Before & After

This is a picture of the 110-year-old bunkhouse that the old ranch-hands used to stay in on my family's ranch.

Although it snowed about 10 centimeters last Monday, all of the snow was gone by Wednesday, and it has been sunny & warm, but very windy.

As you can see, the bunkhouse was not in good condition.  This past week, my parents decided that they want to build a storage space and greenhouse in this location.  So, I've spent most of my time helping my dad tear down the old bunkhouse.  

We took each log off one by one, then removed about a bazillion nails from each log.  We carried the logs to a trailer and loaded it up, then drove the trailer to the place where we keep firewood and other old scraps of wood.  Once again, we had to lift the heavy logs off of the trailer, and stack them neatly.  It has been a lot of hard, sweaty, painful work, but it has been a lot of fun!

Now the old bunkhouse is gone.  All that's left to do is burn the old sleeper logs (the logs that were under the bunkhouse) and flatten the area so that we can start building the new structure.  I hope we can finish the project before I leave for Hawaii.  I really enjoy building stuff!

I've also been helping my mom in the kitchen.  I've made a lot of meals, and I baked muffins, 2 loaves of bread, and a lot of cookies (and I've eaten most of what I've cooked).

I should have taken a "before" picture of me, too...