It really does take a village sometimes…. last Saturday we gathered a crew of seven folks – one a framer, carpenter, and home builder by trade with 40+ years of experience, three college graduates, and three tradespersons with specialties not in building but large on the muscle side. We managed to get the trusses up and set in four hours, had lunch and got all of the 24″ eaves done and everything cleaned up by 4pm. It was quite amazing! It was a good thing, because we got several deluges on Sunday, amongst some fairly decent downpours. A roof will be soon in coming as I should have a few…

So there’s been a lot of change at the Robieman Funny Farm and Menagerie(TM pending) in the past eight months. We decided summer of 2021 it was time to sell our house (first home) and move to ‘greener pastures’ – i.e. out of the west side of Columbus where we’d called home for the past 16 years. With housing demand at an all time high and the areas we wanted to move to that made sense for our work and family commutes, it was going to be a stressful time. We put on our big girl pants and started packing, getting rid of things where it made sense, and found…

Back in June 2021, my wife turned and said, “We need to move.” Without any backstory of what had transpired in the past two years of our journey, this would seem absurd. I nodded my head, and said “Ok. When?” We had our home (along with my not quite settled in shop) sold by November. We were lucky and graced with finding a new home in this crazy market and moved in the middle of December. Unfortunately, there is no shop. The garage only has one circuit and is currently housing our two deep freezers. I was given a budget and the go ahead to build another shop, but sadly…