Daryl and I have been working every night on our cattle shed this week and if I must say so myself – it’s looking pretty darn good. I usually do the measuring on the bottom part of the tin by the old roof line and he puts in most of the screws to hold it in place on the 2×4’s. Now you would think that I’d have the easy job but when I showed up without my glasses – yea.. not so easy! But I only did that Monday night and tonight -well I’m soooo much smarter! When I’m trying to measure tenths of an inch of the tin while standing in the tractor bucket and being eaten alive by gnats… the last thing that I need to be is almost blind. So what an easy fix it was just to get my glasses. Now I really hate this getting old crap. Since when did ‘I’ have to wear them when I’m doing almost everything? Well I guess the answer is this year. OK, enough whining about that and getting back to the tin roof. It’s really looking good and even though tin is expensive, it’s really saving the cattle shed. We have a pretty good process down and once the tin is waiting to be placed on the roof, I climb back up the ladder and get into the tractor bucket to help place the tin. I was just bragging to Daryl on how lucky he was to have me helping him. You know.. good help and good looks! How could it go wrong? Well I was screwing in the hardware down by the roof line and missed the whole 2×4. That’s how it could go wrong. I kept my opinions to myself after that. 
For some reason lately it seems like I’ve been in that tractor bucket a lot. Anyway, I have to use the ladder to get to the bucket and I told Daryl that it felt good to use the ladder again. I mean I was using it every day for months when I was painting the farm and it just felt good tonight. Yup, pretty sure he didn’t get what I was feeling. He gave me one of ‘those looks’ and just kept his head down and kept working. Well, it did feel good again.
So after about 9 pieces of tin we decided to call it a night. It was a good days work done. I think we’ll have two more nights to put up the roof tin and then there are some cap stuff Daryl’s been talking about that has to go on the top.
With getting done late, there was no chance for me to get in my running so what did I do? Well I grabbed a beer and sat on the porch swing just listening to the crickets in the lawn, the windmill creaking, cattle in the yard, and having the little kitties thinking that my legs are climbing posts. But as I was sitting on the porch I realized just how much I love our farm and wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. Well my beer was done and I was getting tired by now of the dogs just having to be right in my face, so I decided to head inside. Out of the corner of my eye the sunset caught my attention. Now I took a picture of it and you’re going to think that I did something to it to make it look so red. But honestly, I have not done a thing. So this is the photo of the day – check it out:
Sunset tonight over the corn field