We plucked up courage today and went into our barn to see the damage that happened while we have been in the UK. We were told a beam had come down but oh my goodness, what a mess, where on earth do we start. The beam is HUGE and we were so lucky that it missed our sit-on mower and various other bits and pieces in there. We had to go in because when my dad was over here a couple of years ago, my dad and Richard moved all his tools and benches into that barn and made it into a wonderful workshop. Since we have been back this time, Richard has wanted to do various little jobs and of course, he has no tools that he can find so we had to brave it and go in.
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Where the beam had rotted and snapped
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| What a mess, where do we start |
We are so lucky to have such wonderful friends and neighbours around us and 2 of them, Paul and Ester came round today and helped Richard clear out a lot of the rubbish that had come down from the first floor and also make safe the beam. We are now able to get at the mower and this is used all the time with the trailer to get rid of rubbish etc. I think there may be quite a few trips down to the tip in the next few weeks. To be honest we had never been up onto the first floor of the barn so had no idea just how much rubbish was up there. So much straw so very, very dusty and an awful lot of other junk. Just our luck though, nothing worth anything. Why do other people find "stuff" that's worth hundreds of pounds?? Wouldn't it be good to have a lot of money, if we did, we would fly our son-in-laws out and some friends who are fit and strong and get this barn into shape in no time; that's if they were willing of course. Ho hum, there you go
Last photo is of the peanut butter cookies I made for us all to have with a well earned cup of tea. An industrious day and probably the busiest one we have had since we have been back. Poor Richard is rather tired, but the trouble is, being back here there is such a lot to do and he is like a pig in muck when he is doing something. Still, slowly slowly.............
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| Mmmmm..Yummy |
Take care one and all, keep warm. We were lucky today and were able to be outside in t-shirts. Long may it last.
Oh by the way, we caught a mouse in the bedroom last night so that's another one. I wonder how many more of the little blighters there are.
1 comment:
Sorry to hear about the barn beam. Good to hear there wasn't much peripheral damage to equipment.
Now as to your second mouse. Just hope you have not captured Mom & Dad who left a large baby brood hiding somewhere, yuck!
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