What a perfect evening out! I was out to close the gates, and the light and temperature were absolutely as I could want it. I am inside now, and Missus is watching Shakespeare and Hathaway on the television. Scenes are filmed around Stratford Upon Avon, including outside the house Shakespeare was born in, and in a pub with deep ambiance of old England. It’s called The Mucky Mallard. The Tudor houses and the bricked roadways sure add to a certain feeling of the beauty of the world.
I was at work with Missus shortly after getting up today, and I have kept busy with her and various projects around the farm for all day till dusk. From cleaning in the shed and granary to cleaning in the yard, feeding animals, and repairing some siding on the barn. In spite of all of it and being on my feet for most of the day, I never got sore or felt tired. A month ago, I would have had a day like this, but it would have taken me four days to do it all, and I would have been sore from all of it. Since my change in diet, I have been feeling so much better. I think this must be what normal feels like, and boy, what a difference it’s making in my life! Today was simply amazing. It will sure be hard to go off my diet. I suspect the thing that I eliminated that eased all the pain was the sugars, or even the bread and grains. Whichever, I don’t want it back at any price for the sake of how much pain I am not feeling now.
The workshop is cleaner today, too. I did a bit of work in there, then I also got some wood out when I patched up the barn. Maybe this coming week while I work on the barn, I can take some time out to put together the wood for the kitchen island and put a flat surface on it. I have got my head around what is required to do this job just well enough I think I can go on and do it. That would clean a huge bit of wood from the shop, and that alone would make it more than worth doing. I suspect the wood is more than dry enough by now, and certainly settled with the humidity.
I am feeling good about the woodshed right now. I have the corners morticed and temporarily pegged together. The permanent pegs will be the tenons on the bottoms of the posts. I have to cut in the mortices for the top beams before I can get the posts stood, and the tenons for the beams to hold them in place, proper. I also need to put in a couple of dovetailed floor joists across the center to keep the long run of the floor from spreading apart as the sills are joined in the middle because none of the wood was near the length required to make them up.
I have also got a signpost in mind to hold up the signs for the farm and or Antiquary Artisan. I think if I put in a fence post set in concrete then build basically the flagpole I saw on New Yankee Workshop, then bolt the metal sign hangers together through it. It doesn’t need to be terribly tall. Ten to 15 feet ought to be more than plenty. It will make the post square in shape rather than round. That suits just fine given the age I am going for in the decorating of the farm. I’d set the whole place up Colonial if possible.
So, it’s been a busy day, yet an easy day. Our grandson is here for the night, and we have been enjoying his company since he arrived this afternoon. A good day is always a little better with him by. He’s just off to bed now, and I need to wrap this up soon and get a shower.
Last thing: while cleaning in the shed today we found a few of the stained-glass tools and made the glass supply accessible. I want to get some practice in with that soon and add a little something to a wood project in the near future.
Goodnight!