A line is crossed

It rained this morning just before six o'clock. Adam told me he woke up with the rain - he's been a bit concerned about the fragility of the wall around the barn door where the stones have been removed from the A frame holding up the roof. The stones in the wall are held together by clay (this was used before lime was in general use) and heavy rain could wash out the clay making the wall more unstable. So heavy rain could be very bad news.

There was an important day in the potager - in early April I think - when a line was crossed and a long period of putting things into the potager (time, effort, seeds .....) transformed as the potager produced its first crop.

We crossed a similar line today in the barn as two weeks of ripping things out of the barn changed and we put something back into the building for the first time. Barbara was on mixer duties for the lime mortar that Adam used to reconstruct the stone wall around the new steel beam, this secures the wall and makes the structure less fragile. A big milestone.

I also picked up the new lintel for the repair of the eroded lintel we'd cut back above the barn door - 200kg of solid seasoned oak cut to size by Soulaine in Questembert. Tomorrow we have to work out how to lift it up .......