Summer Schedule, Summer Projects

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Planting the summer garden will be finished soon, so once plants are growing, I’ll turn my attention to mulching. I’ll have harvest preservation later in the summer, so until then, I’m plugging away on the front bedroom, working my way through sorting a second round of boxes. I need to get it at least semi-organized before I put something on that big floor loom. I did a pretty hefty sort and purge last summer, when I moved my sewing and weaving stuff into my sewing room. But there was a lot of “undecideds” that seemed easier to set aside at the time. I’m going through those boxes now. That in turn, has me cleaning out our other storage spaces to reorganize and use the space better. Plus, we’re about at the end of our remodeling, so everything we saved for possible future projects (like the windows for the greenhouse) are no longer needed. So we have a lot of things to donate to Habitat for Humanity.

One of those storage spaces is our shed, which needs it’s foundation redone. Dan put it on pallets when we moved it to put up the clothesline, but these are beginning to rot so that it’s listing. Makes the floor mushy too.

So that’s something on Dan’s summer project list. Another project is doing something about the bare spot where he pulled out the crape myrtle beside the greenhouse. (You can see that action here). 

We removed it because it created inopportune shade. Last summer, it grew a mess of weeds, so this year he wants to put in another African keyhole garden. With the crepe myrtle was gone, this seemed like a good spot for it. 

My big outdoor project will be re-painting the barn. 

It was painted six years ago and so didn’t make its 10-year guarantee. What’s even more amazing, is that the paint on the chicken coop, which was built and painted four years before the barn, is still in good shape. Walls of both are plywood, but the chicken coop got oil based barn paint, while the goat barn got latex barn paint. 

The real disappointment is my barn quilt. It was painted with good quality exterior paint on Lowe’s best outdoor use plywood, but look at it. 

It’s screwed onto the barn doors, so likely it will just come down. Not sure about making another one at present. I’ll put that on my “someday” list.

You may have noticed that what isn’t on the project list is finishing the walls in the office and front bedroom. The construction part of these fall under Dan’s domain, and so I have to wait on his motivation. At any rate, we have plenty to keep us steadily busy this summer, weather permitting.

How about you? Do you have a seasonal project list? Care to share?