{"id":6003,"date":"2024-06-27T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:49:17","slug":"roofing-trusses-and-strawberries-and-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"Roofing Trusses and Strawberries and Flowers."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looks so unfinished, but in reality a ton of work has been completed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The little holes in the blocking boards are covered with wire to block birds and mice from getting into the attic space, which still allowing air flow. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since we’re not insulating the garage this point, it doesn’t really matter having air flow, but down the road we will definitely be finishing the inside of the garage. We will be finishing the inside of the storage space now as we may decide to use it for cold storage of root vegetables, next year. There will be a heater in both rooms of the garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a nine foot ceiling, making both spaces feel much larger than they are.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This will be the last day we can see the sky from inside the garage. So exciting!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday while we were waiting for the truss company to deliver these building components we were busy doing other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We picked strawberries and took care of some laundry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some shirts that cannot go into the dryer get to spend the day on towels on the counter top. A very busy kitchen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Another batch of berries which were rinsed off and waiting for me to chop their little heads off and prepare them for the freezer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So far I’m up to one week in April. There are at least two more harvests of this size already ripening on the plants, then they’ll take a little breath and do some growing, and then start producing again. We will definitely have enough berries in the freezer for strawberries once a week, year round!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some wild flowers, aka weeds, growing all around the house in areas where there has been no mowing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The purple ones are vetch, highly prized by chickens. They love love love to eat vetch. I told Dan that definitely we could support a good sized herd of chickens and he said no chickens. Again…. I hear that a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They are quite pretty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today the contractors will put the plywood down on the trusses and install the waterproofing. That will protect the plywood from the rain which is coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday we’ll go pick up the paint we need for the exterior of the building, and pay a visit to Smallwood Farms to get pie cherries and raspberries! I’ll freeze both for other desserts over the winter. Cherry cobbler, and a crisp, and a pie! Or maybe just pies. Depends on the request I get at the time which one I’ll make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still haven’t seen any fawns, but the meadow grasses are so high that it’s likely one or more of the many does we see wandering around out there are being followed by a wee deer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}