A very rewarding day today … even though it started late as it was very foggy in the morning and took time to clear up.

I started out with, thankfully, the last session of lifting lumber up to the barn attic … that’s finally done. From here on it will be about hauling stuff back down for building stuff. In an last second improvisation I left some of the last heavy 2×10’s and with a few bricks managed to turn them into temporary shelves – so (a) I didn’t have to lift them to the attic; (2) they will continue to dry; (3) I have shelves in the barn. Which opened the door to the next task…

Emptying all of my tools from the summer kitchen … I moved everything except the mitre saw and stand which I still need to figure out where would be best to place. It is nice, even though the barn is far from a pleasant work space, to finally have all of the tools arranged on impro-shelves. It makes getting to them and using them much easier … especially now that the barn is free and may become a limited workspace in the coming weeks as weather may limit my options outside.

Then, when the summer kitchen was empty of tools Andreea joined me and we continued to clear it out and to unload all of the jars that were on the temporary shelves (I hacked together in our first weeks here). We tore down the existing shelves – a simple yet symbolic task – we’ve already moved on past something we created ad-hoc that served us well but is no longer relevant … a definite and welcome sense of moving on 🙂

Then, except for a few small glitches, the new shelve went up very quickly. They are solid and offer us plenty of space. We began to repopulate the shelves and abundance hit us smack in the face … this is what the shelves look like partly occupied with all of the food we have prepared for the winter … what a site 🙂

Somewhere in the midst of it all I also managed to finish the finishing of the shower stall … there is one piece still drying … so hopefully tomorrow we can begin (and complete?) that assembly … and shower?