January 2018...Taking a Walk, Planting Grass Seed and Putting Shingles on the Roof

Hello all.  I hope all of my followers had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  This is what Mike and I did last January.  I need to get caught up before 2018 is over, lol.

I love the trees and fields at the back of our property...and it is flat:)

Open area:

And:

OK...time for some work.   Mike is digging out some of the sand that is too high along the house so we can seed:

It's ready for seed:

And hay.  We can't find straw here but there is a ton of hay around:

Mike building a quick ramp out of leftover pressure treated wood to make it easy to go in and out of the "barn":

Almost finished:

Mike adds a dozen or so a day of truss clips on the inside of the barn as required:

Ugh...it's time for the uglies.  Her are our shingles:

The tractor is going to make this so much easier:

I'm on the roof.  Mike throws the shingle packs up to me and I spread them out on the roof:

Getting ready to start the first row:

Moving right along.  We have our system.  Mike nails the shingles down using a roofing coil gun while I line the shingles up:

Halfway there:

Sadly I have been slacking in the camera department.  As I look back I cannot find a picture of the other side completed.  Anyway it took us 3 days to shingle the entire roof.


Our lovely barn/workshop inside.  Mike is working on a well house and this is the cover:

More seed and hay where the electric company left their mess.  I wish I could bill them, lol.

Working on the drip edge on the peak:

And the sides:

Mike's new well house:

Other peak.  I hate being on a ladder that high.  I'm glad Mike has good balance:

Murphy's Law....put seed down and the turkeys will come, lol.

I love winters in Florida:):)

That's all for now.  I will try and catch everyone up and get to our animals soon which is just fun.:)