House wrap

Some day I may want some heat in the shed.  So the trick to keeping the wind from finding its way through the cracks and crevices is to wrap up the building with "House Wrap".  It's pretty cool stuff;  comes, in this case, in a 9 foot wide roll 150 feet long.  That's plenty to wrap the top level and the bottom, and still have room for error. 

After the snow melted away and it got a bit warmer, it was time to wrap.  They say you can do a lot alone, but house wrap is one thing you need help with.  So I recruited help -- Carly and her beau helped.  We wrapped the lower level.    It went up fine, with a minimum of wrinkles.  

The lower course is the easy one.  The top level will be much tricker.  It's so high and the house wrap is slippery so ladders tend to slide.

A roof is not enough!

I was quite proud to get the roof finished before the "blizzard" last week.  Six inches of snow, and the wind was blowing like crazy.  The landscape was beautiful, and while hiking to the cabin all looked good.  Deer tracks all around;  curious, they often like to follow the road.  

So no snow came in from above, but the winds were so great that inside the cabin most of the floor was covered with snow - some places 3 inches deep.  Sweeping out snow was one maintenance activity I hadn't anticipated.