Post by Deleted on May 7, 2006 18:15:54 GMT -5
I'm getting really excited now. The chicken coop is finished, and Rich is outside painting the framing on the run right now. Tomorrow we'll put up the chicken wire and then the girls can move out to their new house.
I'm having to spend the day inside today because I got really spectactularly sunburned yesterday, helping Rich with the framing. I'm glowing today, and it hurts! I always get one really bad sunburn every year. You'd think I would have this figured out by now, but noooooo....
Anyway, this morning over coffee, Rich started sketching out his plans for the pig pen, and asked me where I thought we should put it. Big shock! I didn't know he was seriously considering this, although I had hoped. So I told him what I thought and he started making up a materials list. I told him we should probably get something really sturdy, like Powder River panels or cattle panels at the very least, and he said he wanted it made out of wood. I told him they'll break it down. He said he'd fix it if they did, but he wants an old-fashioned homey pig pen. It's too late to get piglets this year, but at least he's going to start on their pen and shelter so we can get them next Spring. If I can FIND any, that is.
Then he told me that we probably won't have the money to get enough lumber to build a milking shed for my future milk cow, but he's going to partition off part of the existing barn, and build an attached (but outside) feed storage shed, so maybe we can use our horse trailer again. Right now it's our tack and feed storage area.
He's also planning on moving all my greenhouse/gardening stuff into a new area in the "garage" so we can use the existing greenhouse/gardening building for the butcher shop. He said we need to get some heavy duty saws and knives, and he's going to make a big, steel-topped table for the butchering, plus a hoist inside, and a big mobile hoist (he's looking for a cherry-picker) for outside. He obviously doesn't want to do the killing and skinning inside the building. But it has a nice concrete floor, so it should be easy to hose out after processing a pig or a steer. My new "potting shed" area in the garage will be custom-built, so I have to think of what I want and where I want it. He's going to build me a raised table with my lights over it, so I don't have to bend and squat when I'm working with my little seedlings.
So I was very pleasantly surprised this morning. I was thinking that it might be years (or maybe never) before I got all the animals I wanted, and now it looks like he's thinking of completing the menagerie next year. This is gonna be one really cool homestead before too much longer! ;D
~Lannie
I'm having to spend the day inside today because I got really spectactularly sunburned yesterday, helping Rich with the framing. I'm glowing today, and it hurts! I always get one really bad sunburn every year. You'd think I would have this figured out by now, but noooooo....
Anyway, this morning over coffee, Rich started sketching out his plans for the pig pen, and asked me where I thought we should put it. Big shock! I didn't know he was seriously considering this, although I had hoped. So I told him what I thought and he started making up a materials list. I told him we should probably get something really sturdy, like Powder River panels or cattle panels at the very least, and he said he wanted it made out of wood. I told him they'll break it down. He said he'd fix it if they did, but he wants an old-fashioned homey pig pen. It's too late to get piglets this year, but at least he's going to start on their pen and shelter so we can get them next Spring. If I can FIND any, that is.
Then he told me that we probably won't have the money to get enough lumber to build a milking shed for my future milk cow, but he's going to partition off part of the existing barn, and build an attached (but outside) feed storage shed, so maybe we can use our horse trailer again. Right now it's our tack and feed storage area.
He's also planning on moving all my greenhouse/gardening stuff into a new area in the "garage" so we can use the existing greenhouse/gardening building for the butcher shop. He said we need to get some heavy duty saws and knives, and he's going to make a big, steel-topped table for the butchering, plus a hoist inside, and a big mobile hoist (he's looking for a cherry-picker) for outside. He obviously doesn't want to do the killing and skinning inside the building. But it has a nice concrete floor, so it should be easy to hose out after processing a pig or a steer. My new "potting shed" area in the garage will be custom-built, so I have to think of what I want and where I want it. He's going to build me a raised table with my lights over it, so I don't have to bend and squat when I'm working with my little seedlings.
So I was very pleasantly surprised this morning. I was thinking that it might be years (or maybe never) before I got all the animals I wanted, and now it looks like he's thinking of completing the menagerie next year. This is gonna be one really cool homestead before too much longer! ;D
~Lannie
