Summer Kitchen Chimney Coming Down Video March 23, 2012

This is the video of the chimney coming down.

Summer Kitchen What is This?

In the storage space on the boards sitting on the ceiling rafters, Jason Travis found this item. I have no idea what it is. If you do, let me know. I will also post it to Facebook. Addendum: My friend, Lynne Thompson found a photo of one of these. It is a washing machine. We are having it restored!

Summer Kitchen a Week Later

A week after the restoration started we have made it this far: The floor boards have been jacked up and stabilized, all of the clapboard is off, the chimney is down, the interior and exterior have been pressure washed to remove the remaining paint, the upstairs storage space has been emptied, next entry will show what we found there (a prize to whomever correctly identifies the item), the walls have been as squared as much as possible, squaring has started on the front door, and general pick-up around the site. We have decided to move the boards that were sitting on the ceiling rafters to the far left end of the kitchen to make a loft of sorts that will be accessed via a ladder attached to the wall through a hole in the boards. The boards were not nailed to the rafters, so I think they were added as some later point for storage and moving them will be easy. I am still trying to decide what to do with the roof. The David Travis crew have been great, show up on time, do a great day's work and seem to enjoy talking about the project.

Restoring the Summer Kitchen

Restoration has started today on the Summer Kitchen. David Travis and his crew are doing the work. Here are the first photos. It is expected to take about a month.

The logs are so fascinating, have never seen them before today as they were covered with clapboard. We are saving the clapboard to be used inside. I didn't even realize that there is a loft in the building. The young men who started the work have discovered some things that look like a churn and maybe a crock up there. As they take out the "ceiling" which is the loft floor, we will see what discoveries unfold. So far they have discovered a broken piece of china from Vienna, Austria! We are saving all the things that we find, even broken china.

Dusk Photos

These are some photos that I took yesterday from various views of the farm. It was dusk. The building is the Saddlebag House from the back.