Our shed project for Camp Kier is really coming along. We've had a half-dozen or so build sessions since I've last written, and the shed itself is nearly finished. The walls are up, the siding is being put in place, and on Thursday, Kathleen, Liam, and I were tackling the roof. I'm not someone who is afraid of heights per se, but working on that roof sure was an experience. There were beams in place; our task was to put on the sheets of wood that would make the roof look like an actual roof, and that task consisted of sitting on top of a half-built, nauseatingly steeply-inclined roof while building the rest. And not always sitting; to get to the low points of the roof, we had to lie down on our stomachs to hammer in those nails. It was really exciting, to be honest; while sawing wood and measuring lengths had been a necessary part of a project that we were doing for a good cause, working on that roof felt like an experience in itself. Once the wood sheets on one side of the roof were in, we stapled on a black, tarp-like sheet, and then we attached plastic corners on either side of the roof to which the siding would connect to create that water-tight effect people look for in a shed. This process involved me shimmying across the beams of the unfinished half of the roof; on this side there were no wooden sheets at all, just the skeleton of rafters. I haven't brought my camera since the first day, so unfortunately I don't have any pictures to spice up this wall of text, but hopefully I'll be able to snap a few next session or the session after to display our finished product. We started shingling the roof last day; all that's left is to finish those and the siding, and our little shed will be complete!
