As with many people who buy an old house or farm, we seem to have a limitless number of projects to be done at all times of the day and year. One of our tasks is to make the barn a bit more organized and at least to the point that we can walk around in there without risk of tripping over tons of stuff. That is going to require that we do a lot of shifting things from A to B and then probably back again…or even to C…and it will also mean a few more trash containers are headed our way which I am kinda looking forward to. There’s something about being able to throw anything you want into a huge trash container at any time of day. Your own personal dump almost, which can be hauled off whenever you’re ready. Fantastic!:)

This picture above is one of the stacks of excess wood, beams and so on that we’ve found here, there and everywhere. You can see we’ve got the railing from the front porch as well as the stair railing….and some lovely wooden molding like that below.

I have no clue what we’re going to use it for yet but it’s definitely not getting trashed. I WILL come up with something.

Here is the workshop in the barn. As you can see above the workbench and all the shelves, there are stacks of pieces of wood, furniture and who knows what else. Some of the scraps are particle board so most of that will get trashed. But some of the other things up there are shutters, furniture legs, decorative pieces and other things which would have made a carpenter’s life more simple to have on hand. We’re far from carpenters but perhaps someday we’ll hone our woodworking skills enough to make some use of these things.

The corner you see above will be cleaned out as much as possible and then we will move the taller pieces we are keeping from the pictures at the top into this corner. There they will be out of the way until we have a use for them.