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Farm Journal

Thoughts and images from life at Foster Road

 

Entry: January 10, 2010

 

Garage Part II

Lot’s of time away from this effort, my apologies to anyone who cares about the lapse. Fits and starts for weeks—the cold, the bank, and illness (not my own) slowing things down. But progress nonetheless.

I’ll try to prime the pump, so to speak, with this recap and hope to get back on my self-imposed track. But it’s like trying to catch up with a friend who has been gone longer than usual. Too much has happened to catch up on the day-to-day, so the highlights must awkwardly suffice.

 

The garage construction has been the main event and it’s a wonderful space. The crew finished the framing just in time for the scheduled garage door installation. The door went in with a last-minute run to the hardware store and it was a trill to open the door with my new remote. Okay sure, half the homes in America have a garage door opener, but this is my first. My home in the city had separate garage that I used as an enormous garden shed.

 

The garage is sided in board and batten hemlock that Clark had milled especially for this project. He tells me that hemlock wood gets harder with age until it’s almost impossible to drive a nail through it. Two of the windows came with me from the city, they were cast-offs from a remodeling project there, but I’d kept them hoping I could find a use for them someday. And here they work just fine, single pane yes, but the four lites of vintage wavery glass helps settle the spankin’ new garage into my history.