Elbow Room

We are busting out of our limited storage space. Only one car can be in the double garage. My potting bench takes up the other car space. The lawnmower and tiller are outside, covered with tarps. Tools are crammed into one side of the chicken house as well as in various garage spaces. The truck is parked by the wood pile in front of the house. You get the picture. Tacky.

We need a central place to keep the necessities of country life - truck, equipment, tools, potting stuff. Grant looked into various options. We finally contracted with an Esh builder to put a 24'X24' metal building in the southwest corner of the pasture. It hurt me to sacrifice part of the going-native area, but there's simply no where else to put an outbuilding.

Last Thursday a bulldozer built the gravel pad, driveway, and drainage channel. Construction of the building will begin in October. The building will be cream colored with antique red roof and trim.


This photo looks south toward the windbreak. The path from the house to the pasture passes through the red gate between two cedar trees. Only a few wildflowers were lost from this mostly grassy section. The grading stopped just short of where the best stands of grasses and forbs begins on the left.

Here's a link to the Esh website www.eshqs.com/. Our building will be much smaller than the ones on their homepage, but you can see the colors and type of construction.