Well, Mark did make it home yesterday by the time I got back from work. But I’m not going to count yesterday as his first day home. They had two Coast Guard inspections and a rig move in the last two days before they left the rig and he got maybe a few hours of sleep those last couple nights. Needless to say, he was not his usual, cheery self when he came in! In fact, he actually went to bed before the news! (Made me wonder if it was really Mark at all! Miss the news?? My God!)
Anyway, when I hit the sack it was near midnight, so I decided to retire to the sleeping porch instead of disturbing him. And a good thing I did, too! Check out the bed this morning!
Don't know if I could have won the battle with such a big guy for possession of my half of the covers!
Actually, it was no real sacrifice on my part anyway. The weather has warmed up enough that there are lots of wonderful frogs and crickets and various wildlife sounds outside that I LOVE to hear as I drift off. As a matter of fact, I sleep out there EVERY night when Mark is gone -- even when it's 20 degrees! I absolutely LOVE my porch! I have a heated mattress pad on the bed, followed by the twin fitted sheet, then a king-size top sheet, a king size down comforter (if I turn over, I don’t want to end up with my butt sticking out into 20 degree temperatures!), then another comforter for weight (I love sleeping under heavy blankets), followed by an old king-sized dog comforter on top (in case Gracie decides to recline on my bed instead of hers after tromping around in the wet grass). All in all, it’s a VERY comfortable set-up.
It’s going to be even better once the barn is done and the horses come home because, as you can see, it will have a wonderful view of the barn and pastures.
I don't know if you can see it very well in this picture, but the barn is going to have a wrap-around porch just like my sleeping porch on two sides of it. We're going to store hay out there with some canvas roll-up shades to protect it when it storms. The normal-size door on the right side in the picture goes into the tack/feed room. The very tall door to the left is one entrance into one of the stalls (both back stalls have two doors. The front one next to the tack room will have only one because the other side of that stall will face the front porch, not a paddock. Okay, maybe none of that is very clear from this one picture, but it's going to be a FINE barn for aging equestrians because it won't be necessary to haul anything very far. I'll post more pictures of the place later when we get the porch done and the metal roof on the barn and porch.
What appears to be white paint on the barn - well, I guess it actually IS white paint - but it also contains little reflective beads developed by NASA that reflect heat and insulate. We sprayed the entire interior, as well as the outside of the roof and the eaves. (That would be the "royal 'we'" since Mark and Jerry are actually the ones who did the spraying.) Anyway, I'm hoping it will help keep the barn cool in summer without actually having to put in insulation or close the place up. We'll see. If it works as well as they say it does, maybe we'll spray it on the attic ceiling in the house later. It's also supposed to be good for keeping water lines from freezing so it wouldn't hurt to paint the water lines that run through the roof of the porch either. (Mark is no doubt cringing as he reads this at the idea of still MORE stuff on his "honey-do" list.)
What appears to be white paint on the barn - well, I guess it actually IS white paint - but it also contains little reflective beads developed by NASA that reflect heat and insulate. We sprayed the entire interior, as well as the outside of the roof and the eaves. (That would be the "royal 'we'" since Mark and Jerry are actually the ones who did the spraying.) Anyway, I'm hoping it will help keep the barn cool in summer without actually having to put in insulation or close the place up. We'll see. If it works as well as they say it does, maybe we'll spray it on the attic ceiling in the house later. It's also supposed to be good for keeping water lines from freezing so it wouldn't hurt to paint the water lines that run through the roof of the porch either. (Mark is no doubt cringing as he reads this at the idea of still MORE stuff on his "honey-do" list.)
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I like the Buddha.
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