieces for putting up with me.  We've taught him to be informed about the candidates & the issues.  I can only hope that information follows him the rest of his voting.  Also taught him to NOT take it for granted.