A Plump Wife and A Big Barn

"A Plump Wife and Big Barn Ne'r did any Man Harm!"

Previously posted at my old blog in January 2008 - (I warned you all I would be posting backwards since I started this blog way late into the journey!)

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Jan 2008 -- I am starting to look at trees in a new light! Trees have always just been trees to me and not something spectacular though if I had stopped to think about it -- they are a wonderful creation of God for our world.
Now trees are very special to us as they are providing the siding and interior for our new home. My husband purchased a TIMBERKING sawmill back before the year's end and I am thrilled to say it arrived in one safe BIG piece and is now all set up in our big barn!

The house was completed to be IN THE DRY before the fellas began the hunting season in earnest.  It sat patiently waiting some more work all these autumn months and I am thrilled that work is once again humming right along every spare minute on the HOUSE.
The sawmill is proving to be a huge blessing.  We have a TIMBERKING 1220 (inquring minds want to know!)  You can view one if you have an interest in sawmills at http://www.timberking.com/

It is a 2 man job but we have been blessed with such wonderful helpers -- our boys!! -- so with my CARPENTER and just one 'bigsize' boy they can cut about 100 boards a day.  This is a full day's work of course and so this only gets accomplished on his day's off from the work at Organize It. 
The house 'in the dry' has become the new storage area for drying the plank boards.  The rooms are filling up fast!  The planks will take about 3 months to cure and dry and then hopefully we can start seeing some boards go up as exterior siding!  Whooohooo!
It has been thrilling to have calls coming in from all over -- "hey! we have trees we need removed or cut - come and get em!"  So far we haven't had to pay for a tree yet, but have been able to salvage from power line areas being cleared, land being cleared for construction etc.  Each tree of nice size yeilds up to 30-50 boards so you can see why I am starting to LUV TREES:)
I have patterns for porch furniture ready for the boys to begin building me some adirondack chairs, rockers and swings as soon as Spring rolls around.  We have huge 10 ft wide porches that wrap the entire 4 sides of the house so lots to build boys!  Can't wait! for a handmade rocker by my boys from wood my husband cut and made on the sawmill...that will be GENUINE HOMEMADE stuff, eh? (This has yet to come to pass - the job for the summer of 2011 is to finish the wrap porches and fill them with rockers!)