With the first frost of the season last week the rush is on. Projects that I have been seriously slacking on will have to get done now or lie dormant all winter long. Two projects that absolutely need to be finished right away is putting in the wood furnace and cutting firewood. I have no cash for propane this winter and with no real job prospects on the horizon wood heat is the only option. I have plenty of dead wood to cut, lots of scrap wood from the fallen down barn to cut as well. A wood shed would be nice too, I might tear down some more of the mobile home to provide for said woodshed. I managed to get my old mobile home jacked up, it'll probably get moved Sunday. If I can sell it that might provide me with some much needed dough to keep going through the winter along with a bunch of logs I cut down.
Another project I would love to finish would be the garage. I cleaned off the cement slab which was a big job in and of itself. I have a whole ton of old telephone poles around the property that were used for various buildings/windbreaks. More than enough to build me a pole style garage. The tricky part will be covering the thing and the roof. Might have to be on the hunt for more tin for the roof, the walls I might try to cover with a combination of slab wood and planking.
My job is winding down, down to one truck to unload on Saturday nights. In some ways I wish it was done with already, from my rough calculations I would be farther ahead collecting unemployment than going into work. Also with last week's silo fiasco at the receiving plant the creamery's future is in jeopardy. Seems now with the milk glut no one wants low quality can milk anymore. There may not be a buyer for the milk. No buyer = no job. I read in the paper how the unemployment rate is going down where I live, I can say beyond a doubt it is going down for only two reasons. One is most people who can't find a job move to somewhere they can, two most people already exhausted their unemployment benefits. It sure ain't going down because of new jobs. This is all the more reason to motivate me to finish cleaning up the scrap steal around my place. Fall and winter are usually bad times for work anyway.
As you may have noticed there have been fewer pictures of my progress around here, rest assured it isn't because progress has been slow more like I haven't had a working digital camera. That to is yet another project. Words can only describe so much. Fortunately all that requires is a different non scratched cover for my cell phone.
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