Our thoughtful dog Asher contemplating how life will be when the goats and chickens arrive...

...or just wondering why I'm putting glasses on him

Mic & Sam unloading hay into the barn! 

(Jessie also helped, but took a break to take these photos)

 The first hay bale!! 

Feels good having hay in the barn.

 We needed enough hay to build forts... (and feed goats)

A New Experience

A new experience from a few days back:  After a good day of working together as a family installing new fence posts (future pasture for goats), I got the excavator quite stuck in the mud.  

The stuck part wasn’t the new experience (I’ve managed that a few times).  The new experience came after getting out of the mud (for which I am very thankful).  I was driving out of the mud when my track came off.  I managed to limp the excavator along using the scoop, remaining track, and blade.  I got it to a slightly less muddy area.  Jessie and Micaiah helped me clean all the mud out of all the crevices and track, then we let it sit for the night.  The next day I put the track back on.

After watching a video on YouTube on how to replace a rubber track, I learned that it can be done in about 1/2 hour with the right tools, help, and knowledge.  Well I didn’t really know what I was doing, didn’t have any help, and according to the video one of the right tools was a forklift!  The tracks are actually surprisingly heavy, I can hardly move one across the ground even going little by little.  I don’t know what my time was to completion, but I managed to get the track back on and spinning around perfect again.  Now at least I know what I’m doing for next time.  Now if I just had a forklift....

-Ken

Cleaning / More Progress

Today we moved everything out of our living room so we could clean the carpet. It was a big job, and now our guest room and dining room are full of stuff! 

Also on Saturday we did some outdoor work...

We (my family) put up some fence posts for the pasture. 

Here Micaiah is filling in the dirt around a post.

Here is a picture of a line of fence posts on the farthest side of the pasture from the barn and house.

                                      

Here you can get a perspective of how big the pasture is the farthest side from the barn.

I took this picture when we were walking to lunch after a good mornings work.

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These pictures are of all the doors my dad built for the barn, only one door left to build but they all need some finishing touches! 

This one is very temporary and will probably be replaced at some point!

This is the left front door ...

In this picture you can see the latch on the inside.

This is a sliding door to the basement of the barn where the animals will come out of  into the pasture.

This is the people door to the basement of the barn.