Twisp of Fate

So we decided to move the two woodsheds that Rick built late last fall, mainly to get them farther away from the house and propane tank (for fire safety reasons) but also because we thought they would look better in that location from the house and the road, and to allow for an easier way to drive all around the house.

Rick built them as free-standing structures, but they are heavy.  What to do?  Last week he inquired down at Methow Valley Lumber about their boom truck.  Expensive and maybe hard to get into the back yard to even do it.  But Larry suggested we just get “peeler logs” which are used for fence posts, and roll it on those.  That’s how the Egyptians did it, says he.

Rick actually moved the first one last week all by himself.  Worked like a charm!  But the other one was partially filled with firewood, so this morning we transferred all that wood to the one in the new location, commingling it with some of the two cords of fir that we had delivered about a month ago.  Then we moved the second shed.  It was kind of fun and so much easier than I would have thought.  Alright, I actually did help – just not when I was taking the pictures!