Today was the day we finished the first cupola! It was a dreary over cast day. A very good day to be on the barn roof. It was very tolerable. I snapped a picture while waiting for Jason to cut the next piece of wood and tie it to the blue rope so I could pull it up and attach it to the cupola. Since our progress is measured in inches this year I decided I had better go cover the other cupola holes with plastic and a couple of pieces of tin to get us through until next year. I had just crawled up the hole when a very large storm rolled in. Jason was out watching for lighting while I tried to finish screwing the tin in place over the plastic. I got the far side down before the rain started. Oh boy does a cedar shake roof get slick with a little bit of rain on it. I managed to get the second piece in place before the torrential downfall started. I have hopes of doing another couple of days on the roof but I want to get things cleaned up and ready for winter now so I have to take it into account also.
We ran to town and when we came back we did some more fencing down by the far end of the orchard. The bull and sheep will no longer be able to sneak through the creek crossing. We also used the tractor and shovels to clean out the front creek from the far end of the orchard to the creek pipe crossing. The concrete chute where the old irrigation pump used to pump is full of dirt and grass, we just dug a path and removed most of the weeds. I want the creek bed to dry up where the water is not running so it can be worked with the tractor. There was a six foot wide path of mud, now there is a one foot wide channel with all the water running down it. I am hoping that other five feet of mud dries out. Here is a picture of the finished cupola.
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