Little shed

I could tell ya all about the machine shed my husband and his crew built December 16 2012 because I wanted to blog about it in the order it came up on our farmyard.

BUT I really want to blog about the project I am recently working on.
So May 16th (2013) we went to pick up this little number! A gift from my grandma along with my great great great grandmas cook stove which has been passed down.

It took the whole evening to load. We only got home at 1:00 am in the morning. The telehandler forks were not long enough, and we tried all sorts of different ways to load it. First we put a tarp strap around, that didn't work. The shed was to top heavy. Then we tried lengthening the forks with flat steel piping, then blocking it up, that didn't work, and as a result we cracked the floor joists off so needless to say there are some broken floor boards where the forks went through. Finally, we were able to block it up high enough to get the forks underneath and lifted one end up high enough that we could back the trailer underneath it. We let the end down and pushed it the rest of the way onto the trailer. Then I lifted Stuart with the telehandler to put the strap on and we began our journey home.

To unload that's another story!

It rained that night so there was no moving the future summer kitchen till the ground dried. Out here its pure clay. This is how your boots look after you've walked from the garden to the house, which is a shop.

We waited till Monday and the work began. We built a brace to hold the one side up and used the telehandler to hold the other side up like this.

We were able to drive the trailer out from underneath replace floor joists, and lower one side down, remove the brace and lower the other side down. Never knew a 10x15  shed could be so much work! I am so thankful for a patient husband or this would have never happened! Supporting me in creating a yard I love even if he doesn't see the point. I really love old things, antique things, and just plain old fashion things. He's a carpenter, he would prefer to build new, but he does it for me and I love him for it. He said, "now you have a summer project." :) It went from this:

(Trust me it was worse. This is after I swept and cleaned everything out, pulled out all the nails and removed the floor boards.) To this:

Thanks to my little sis who helped me paint the walls.The small cupboard came with the summer kitchen. It had been redone with paneling so I picked it all off scraped and sanded it down and white washed it.

The big cupboard I picked up on June 4th (2013) from the antique shop in Carberry. The windows are still broken and the birds have started making a nest on the window pane. (I will find the exact size of window somewhere yet. Anyway, I'm so excited about putting the stove in! Nothing tastes better than fresh cinnamon buns baked in it. An electric stove just doesn't bake the same. I will keep ya all posted.