What did you do today?

[Charlie Horse]

I've been spending evenings working on removing the dirt roof of a fruit cellar that was built around 1959.  We had a soggy melt this spring and water dripped through the roof and got everything I had stored in there wet.  Now the mildew is raining down and the beams are showing huge cracks suddenly.  There's the main log beams with planking, a layer of newspaper, tar paper, clay, dirt and then a newer layer of black plastic sheeting and more dirt.   In some places this is all 10 inches thick so no wonder its collapsing.  I'm going to put a new more ordinary roof on it and use it as a garage and storage.

   

After months of no rain we finally got some the other day.  It was so humid the next morning we got fog in July.  It made for an interesting view.

   

Fortunately I had a tarp over the dirt remaining on the roof-- When that clay gets wet it becomes a very amazing glue.