Saturday saw us inside re-caulking our shower while 35+mph winds blew outside. Lyrics from “Oklahoma” float through my head, and I wonder when we’ve had a windier spring. This is getting to be ridiculous!
By Saturday evening after supper it was mostly calm, so we headed outside to get the floor frame and structural beams and supports put together. We finished all that in a couple of hours, and were wrapping up by dark. After checking the weather forecast and seeing that Sunday’s forecast called for another day of strong winds (when will this quit already?), we seriously considered putting some lights up and just working through the night to finish construction. After all, the winds weren’t supposed to start up again until late morning.
But we decided to call it quits for the night and just get up early Sunday morning and get to work. We were up with the sun and quickly headed outside to begin construction. I have zero photos of the construction process, because we were working at a fast and furious pace to get everything finished. We had the walls up by 8 am, and were feeling pretty good. But as soon as we started attaching roof panels the wind decided to rear its ugly head again and we were fighting it the rest of the day. Fortunately, Jason’s dad came to help us when he got up Sunday morning, and with his assistance we were finished by 4:30. Even with the wind. (Jas said it probably added at least two hours to our construction time, because all three of us had to work on one piece at a time.) Those big metal pieces were like sails as soon as you picked them up, so you can imagine how much fun that was. :)
We lucked out in the fact that almost every single one of our holes lined up perfectly. We were also fortunate that Jason and his dad work so well together, and each could anticipate what the other was thinking, which made the process much smoother. It was a long exhausting day, but it feels good to be able to cross yet another project off the list.
Jason plans to anchor the shed even more with some lag bolts this week, as well as build a ramp to get the lawnmower in and out. The floor kit we got for free from Sears (in the box in the above photo) is going to be used for extra bracing and to make some shelves. Depending on the weather this coming week, we can hopefully get all that finished.
After that, landscaping is all that’s left!
