Well, hello once again. Usually I like to say, from bright, sunny, Montana, but today is kind of
overcast. We're calling for 85 to 90 percent chance of rain. Clouds are, yeah, clouds are what clouds are, huh?
We could get rained out here, who knows. In the background of some previous videos, when I've been
out here at our place, you've probably noticed I have ties set on both sides of my pole barn.
This pole barn is a what, 20' by 28', not super big, but I'd like to put some wings on both sides so I can put
some of my equipment underneath some cover. So I set these ties two summers ago, this will be the
third summer. I did shoot in the bottom of these walls with a laser level a couple of summers ago,
maybe it was last summer, and yeah, as time slips way, but my goal is to get these
framed in a little bit. Now I've got some two by six, 24 inch material here, and I actually bought
this from a lumber yard in Laurel, probably five, six, seven, years ago. Let's see, I did borax six years ago;
it's probably been seven or eight years ago. And I bought them for firewood, two by six by twenty four.
They're actually made for stair treads for trailer houses. Anyway, I bought it for firewood. I never
did use all of them. So I need a bunch of uprights for my walls. I'm going to come up every 24 inches,
and have a two by six on edge. Well I need these two by six spacers in between, and
they all need to be 22 and a half inches. So I'm going to take these 24 inch, two by sixes,
and trim them all down to 22 and a half. If my calculations are right, I need 90 of them, and I
think I have well over a hundred here. So some of these I'll probably sort through, set aside,
see if I can come up with 90 good ones, and then go back through your second sort, of course,
if I run short. So as you know, if you've been following along, I don't have any power out here, so
the noise in the background is my generator to run my chop saw. So I'm going to just clean up one end.
You remember that song we used to sing as children, 99 bottles of beer on the wall,
99 bottles of beer, take one down, pass it around,
98 bottles of beer on the wall. Well, I've got to do this 87 more times.
Probably cull a few as I go together.
That'll give me 93. Probably still got 50 of them left.
Well, the rain can't make up it's mind. I put tools away, and then it
quit, so I brought them back out and it started a little bit.
It's not really getting serious. Just kind of spitting. Right now it's not doing much of anything.
Hard ties they don't like nails sometimes.
95 and a quarter.
Well, it's trying to rain on us again here.
Well, this might be it. I don't know. It's really starting to come in.
I'll show you out over the valley. The valley's getting socked in a little more and more. I don't know.
Maybe I'll try one more rail. I made it further than I thought I was going to make it.
Well, the wind's starting to pick up too, so it just feels like things are going to move in.
So I think I'll shut things down, and put things away. I won't worry about the third tier up yet.
Maybe when we got a little better day. appreciate you following along.
Well it's ended up being kind of a nice steady little rain.
Not really going to amount to a whole lot I don't think.
Enough to put me out of commission,
So I'm just gonna sit here, eat some Wheat Thins,
and watch it rain.