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So we installed some pressure treated sill plates on our small shed on the side of the house

We decided to have it match our smokehouse on the other side of the home, so we framed up the walls

and threw in some cross bracing

we sheathed the outside with osb

and nailed down T&G 2x6 spruce for the roof decking

we decided to build out all the doors and windows with the T&G spruce as well, we mounted a barn track door on the shed

and hung the door, I hope to get this building finished off this weekend

we built a ladder and hung it from bolts to access the loft, I need to make a pulley system to raise it up into the floor joists

we finished shingling the walls and got them all stained up

the door for the barn was pretty hefty

so we mounted the rollers

and hung the door

we also mounted the access doors for the loft

and the side openings

last thing was to wrap the metal and make a cover for the barn door track

I think my wife is going to paint this weekend and at the point it is roughly done, i still have to do a finish coat on the inside walls but I think I am going to hold off on that for a little while so any moisture in the bags can escape through the gaps and such in the scratch coat, at this point that is the only real concern is if the bags haven't cured enough and there is freezing in the wall this winter

thank you gentleman

so my wife was getting chased by the bees we found in the compost bin, so I had to go down and finish the painting

we ordered some gutters to put on it, but besides that the barn is done

while I was doing that my wife was painting the shed

she decided she didn't like the gaps on the blocks, when we had built it when we had built the house we just threw our left over block together and filled the cores when we had filled the house walls, I raised it up a bit using 8 inch block and surface bonded them

I need to start buying stock in this stuff

so I let that set up overnight and today I should get it painted and shingled hopefully