I met the local Homeschool Moms group last week. I’m not fond of groups in general and ladies groups in particular, but I am new here and it is a way to find some community. It helps that I know one of them fairly well and have met another a few times over the last five years. At that meeting a field trip was set up for this morning – a trip to the wool mill in the next town. It was a very interesting morning. So neat to see how much things in textile manufactury have NOT changed over the centuries, despite advances in automation. It may be one machine now instead of 128 ladies at spinning wheels, but the process remains the same.

Someday, when money, time and storage space permit, I would love to go back to their shop. So many projects there, just waiting for hands to do them. Felting, spinning, mittens and slippers, braided rugs… but that is all for later. For now, we still have building to do.

I bought out the hardware store’s stock of Rockwool the other day. They only had 5 bags left, so I took it all. Insulation is hard to get since the hurricane, and I refuse to use the pink stuff. Icky.

So, as we did the dividing wall on the East last week, today we did the west wall, and wrapped around both corners also.

The insulation is meant for 16″ centers, and the studwall on the ends of the buildings are definitely not 16″ centers. They aren’t even uniform. Which means the typical way that Rockwool holds its place — compression –doesn’t function properly. So we added extra strapping to help hold it in place

We had one remaining piece of plywood that we had to get out of the way somehow. Getting it up into the loft would be very challenging, so we just nailed it to the wall. It would come down relatively easily if it proves to be needed in the future, and it’s not in the way now. Win-win.

We need a good 6 more bags of insulation, and I not certain when it will be back in stock. I must remember to ask about that.