5-5-2026

    Well we have reached yard work season and as you all know I have been building flower beds...once flowers sprout I'll share some pics of them.  Yard work season also means I start working on the shop again!

    I finally got the rear gable closed last weekend.

    This previous weekend I added fascia and the track to hold the soffit.

    I have no idea why some of the pictures loaded sideways 🙄

    The next step will be brush removal from the other end of what will be the shop, and from an area directly behind it that will cause me issues soon.  Once the brush is removed then I can begin demolishing the remaining portion of the original construction.

    Like the previous build, I will be building up the concrete foundation to raise the walls above grade.  With any luck I should have the shell under roof by winter.

I get asked occasionally why I don't film the construction, and the answer is somewhat complicated:

• My work on the shop is weather dependent, meaning I can't set a shooting schedule let alone an upload schedule
• Setting up a video camera that will get the work in the shot is not always possible for me.
• A lot of mistakes get made and with them a lot of...flowery language is used
• Cost of material also creates issues as sometimes the money just isn't available (remember I am self funded and I have other bills too)
• I have a day job so some work is squeezed into evenings or a weekend day (two if I am lucky) 

    Once the shop is up I should be able to work the kinks out of these issues and start videography on a regular schedule--though stills may be uploaded here before the video drops.  As my bio says I do my own cinematography, video editing, stunts, etc I am just a one woman show. 

    For those that remember, we bought my son a house and had started work on it.  Due to it being constantly broken into we have been forced to sell it and rethink our options.

    Also, I may not be posting on Tik Tok as much or at all going forward.  They are using all videos to create Ai content and unless you pay an exorbitant fee per video views are being severely curtailed.  Thus it is not really worth it to post there anymore.  Videos will still drop on my YouTube, Clapper and Instagram so if you are not already subscribed please do as those subscriber numbers and views really do help push my content out.  It also helps push the algorithm if you like and comment.  Even just a "hello" pushes the the algorithm a bit.

    For now, that's it

Maura out 

 

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