I make things

It takes Kind Of Forever to cut. Also, it takes Kind Of Forever to sand, & I’m really just taking the roughest bits off, not really getting it smooth.

…okay I’m actually skipping the caulk jokes because I think y’all know them as well as I do by now. There were about two weeks where I really couldn’t work on the tinker’s wagon for a variety of reasons, most having to do with the weather, but last week I FINALLY got it moved to

I abjectly apologize for the post title.

After a long, lovely autumn without having to worry TOO much about things getting wet, it’s time for the winter precipitation.

Last Thursday I looked at the weather for the coming week, & realized I was in trouble. We’re supposed to get rain & snow here in the next couple days, & I haven’t got the roof on the tinker’s wagon yet. Fortunately I’m pretty close.

Y’all, I got SO MUCH done yesterday. The day before I left off because the next bit was gonna be tricky, & indeed it was. See above — I could’ve used one board all the way across, but as deeply as I’d’ve had to cut it, I decided to do that level in three pieces

I’ve mentioned the roof arches a bunch of times, at least on Twitter, & people are like, ‘huh?’. Above is a roof arch.

I kept not getting round to taking pictures while I was framing out the walls, partly because I was busy framing out the walls & partly because, well, framing is framing, it isn’t HARD, there are a zillion places online where you can read about how to do it … But then I thought, y’all