Project: Pole barn, built from 100% site-harvested, site-milled oak, pine, and cedar.

Dates: 2009 – 2013

My family and I moved to Water Valley in 2007. We left in 2011.

Dec 2007 – Eli, building inspector, inspects barn site (background)
Sep 2009 – Cedar center posts are set
Dec 2009 – Eli and me attaching 2x6 full-thickness pine cross pieces
March 2010 – Tin roof, lower tiers in place
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Early Sep 2010 – Trusses are up
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Late Sep 2010 – Roofing is done
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Dec 2010 – Bat-and-board siding is started at least, 1" full thickness oak planks...
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So we're getting there slowly...

2011 – added some oak siding little by little after a good snow in January

Spring again!

Happy Easter 2011
😎 My dad, a.k.a. Granddaddy, Mike "be-the-barn" Sartor 😎

May 2011 – Scarbrough-Sartor camp out at farm

My Aunt Betty Scarbrough with a fraction of the camping group sitting on a hayride trailer about to go for a ride on the farm.
My Uncle Ron Scarbrough, aka "Pop", with granddaughter Sadie helping him drive the hayride tractor.
l-r: Jeanne Moak Scarbrough, Catherine Sartor, Scott Sartor, Daniel Scarbrough, Sarah Scarbrough Waltman, (child) Waltman, Darryl Waltman

Life Happens

⏳ A delay occurs in barn progress … ⏳

“You want to hear God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”

Mike sartor, my dad

June 2011 – the Sartors relocate to Ingomar, Mississippi

Aug 2011 – Anne Kate says Hi from Union County Rodeo.

June 2011 – 2012 – No barn work this year

Oct 2012- The garden has gone fallow and the barn wood has aged
2013 - Eli, building inspector, asks... what are we stalling for?
(I'm getting older fast...! Chop chop!)

Granddaddy to the rescue!

Feb 2013 - Called for assistance from Clinton, and it came!

🙏🏼 Thanks also Charles Rochelle & Josh Westling 🙏🏼

Loft joists and view of interior
Granddaddy's contribution to the barn was, among other things, some beautifully done flooring.
Nov 2020 - the Sartor four pays a brief visit to the farm, our old stomping grounds