Category: Construction and Maintenance
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Painting
To save time and make finishing work easier, all of the lumber we’re using has been primed and painted before the start of roof assembly. It’s almost time to put the roof up over the new porch, too. Continue reading
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Porch Concrete, Poured
Originally, Bill was going to build the roof over the porch first, but some of the lumber didn’t arrive in time. The concrete got poured first instead. Continue reading
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Sample Socks, Cloak, and Concrete
Today, we got back some sock samples that we’re having made from our Black Welsh Mountain wool. We’ll be offering both a hiking crew and a terry sock in men’s and women’s sizes. The labels turned out really nice. Bill used the tractor to do the final filling of the holes before the concrete truck… Continue reading
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Ready for Concrete
We’re nearly ready to pour the concrete footers for the new porch. Continue reading
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Porch Construction
The posts holding the roof of the new porch need to be set in concrete piers. They will each have a large footer. Our next task was to position them properly and dig the necessary holes. Continue reading
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Winnie and Construction
We moved Winnie in with the rams so that we could let them graze the front pear orchard. She’s really being good about staying with them. Construction work on the new porch has begun, and we removed the old porch cover today. Continue reading
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Porch Construction Has Started
Bill is back to add a covered deck to the back of the house. Our first task is to take down the existing small porch. We’ll add a concrete patio to the right between the door and the garage, and the deck to the left will wrap around to the front and side. There will… Continue reading
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Water, Everywhere!
It’s time for morning chores. There’s water everywhere from the rain. Ken is opening the valve to dump water into the big pond. Continue reading
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Irrigation and Garden Stuff
Ken got the gated pipe across the main orchard today, and we’ve started irrigating. We have roughly 50 honey locust trees in our temporary nursery orchard. We will eventually move them out to where they belong, but we don’t have irrigation where they need to go just yet. Continue reading
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Sheep Nests and New Furnace
Our sheep dig nests in the bedding pack and sleep there. No lamb eggs this year for Easter, though. Here’s one of our ewes on her nest. We also got the last bit of the west divider fence done today. We still have to fix the top section that goes over the gated pipes, but… Continue reading