23 October 2018

Spent some quality time in the shop fabricating a very cute 9½″ square wood cap for the peak of the barn cupola roof.  Made the cap from a scrap (used but still good?!?!) piece of 2x6 pressure treated lumber that has been lying around ever since it was used to form the sauna concrete footers in May 2014…  But wait, if you call right now originally that 2x6 was part of the staircase (built in the late 1980’s) that led from the Glasner’s (now Kate’s) house down to our waterfront.  So it’s practically an antique!  Hope the tax assessor doesn’t find out I used such a valuable piece of wood for the tip top of the barn.  If you’re wondering why I built the wood cap, that’s because Mike will be putting a metal cap on the cupola peak, which must be solid on the inside so that we can attach securely the flying pig weather vane that every Vermont barn must have.