{"id":1780,"date":"2011-07-07T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2011-07-07T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T16:15:26","slug":"rome-wasnt-built-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1780","title":{"rendered":"Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"House<\/a>

House Side<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been working steadily on my shed since spring, adding boards after work, or sheeting on the weekends. I’ve found it’s taking much longer to complete each step then I originally anticipated. I’m sure it doesn’t help that I keep adding to the project, first with choosing to build a very large chicken coop, then with a shop on the second story. It all brings home that old saying I first heard as a child “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. When I first heard that expression, I thought it was non sense, of course it took more then a day to build Rome. At the ripe old age of about seven, I had it all figured out, and determined without much thought that Rome took at least one year to build, or less. This nonsense of building a city in a day was absurd, but it surely didn’t take too long.<\/p>\n

\"Field<\/a>

Field Side<\/p><\/div>\n

After growing much older and working on a few projects such as my greenhouse, I began to appreciate the amount of effort that is invested in construction. I’ve learned a lot in these last few years about what will work and what will not. I originally tried to construct a greenhouse using 3\/4 inch PVC pipping, shaped in a geodesic dome type construction. I still think it could work, but I arranged my supports incorrectly. I guess my point is, for every project that works out, there are projects that do not, which adds even more time to the equation.<\/p>\n

\"Landing\"<\/a>

Landing<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve gotten the roofs frame completed, with the landing shown above. I hope to cover this over to create a flat spot for astro-photography. The small box in the photo will be a opening to the lower floors. I’ll finish the whole building, and place a rubber roof over this spot. Later I hope to create a very small telescope and two person sized dome on this landing, but that will be a completely separate project.<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/a>

Front View<\/p><\/div>\n

So here it is, and here I am, 23 years later. I still wonder about that saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. I guess in the grand scheme of things, Rome is never really finished. Construction must still be continuing in some part of the city, and so it’s never totally complete. I do have a better grasp on the meaning, and a better understanding that things really do take time, sometimes lots of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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