Re: [EVGRAY] The barn board going on

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RonYou sure have found Canada's banana belt, there in Victoria, a mere 4,000 miles from the frigid winds of Eastern Upper Canada.The wind is unrestricted blowing along the full length of Lake Ontario, and down the St. Lawrence River, trying to blow over the three foot thick stone walls of our house.Luckily, it has not shown much tendancy to be airborne for its 170 years.I now know why someone built barns from stone, given the state of the big post and beam barn, which started to inflate in zephyrs of 80km/hr this spring.I took it on myself to solve the problem of keeping it standing for another 170 years, just because, well, it was there.I didn't need to keep a herd of dairy cattle, store a thrashing machine, and fifty tons of hay, but was struck by the awesome magnificence of the interior space, after the claustraphobic confines of Toronto, except perhaps, those places where I worked, great empty enclosures, film studios, inside of which, could be the teeming market streets of downtown Hong Kong, or a week later, the scene of a battle between giant robots, and earth moving excavators, as far as the eye could see.Big spaces had magic for me, though I never ever imagined being able to own one, let alone, a variety of them. Best of all, one can see a vista in all directions, for miles around, following the movements of sun, and clouds, perched on high land, above the river valley, surrounded by mixed dairy farms, trees, and rolling hills.So side tracked from my energy experimenting by stone, and timber, becoming a stone mason, and wrangler of 20 foot long 8"x8" beams, up into the heavens, rebuilding Nineteenth century architecture, using a lithium powered 20 volt brushless DC screw gun, and high tensile, high tech torx screws, and steel brackets. It is almost finished, except for the roofers coming soon.I just couldn't let that expanse of South sloped roof go without solar panels, when I can afford them.I haven't addressed the 36' highX 20' diameter re-enforced concrete silo, but it is an amazing structure, in good shape, and thankfully, completely empty, unlike the hay lofts, when we moved in.But merely at the other end of Lake Ontario, this is a few climate zones cooler than Toronto, and much worse than winters in Victoria.Cheers Warren

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  On Sat, 10 Nov 2018 at 11:20 AM, [email protected] [EVGRAY]<[email protected]> wrote:       
Trust me on this, you need clothes in a Canadian Winter.


Warren you shouldn't speak for all Canucks. We had snow several days last winter but you have to get up early as it can be gone by noon. When the kids were young I would drive them up the Malahat so they could play in the snow,  (did that at least twice but makes a good story) LOL
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