In addition to working on sorghum when my brother was here a  couple of weeks ago, we worked some on the deluxe shed.  If you ever looked at some of the old pics, you might have noticed the big space above the door where we didn’t put siding.  We left a gap where we planned to eventually tie in the porch roof to the house.

That tie-in finally happened!  It took a tremendous amount of work, a lack of good sense and a little liquid courage but we raised a beam on which the roof rafters would rest.  Once that was done, it was all down hill.  I ended up buying 12′ long boards for the horizontal boards that came straight out from the house.  The angled boards that form the slope of the roof were 16′ long though I really only needed to span 14′.  Unfortunately, our big box home improvement stores don’t sell 14′ boards.

Anyhow, all of that is to say, we got big boards and they were heavy so I am glad my brother was here to help.  I ended up getting treated lumber because I could find it (sometimes stuff is hard to find in a big box store…including helpers who know where all the things are located) and because it was only a few dollars more expensive overall.  Treated lumber is almost always wet from the treatment process so weighs a lot more than typical boards.  Did I mention stuff was heavy and that I was glad my brother was here to help?

So, we got the basic frame up and, one of these days, we will add sheathing and tar paper and metal to finish this thing off.  I am mostly excited because I think it makes sense why we left the gap in the siding now.  I know people who live up by our place think I am crazy but at least this one weird thing now (hopefully) has an explanation!  I just need to connect the decks and I think that will button up a lot of the remaining questions!