The O-Zone

Yesterday we had to go to Home Depot to get things needed to complete the garage construction, and we also stopped at our favorite orchard to pick up a box of pie cherries and raspberries since our own pie cherry tree didn’t set any fruit this year (being still a tiny baby tree), and our […]

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The roofing trusses were delivered and installed in place, awaiting plywood sheathing and then the waterproof covering and the metal roofing on top of that. That will be a major step forward, as the garage will be dried in. Since we’re not insulating the garage this point, it doesn’t really matter having air flow, but […]

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The garage framing is done. It’s a simple building, four exterior walls and one interior wall separating the garage from the storage room, two personnel doors, two windows, and a garage door. Very simple. These materials sat in the yard for over a week, waiting for the concrete to dry. Watching concrete drying is a […]

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Who knew! Our first strawberries were ready to be picked!! And it was only the middle of June. And the flour I ran out of also arrived today, in time to make a cake for the strawberries to sit on. So exciting. We’ll have a regular amount of strawberries from now until the middle of […]

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The garage project has begun, and on Wednesday the concrete will be poured. A whole lot of work has gone into getting the form created and ready for concrete. They used a laser level to get everything nice and flat. Very exciting seeing it at this point in its existence. We also got the new […]

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Well, almost done. Still have a lot of little projects like staining and varnishing the top of the window seat, and making a cushion. Fortunately neither is time sensitive. At some point there will be a rug but probably a month away from that. The ingredients for the cushion on the window seat are sitting […]

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