This past week, we spent time pruning the trees around the house. We tackled the fruit trees: apples, apricots, Italian plums, and cherries. We also trimmed the flowers and plants in Rosy’s Garden. This is the earliest we tackled this project, so we are excited to see the results.

This time of year, we are always busy with work, and there have been times when we just didn’t have the time to decorate a tree with lights and ornaments. So when our first day off was 12/10, we went for it. First, we decorated the tree in the front window with lights and an… Read More Getting ready for Christmas

We’re excited to share our latest video, The Big Build! This special project captures every step of the journey, featuring photos from start to finish. It’s a celebration of creativity, hard work, and the incredible progress made along the way.

After dinner on Thanksgiving, we headed home to turn on the patio lights and fire up the fire pits to celebrate the finishing of the Big Build.

Once the plywood was in place, we were ready to add the metal roof. This took us a few nights and was tricky as we also had to deal with temperatures around 30 degrees and working on a slick roof. Cas came up with the idea of tying himself off to the opposite side as… Read More The Big Build is built

With rain forecasted and always the threat of snow, we pushed on, trying to get the roof in place before the weather stopped us from working. We had a few days with the forecast of snow, but luckily for us, it never materialized. Still working a few hours after work, we got the plywood in… Read More Roof is going on

Over the next few weeks, a few hours a night, we added the horizontal beams supporting the plywood and the roof. We added sixteen 20-foot beams and 36 individually cut pieces to help trim the boards. Once that was completed, we finished off the roof supports by adding the border beams around the structure.

As we neared Halloween we had everything ready to go but needed to get the trusts up and in place. So we bought a hoist that we could use to lift the then into place with ease, or so we thought. On our first attempt we built a twenty food tee pee style support to… Read More Rise up

Cas went into high gear over the weekend and completed the final two trusts, which was fantastic. With so many parts, holes, nails, and bolts, it was amazing what he was able to accomplish. But now the rain has come back and provide us with lots of needed rain but brought us to a stopping… Read More Trust two and three

With working and rain off and on all week, we were slowed in our mission but found plenty to do. When he could Cas would continue to make his cuts for the other trusts, and I continued to paint of stain the boards as needed so once we had time, we could go, go, go!… Read More Prep week