The Mossy Shipyard by Bryan Woods - 1:1

[Bryan Woods]

Thank you Mike for your thoughtful comments and suggestions. We plan putting cobble stones later. At this time we have stepping stones between the garage and the shipyard that we use if it is damp. It was my idea to get her moved in, so no backing out now:-) Down in the back woods of Tennessee a ship’s wheel isn’t common, or a shipyard either:-) 

[tmj]

Looks fantastic! You also need a small worktable, or work-'bar' on the front porch for those perfect days when the weather is "jusssst right"! ☺️

[Bryan Woods]

22 minutes ago, tmj said:

You also need a small worktable, or work-'bar' on the front porch for those perfect days when the weather is "jusssst right"! ☺️

Great idea tmj, I need to add that to the list:-)

[thibaultron]

Would putting screens in the windows help reduce the bird impacts? Any opinions?

[Bryan Woods]

Good morning Ron, The bird strikes have slowed. Mainly there is a male blue bird that just knocks up against all the windows around the shipyard and the garage.  I think he’s just trying to run off his competition. I do have to install a ceiling under the porch. There’s already a nest with four eggs balanced on a joist:-)

[Bryan Woods]

I thought I was at a stopping point, but when my wife volunteered her help to stain the porch. I was off to the hardware store:-)

 

 

The local store didn’t have much of a selection, luckily they had one she approved of.

[Bryan Woods]

Big improvement today:-) The refrigeration man showed up to cut and vacuumed out the line set for the mini split. Forecast calls for cooler temperatures tomorrow:-)

 

 

Edited June 30 by Bryan Woods

[Bryan Woods]

The first of the moss has showed up:-)

 

[Bryan Woods]

The Mossy Shipyard got another upgrade today. I installed an internet bridge.  One was installed on the corner of the house and the other on a tree beside the garage. 
 

 

I went through the garage and put a tension line across to the shipyard. 
 

 

I knew I put that outlet up there for a reason:-)

 

 

The next thing that I know we’ll do is a flagstone walk.
 

 

I brought these molds back a while ago.

 

 

 

I can see a lot of time involved just trying to put the puzzle together:-)

 

[Michael Mash]

Hello Bryan.  Excellent photos and good news.

Now that we know both, what is going on inside (Nave Egizia) and what is going on outside (air conditioning) of the Mossy Shipyard.  I see no reason to be any less envious than I was last time I read an update. 

And with all those shade trees keeping your cooling bills low, and with your wife cheering you on from the far inside corner of the shipyard, you should have enough money and motivation to not only finish the Nave Egizia, but to leap forthrightly and enthusiastically into the next project. 

Godspeed.

Mike

 

[Bryan Woods]

17 minutes ago, Michael Mash said:

you should have enough money and motivation to not only finish the Nave Egizia, but to leap forthrightly and enthusiastically into the next project. 

 
Thank you Mike for your thoughtful words. I don’t know about the money, I try not deal with that:-) but the motivation will have Nave Egizia finished this week and I’ve already got started back on the Gretel, that I  put on the shelf a while ago.

[Bryan Woods]

Work on the flagstone walk has slowly made progress. I set my inexpensive mixer up and modified a broken wheelbarrow, so it would set under the mixer and not require my wife to hold the handles up on it while I dumped it.

 

 

Then I just drug it over a few feet to the molds.

 

 

They turned out pretty good. I’ve gotten better at not getting it too wet or too dry. In the sunlight they still look like concrete. Nature will stain them like it does everything else around the yard.

 

 

But the moonlight really shows the texture. 
 

 

I’ve been at it for 14 days of mixing an eighty pound bag per day. That fills all six stones and a bit left over. I use it just to patch pour a round stone that I’m sure I can find a place that could use one:-)

At first the stones were challenging to fit together. They just came in a box with zero paper work or diagram. So here’s where I started.

 

 

To push them up closer to the deck I used a straight edge to see where that middle stone needed removed. On my next pour I pushed wood strips in the cement where I needed it cut.

 

I think I may have 12 more days to mix. What I’m dreading is, having to remove them all, to semi level the ground. I didn’t do it to start with because I really had no idea where it was going to lead. After about 5 days worth I could visualize the pattern. I may need to move it north or south a little bit to work around those trees where it will stop.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by Bryan Woods

[king derelict]

Hard work but the results look terrific 

alan