BARN update...

Happy weekend - and Happy Thanksgiving to all of our fellow Canadian friends.  xo

A little update around the acres...

Remember our dear barn?  Above is the condition it was in when we moved in in June.  It is a nice sized barn that has four horse stalls within its walls, but it had been used as a teenager's games room by the previous owners - so it needed a little reorganization.

We began by pulling off some rotten boards from the inside of the barn and power washing the exterior boards - replacing ones that needed replacing.  Purchasing sixteen foot barn board and using the table saw as our own personal lumber mill in typical Schnick fashion.

And of course our little ladybugs were amazing helpers...

Directing Daddy on the tractor... and balancing Dad's tool belt with a stuffed kitty.

By September we had a very nice looking barn with discussions of whether to paint or replace the steel roof.. that is an ongoing conversation at this point.

 With perfect seasonal timing, we moved work indoors as autumn hit with a run of rainy cool days.  Derek really has done ALL of the work inside the barn up to this point.  Well, Derek and his feline helpers.

With one stall back in place, the other two were left open and used as Derek's workshop.  His first goal was to insulate and replace the walls in what will become our tack and feed room and replace the broken wood floor boards.  He worked away and after a weekend we had a lovely room - including a replaced window that keeps the room toasty.

As you can see in the above photo the far wall is still plywood awaiting its new boards.  That project waits patiently as we moved outdoors this weekend to put in some livestock fencing!  More on that to come...

THANKFUL that you are following along,

the "Schnicks"