Roller Coaster

It is a challenge not to check email often to see if there are new pledges.  When there is a message from Kickstarter it is like Christmas morning.  Woohoo someone sees the potential of the project.

Throughout this barn saga we have approached it with a positive perspective...if it is meant to happen everything will fall into place. The perspective may sound fatalistic but it does not mean we are sitting back and letting the pieces simply fall where they may.   We are actively working to save the barn.  Some may not have thought to see if insurance would cover damage to the building but our perspective was it does not hurt to ask.  When we submitted the barn grant at the beginning of November we were uncertain what would result from the discussions of the timber framers and the insurance company but the grant was written, a budget put together and 20 pictures of the barn were selected to tell the story.

When we were awarded the barn grant at the end of February we saw that as a positive sign even though we did not know how the rest of it would work out.  I discovered Kickstarter at about the same time the grant letter came and thought maybe this really is supposed to happen.

While working outside this week it was been a roller coaster of emotions.  I look at the barn with it's incredible size and know it's potential but I also know that it's a looong way from actually being ready to happen.  As I climb over the pig pens that expanded from Sparkler's first pen to be an area then now incorporates the dirt filled concrete gutters to be large enough for the all the sows and piglets I can imagine a neat row of adjoining pens built along the back wall.

As I planted in the garden I wondered if the weeds would overtake the garden as summer would be spent working on the barn.  Every time I walk into the upper level I think of what will stay and what will go and where will it go while the barn is down for repairs.  There are still so many questions to find answers to but the first one is "Does the community at large believe saving the barn is a worthwhile endeavor?". Only time will tell....