Category: Construction and Maintenance
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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
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More Burning Brush
Larry and I burned another two piles of brush today. It was a lovely day. Ken helped out by putting out small grass fires in the dry pasture. We got almost all of the brush out of the east side of the orchard. Larry will bring his quad and small trailer back and pick up… Continue reading
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Burning Some Brush
Today, we started the spring brush burning. All of the prunings from the trees need to be disposed of. Larry had a large pile set aside, and Ken burned it today. There is still a lot out in the orchard – we’ll have several burn piles to go through – but this is a good… Continue reading
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New Sheep Sign
We got the second part of our sign up today. Now, people will easily know what we do and sell here. We also have a sign up by the barn that shows the UK association logo, since we’re also members of that association. Continue reading