Pole Barn Construction

Thursday afternoon four men came and augered holes for the pole barn poles. Friday morning a truck delivered a pile of materials. Friday afternoon the four men returned and began arranging pieces of metal siding around the building pad.

Dennis came home mid-afternoon to see what was happening. Our neighbor Al and his corgis stopped by, too. The poles were up and the big holes filled with dirt around them.

Next, up went the walls.

After the crew left for the day, I went back to check their progress. These guys are fast.

The big empty space will be filled with an overhead door. That's where our pick-up will be parked. Another overhead door on the south side will accommodate parking of mower and tiller. A person door will give access to a potting/garden tool area with a window. The building is just 24' x 24'.

Except for pouring the concrete floor, the pole barn will be finished on Monday. We're pretty excited.

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.