Barn cleanup

So I dug out the barn some more today. Gonna be a theme for a while. Annmarie's dad keeps telling me that the barn has never been cleaned out totally, because his father said it would fall apart. I have found three types of flooring already and today I found 6 inches of rusted metal fence post sticking straight up out of the floor!! No way I would have been able to use a piece of equipment to clean it out. Besides the obvious problem of the floor caving in!!! The weather was beautiful, not to hot and the wind was not blowing. Of course it still stinks like shit (cause it is), I stayed clean, did learn that I needed to keep my mouth shut when using the pick ax. Shit was flying everywhere and I ended up with some in my mouth. Doesn't taste that great!!! Went inside and talked Annmarie into helping me hang all our pictures. We were marking spots on the wall and she told me I stank!!!! I told her I was really clean and smiled at her. She said I had brown stuff in my teeth and my breath smelled like crap!!! What a way to complement me!! I went and took a shower...

And I thought I was being so careful to stay clean. Go figure. Gonna have to keep clean after my workout. Shoveling gives me lots of time to contemplate the barn remodel. I LOVE the planning stages of a project. Hands down the best part. This lets me try all kinds of different approaches in my head and the pros and cons of each one. I am looking for an easy way to maximize most of the usable space. The support structure under the barn is going to be a big deal. There are several twisted supports under the barn. I either need to fix those or just cut that chunk of the barn out. If I do that the barn gets smaller!!! So I am trying to balance efficiency with size return. No worries, I have lots of time to think about the project, cause it is gonna take me a while to dig it out!!

digging the barn

This is going to be an ongoing theme. I moved some feeders around and tossed a bunch of broken wood out of the barn so I could dig some more. Annmarie's father always told us that if I dug the barn out the animals would fall through the floor. I have found two different floors and some beam that sticks up four inches from the floor!! Not sure what it is there for. The stink is something awful!! The barn crap never composted because it was under cover and dried out. So now the front part is wet because the roof blew off. It stinks to high heaven!!! Nasty smelling. I did get some more crap done (yep). I have to work the next two days at my paying job so it will have to wait. I did not go get my planer and jointer today. It was pouring down rain most of the day and I didn't want them to get wet. I have the old house all ready. I cleaned a spot in the middle of the room!!!!! They will sit there nice and pretty for a while.

raisin