Back to the barn roof.....

 7:33 am - Thursday - March 26th - TWW - 50° F, humidity 16%, cloud cover 5%, wind 4 mph out of the southeast.....mostly clear blue skies today with a forecast high of 81° F.  On this date in 2013 TLE and I were at Augusta National Golf Course....

....in Augusta, GA, the site of the annual Masters Golf Tournament.  We were there about 3 weeks before the annual event.  The view this morning....

We had two goals for Wednesday....try to raise he roof in the barn enough stop the rainwater from pooling, and then leaking through the roof, and then tighten down all of the sheet metal screws affixing the metal roof panels to the rafters.  We spent the better part of 3 hours raising different sections of the roof, then spraying water on the roof to see if it still pooled, or ran off the roof as it should, and finally decided to raise the main load bearing beam at the mid point (two 2 x 10's bolted together) an inch, then place a 4 x 6 beam under it....

There is a large steel plate under the base of the post 

which will prevent it from sinking into the dirt

....that seemed to provide the best results.....water still pools a little bit, but mostly runs off the end of the roof now.  It doesn't pool enough to leak much.  Then Charles and I spent another hour tightening ALL of the sheet metal screws on the roof of which there must have been several hundred.  Next week when Charles and Phyllis return we'll reseal all of the seams, and all of screws with clear silicone  (GE).  We may still have a few small leaks here and there, but nothing like we've been dealing with the last two winters.

It was around 1 pm when we finished giving us a good four hour work day in which we got a lot done.  Now that we've eliminated the preponderance of the leaks, we can begin to store stuff inside the barn.

We convened for our usual communal dinner around 4 pm.  Phyllis prepared wonderful hot pastrami sandwiches which were enjoyed by all.  Around 6:30 pm (sun sets at 6:50 pm now) on the 'sunset fire deck' (no fire this night....too warm still)....

.....there were a lot of contrails.  We will be leaving shortly (Thursday) for Yuma, AZ, and our semi annual dental checkups, so I'll end this missive now wishing ya'll a great day, thanking you once again for stopping by!