The smell of pine is in the air, as the boards go on the wall, one by one.  The transformation is amazing.  The ceiling is in, painted and the lighting is up.  My new front door is in and just waiting for an open sign.  J and M started putting up the tongue and groove …

Since I finished tearing out the insulation, changes have been happening very quickly at the shop.  J and M have rewired the whole building, replaced a few boards, pulled out the old windows, replaced the front ones with shiny, clean new ones and boarded the back wall up.  They have now started putting in new …

This past weekend I hit the turn-around point in the shop renovations.  I finished pulling out the rest of the insulation from the walls and J helped to remove a lot of the stuff that was still cluttering the floor.  He and a friend of ours has begun the rewiring, to be finished tomorrow.  Their …