family projects

If someone said you could have this barn for free, would you take it? Well we would and we did! And the best part is that it is only 3 miles from our house. So what do we plan to do with it? Take it down and use the materials. We will plane the boards for an authentic real wood floor in our house, all red oak. We will use some of the tin on our own barn, as well as some of the wood. And who knows what we might do with the rest. but you can follow along on this family project at my new site I am just starting about how we have remodeled our 150+ year old farm house. My new site is called Bless-this-old-house.com and it will be a blog journaling our old house adventure step by step. I just got started on it today so the site needs a little remodeling of it’s own but it will be pretty here soon enough. OK, back to this barn. How do you take down a barn? Especially a big barn? One bite at a time. One board at a time. Keep reading…..

  you start with a weedwacker, the big heavy

 duty one the Lord told me to buy a couple years back when He said, “You need big tools for big jobs.” He was speaking spiritually and physically.

  The first thing you do is weed wack a path to the barn.

  Then you look up at all that beautiful oak wood.

 Then you weed wack inside the barn.

 Then you notice all the neat stuff underneath all the poison ivy.

  What is that thing? Can’t be an outhouse it has a ladder on it!

  Then you start taking off boards, one at a time, and putting them in a pile.

  Stop to admire, these are nice boards!

Then you put them in the back of the blue FORD truck and bring them home. This great new family project Works for Me this Wednesday and I bet it counts as an unusual Wordless Wednesday pic also, even though I did have to explain 🙂