Day 3059 The church of the later great weight.

30th December 2025

It was back to John the wood’s barn after missing a week. This is definitely the time I look forward to, and allow my creativity to burst forth.

John was his usual self, the journey from his home to the barn is when I try to find out what’s been happening, John tried to tell me, but stumbles and forget the key point, a bit like not remembering the punch line to a joke. I try to fill in the blanks, sometimes I’m on the nail, other times way off, and it remains a mystery.

I can feel his brain whirling around, and I feel bad for him, he’s a fun chap, when I say something amusing he chuckles.

He is using the notebook I gave him, to write things to remember, things to buy and names of people. I put things in that might be of interest, YouTube videos, then we can talk about them.

I saw what he was building for the church that has been in progress for weeks. Admittedly he has only done the wood parts, but suddenly all this steel had been added. This is half inch thick plate, with the timber panels bonded to it. There are two units that will stack on top of each other.

I still don’t understand what, and why they are building it. John said the steel was to stop a bullet, that’s the bit that’s weird to me, the pastor is safe but what about the congregation?

In reality it was an elevation device for the pastor, who is disabled, to get from the ground to his preaching height.

The final structure must weigh over half a ton, god knows how it will be moved.

We started on the sofa today, pulling out planks of white oak from his stock, it really is a treasure trove of timber.

He has ten, three inch thick live edge boards ten feet long that must be worth thousands to a table builder. 

We started cutting up the planks, flattened them and planing them to the required thickness.

Although I didn’t get any boards glued up, it put me in a good position to do it next week.

Light snow continued throughout the day. The fine powdery kind that doesn’t appear to do much, after many hours builds up a significant amount.

We had a customer coming to collect the two dressers, so I had to make sure I had returned by then. Bank on time they turned up with a trailer. The chap admitted that he couldn’t reverse, so we unhitched it, moved it out of the way, and repositioned it, pulled their vehicle out and reversed back in. Once the trailer was hooked back up, we loaded the two pieces, and off they went.

Winnie had a good day, no accidents happened in the house, and everything was calm and relaxed, just what I needed.