As we had left off of the last post, we had taken a long shot approach and found a local farmer that was willing to take down the machine shed. After more than a year of cleaning out and cleaning out and cleaning out…we actually get to do some demo work! We cannot begin to explain how excited we were to see something done other than shoveling raccoon infested trash into a dump trailer. After a bit of logistics, the…
If you love a blog post with lots of pictures, you’re going to love this post! After our move, getting the machine shed cleaned out, so it could be taken down, was our top priority. We were getting so close to getting it totally cleaned out. We decided that the shelves in the back of the shed that go floor to ceiling were up next for deconstruction. Luckily Chris doesn’t have a problem with heights! Each shelf was constructed with…
We’re back at work in the machine shed. We know that this project is not a sprint…it’s more like a marathon. One weekend we work in the machine shed, the next weekend might be inside work or even outside work. It helps to break up the overwhelmingness (I know, that’s not a word!) of working on one section of this project for too long. Coming back to work on the machine shed felt better this time around. We were definitely…
I can walk up to the 2nd floor of the house and see all the raccoon poop that has baked for multiple summers. That is gross! But, of course, we managed to find something that is so much worse. In the quonset sits three chest freezers and an old refrigerator. Like the rest of the house, the previous owners left us the remnants of their future dinner entrees’. Fortunately, two of the freezers were still plugged in. Those two were…
After such a stressful time with the raccoon poop and all, we took some time away from the project. It had consumed so much of our spare time. We went on our summer vacation to Table Rock Lake on a houseboat. When we returned, we were refreshed and enough time had passed that we were ready to get back to work. We did choose to ease our way back in. Instead of tackling a project inside the house, we…