Two Silos Farm

The next step was putting the door in. This was a bit tricky as there really wasn’t enough room. I suppose we could have special ordered a 30” door, but we figured out how to make the 32” one we had work. Our normal choice is to put in 36” doors, but we had decided not to make the front opening any larger when we replaced the front door. Then we decided to move the door, and used the one we had already bought.

Since a 36” door would not have physically fit, it worked out pretty good.

Eventually we will extend the roofline across the front of the house, and build a small porch. Hubby says “Not this year” but we’ll see . . .

I insulated and put up plastic on the walls, and by the weekend, we were ready to put in the windows. We really like the Pella windows we’ve been putting in the house, they install nicely. Didn’t take long and we had them both installed. Sure is nice having windows in that room again.

We put up the last ceiling joist, nailed to the wall above the door. Had to wait on that one until the door was in. I put up the last bit of insulation in the ceiling, and Saturday, July 21^st, we were ready to sheetrock.

We had picked up the lift the afternoon before, so we got right to work Saturday morning. We had enough sheetrock left over from the living/dining room project that we didn’t need to buy more. However, it was stored over by the laundry room. The easiest way to get it moved was to bring it through the living room, dining room, through the hall, past the kitchen and into the den. Sounds like a lot, but from the living room on the west end to the den on the east end, it’s pretty much a straight shot.

Hubby has been motivated, because getting the sheetrock moved means we are one step closer to getting his reloading room built. While moving the sheetrock, he got an idea of a slight floor plan change. Instead of making the loft go all the way across, we’ll end it between the windows. That way we’ll have more usable room upstairs, and less wasted room above the stairwell. I guess that is one good thing about taking so long on a project, you have plenty of time to think about plans and get ideas for doing this differently.

Oh yea – back to the sheetrock.

I had mapped out the joists, and planned the layout for the sheetrock. Like just about every other room, this one is not square. So we started right in the middle of the ceiling and worked our way outwards. That way we always had one square corner to work off of.

We only had one opening to cut around, and the rest went up smoothly. We still have one small piece to put up above the stove, but could use the lift so we left that for today when Son is home to help. That way Son and I can hold it in place and Hubby can put in the screws. It’s only about 2’ x 5’, so not that big of a piece to hold in place.

Returned the lift in the afternoon – a very well spent $25. Our very first ceiling we put up without renting a lift, and we will NEVER do that again LOL!!!

Little Tikka (aka RatCat) got tired out just from watching us.

Returned the lift in the afternoon – a very well spent $25. Our very first ceiling we put up without renting a lift, and we will NEVER do that again LOL!!!

Today we’ll work on getting the sheetrock up on the walls.

After supper last night, we went out to use up some .22 ammo. Friday afternoon, we had gone up to Cabala’s and I found a sweet little .22 revolver. I’ve been looking around for one of these, and was real happy to find one. Every once in a while we find a good deal at Cabala’s LOL!!

This is an H&R 9 shot double action .22LR revolver.

Hubby is happy with the accuracy (even I was hitting the target at 30’).

Cathy