Kim and I visited the site today and met with Lee, Wes and Art, who is constructing our barn. Lot's to talk about, but my focus was on the barn and how it would look feeding into the slope. As you can see from the pictures below, great progress has been made. Up close, the quality of the posts and beams is as promised as is the quality of the workmanship.
There is a bit of an issue with the windows though, and this is all due to the slope. Left as planned, we would be missing all the windows in the back and two of the windows on the right side. Lee, Wes, Kim, Art and I stared silently at the barn for a long time ... but then Art perked up and said maybe three small or medium transom windows (a row of small windows) would work in the back. Everyone thought that would be a much better idea than adding skylights as they evidently always leaked. That of course left me wondering why we thought that skylights were such a good idea in the first place.
So, it was decided transoms in the back, but we still had only one window on the right side of the barn. I ventured over to that side of the barn to try and imagine what it would look like. By the time I got back that problem had been solved as well. It turns out, that once a foundation is complete, you can alter it a little. The new plan was to cut out just enough of the foundation wall to make room for the second window on the right side ... and ... now it will match the left.
