I realize nobody cares about the Growlery except me...and Christy from next door. He comes over a couple of times a week to help me sit, pontificate and smoke cigars. Often he looks around and mumbles things like, "This place is just (bleeping) marvelous." He should know; he once owned it. I ended up with the building because Christy and Judy were adding an addition on their house and the storage shed was in the way. It wasn't much. It had a dirt floor, rotten windows and cobbled together shelving. One of his carpenters likened to something that looked like a kid's treehouse. He obviously was not a man of vision.
The first year I worked on squaring it up, pulling in the splayed corners and getting it onto a foundation and putting a floor in. The picture below is year two - insulation and electricity (dropcord through the window).
The pictures below are as of today. I have enough recycled cedar to side the exterior and I really would like a small garden storage shed off the lake side and a cupola with a wind vane, etc, etc. I would estimate I'm only about half done with the project.
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4 comments:
Way cool!
When can you build one for me in my back yard?
Marv, I think you like the concept of "sitting"; it is the actual execution you have difficulties with. ;-)
Your only mistake is in the first line... I am absolutely fascinated with the Growlery, want to construct one of my own someday down the line, and would enjoy nothing but having a sit in there one day to admire what you've done with my old rooster!
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