20 September 2018

Visited with Mike Many while walking Shlomo this morning.  Mike recommended raising the cupola base a few inches in order to accommodate the metal roof ribs and hip caps.  Back at the barn, careful measurements showed that the cupola, as built, wouldn’t have fit right even without the ribs and hip caps interfering.  Who designed that thing?  So added 2″ to the cupola’s foundation on the top of the barn roof, which should (note I said “should”) solve the problem.  Will have to cut off and remove the eight ¼″ x 7″ tie-down bolts and replace them with ¼″ x 9½″ threaded rods.  Loaded a bunch more “stuff” into Delores, including $107 worth of petrol.