Welcome Back to the Harmony Barn Apartment!

Not a welcoming sight if you are a guest arriving to the Harmony Barn Apartment.

This week we had guests again at the Harmony Barn Apartment. It was nice to have people enjoying the beautiful spring days and knowing that summer will bring a steady stream of people to enjoy the area, many of them for the first time. Turns out it takes a bit of work to reopen a place after having been shut down for a few months. This is what owners of cabins and second homes must have to deal with, but I wouldn’t know. The main thing in getting the place ready is making sure the systems work. It’s good to have electricity and plumbing, and when the toilet started leaking and flooded the bathroom after it was reconnected, that was NOT good. Hours, and many soggy towels later, the apartment was ready. The wifi was humming along, and the welcome mat was in place and our contractor had moved the gigantic trash trailer from the parking lot and entrance. Of course it still looks like a construction zone around the lower part of the barn, but it looks like a neat construction zone and hopefully our guests won’t mind too much.

Week 18
The barn progress is cruising along. Drywall is up and drywall mud and finishing is starting. The other big thing to start happening is the landscaping. Right now the land slopes right into the South side of the barn, which means water drains right toward the barn. The land will have to be scraped away, and reconfigured so that water drains away from the barn. And then walkways and hardscaping will be put in.