Step Nine - Skip a week and a couple of posts...

So I took two days off from work last week - partly for my birthday, partly for de-stressing, partly so I could get several of the large jobs done on the boiler house/studio... I got one of them done...

Shing-a-ling! (Shingling the roof...)



To clarify a little - this is the view from the driveway - the street is to the left - the open door is the Banty Shanty, the closed door is the boiler house... The end (that you can't see - around to the right) with the windows is the studio - more on that in future posts, prolly...

I drove approximately 2,640 roofing nails into almost 700 shingles in about 14.5 hours. (Yes, drove - as in human powered hammer...) Very relaxing...

In case you ever want to know: Instructions

Now it's getting the last of the sheetrock stockpiled, insulating/rocking the ceiling, power supply, water supply, hook up the boiler and get it ready to fire off... That involves trenching, plumbing, wiring, a few blisters, maybe a high-voltage shock or two... (just kidding about the blisters)

See you next time...

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