We are making slow progress, but at least it's progress on the barn restoration project. We had the lumber delivered this past week for the board and batting. In the mean time, Mike worked on cutting off the limbs from the old elm that are hanging above the barn. Probably the smartest thing to do would be to take the elm trees out completely but they have been there for so long that I hate to cut them. The old corral fence was falling apart from age and weather and Mike started taking it down and cleaning up around the area. Years of decaying leaves and dirt that has washed from the hills had covered up a concrete pad outside the shed along the back. Mike dug down enough to find it but will wait for the heavy equipment that we will bring down from Staunton once his nephew is through with it (His nephew is in the process of building commercial chicken houses.) The barn is actually not in bad shape. It needs a few structural repairs (nothing major that we have found) but mostly just a good cleaning and face lift on the outside with the new lumber. With a few days in Southwest Virginia and a few days in Staunton each week, it makes it hard to get as much done as we would like but we are trying to enjoy the process.
