05/17/2026
The barn saga continued...
I last posted about the barn project in mid-November, as we were waiting to hear from the barn company when the rest of the barn would show up. While speaking with them, it turns out they had "found" two whole coils of the Sierra Green metal I had been told was not available earlier in the year. To make up for the delay, they would replace the red sheets they had delivered with the green I had originally wanted. It was going to cost us extra to have the red endwall taken down and replaced, but when we are talking about years and years of having the color I originally wanted, it seemed worth it. A new delivery date of just before Thanksgiving was set.
We got the delivery, and when my contractor went through the packages of metal, we had been delivered exactly the same pieces as we already had in red, but this time in green. So one and one third end walls, zero sidewalls. How fun!
We went around and around again with the company, and got a date in late January when the metal would be ready. This time, my contractor was going to go pick the metal up to save some time. The front office and the back lot of the metal place hadn't talked with each other, so he was told that there wasn't anything for him to pick up. Some frantic phone calls and it turned out the order was ready after all. Phew! We finally had all the metal for the project a mere five and a half months after it was all supposed to be delivered.
Of course our incredibly patient contractor had had to schedule other projects in the meantime because he didn't know when he would actually have all of the parts of the barn, so it took a bit for him to get back to working on it. We are now getting closer and closer to having a barn, and who knows, by the time kidding season is over, it might be ready to use 🙃
