22 August 2018

After a fair bit of rain last night, the inside of the barn was completely dry this morning.  Zippity doo dah, miracles do happen!!!!  Spent the morning removing (with help from the evil Mr. Angle Grinder) the varmint and flying insect barriers from the inside of the cupola openings, fabricating new hardware cloth and aluminum screen pieces, then installing those new pieces on the outside of the cupola openings… where they should have been placed originally to prevent birds from nesting on the opening ledges.  Two steps back and another step forward…  After lunch, back-primed the ½″ MDO boards that are destined to become the barn soffits.  Note: back-priming is a technical term for color coating my hands, arms, and (don’t ask) hair while, in theory, sealing the edges and back of the wood against water damage.