Rosslyn’s rolling rehabilitation — intermittent, to be sure, but ongoing since 2006 — is one way to account for the fact that the carriage barn floorboards have been mostly invisible for much of the last decade and a half. One project or another, and plenty of equipment and materials, have occupied virtually every usable square foot of surface area. But Pam’s industrious efforts are changing that. Despite the fact that there’s more cleaning up and cleaning out on the horizon, today, we pause to celebrate. The carriage barn floorboards once lost now have been found!

Filtered daylight once again enters the south east corner of the carriage barn. This 6-over-6 double hung window has been blocked by a stickered stack of lumber curing for at least a decade. But the last of that lumber was sorted and moved a couple of days ag