Moving on up

The stairs went up today - and so did 62 sheets of subfloor, thanks to a rented scissor lift. Uncle Paul drove, while Charles, Ashley and I put boards onto the lift and then up on to the floor joists upstairs. Not a job for the faint-hearted or vertigo sufferers.

I then had to go to work for a couple of hours. One of our local doctors, Allen White, planted about 1,000 grape vines behind his office this year, and is looking at planting another couple thousand in a field not far from our own farm. He has some state cost-share funding to use and we discussed with him what we can do to help make his new vineyard successful. Dr White also said he would need to find an enologist before too long. I looked it up and that's a fancy word for winemaker. I can get a distance learning course out Rend Lake Community College in Illinois, so that may be a new project for next year. House first.