12.29.2015

We woke up to a blanket of snow as well as some ice - and it continued sleeting throughout much of the day.

Jim ran errands in the morning - picked up electric order and arranged delivery of our big spool of wire; turned in the license plates on the box truck for the winter; and stopped at Lowe's for a few more supplies.

Once he got back, we headed out to the site in the early afternoon.  We found the carriage house snow covered - but look at the piles of snow in front of the garage doors from the roof area!

It was so nice to go inside and see things basically dry - the only snow was a little in front of the places where we don't have windows as well as along the east side where the wall is open.

Today's task was moving!  We have piles of material in the yard that Jim wanted to get inside.  Before we could start, he had to do some snow shoveling.  The entire yard and all surfaces were coated with a good layer of crusty ice on top of the snow - made walking kind of a challenge! 

After Jim got the Bobcat deiced, the first pile we moved was the OSB that we had left over from our initial delivery.

Then we brought in the newest delivery of OSB and plywood.

Jim brought the Bobcat up to the landing area and then we carried each piece inside and set them up on wood rails.  Nice to see it all safe and dry inside.



Jim needs 7 more pieces of plywood up in the apartment to finish the east wall.  So he had to unload those pieces from the Bobcat, put on the wood extension he made, and then reload the plywood.  He can only lift 4 pieces at a time since he has to lift it up so high.  We had to carefully go up the ladder with icy rungs and shoes, then we unloaded the 7 pieces and stacked them with our other wood in the apartment.

 

Next moving project was our doors!  All of the doors, hardware and miscellaneous parts were nicely wrapped on this extra-long pallet.  Jim brought the entire pallet over to the shop and then we unloaded everything.

Once the pallet was empty, we brought it into the shop and restacked the doors on top of it for support.  For now, we left door jambs and some miscellaneous parts on top of the wood.  The doors look wonderful - can't wait to see doors go in!

 

While we came home a little wet (gloves got soaked immediately since everything was wet and icy!), we felt good getting all the moving work done - especially in not-so-great weather conditions!

 

High 32/Low 30 - wintery mix