Roof

Yes, I am a terrible blogger.  Life seems to get in the way of blogging.  I am working on doing better, but really who knows. 

Since my last posting, we have gotten a lot done, we now have a roof.  What a wonderful feeling.  I hate ladders, nothing a person does on a ladder is good.  All painful work.

A few other major accomplishments are water and electricity.  It is absolutely no fun to be somewhere where there is no electricity and water.   First Water!!!!

First Plug!!!!!  God I love modern conveniences......

 And a new TOY!!!!!!

First ride.

and cute dogs!!!

Pretty Flowers

Well, this weekend was very productive, although nothing happened on the barn. We have WATER, liquid gold, in our case. We have got the co-op water hooked up and running. We had to lay 400’ of water pipe, but by the end of Saturday we had actual running water. For us this is bigger than big, we have been hauling water back and forth, which was a royal pain.

Another picture of John being a goof.....

 

Last week, we got another 3” of rain, so when digging the trench we had water seeping into the hole it is so wet. Nice to see but a real bud pie when working in it.

The wild flowers were beautiful out there. Tyke was not so impressed, since his nose if level with the flowers and he kept getting flowers stuck all over him.

What is Up

Why do people have to put chickens on their heads?  I am now consumed with people who put chickens on their head and why.  And why the hell does the chicken stay there!

Our Vacation

Well, we are back from our vacation.  We went to London and had a day at Paris.  We had such a wonderful time.  I think our favorite place was London.  We were not crazy about Paris, way to many people.  We met so many nice people.  But, if you ever go, bring comfortable shoes, you will walk and walk and walk. 

Random street in London

Eiffel Tower

Weirdest tree I have ever seen!

John annoyed with me and the camera! Always fun.

What would London be without Porridge

Westminster Abby

Big Ben

We have hundreds of pictures but this is just a few.  I would recommend the trip to anyone.  Especially if you like old things.  Not much new there!  Our favorite things were: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Westminster Abby.

Another weekend

It has been awhile since I posted.  Work has been pretty busy, but I thought I would show you the major work done on the barn.  We have officially gotten all the braces and ceiling joists up.  We are now ready for the rafters.  I again hit my limit this weekend.  We had to put in about 100 small screws.  Although I had an electric screw driver (not sure if that is their official name), but standing on a latter in limited space, I was again not strong enough to get them started.  John didn't want to drill a starter hole.  After about an hour of total frustration, I said 'screw that' (yes, I literally said that) and I started drilling the holes first.    But then I broke the bit, so, I had a melt down and went and worked in the garden.  And unfortunately for John, he had to finish all the screws.

Another proud moment was when I noticed our  potatoes have come up.  We had more torrential rain and we lost some of our greens and the eggplant, which John was very happy about.

What would a blog without pictures of the dogs.

Chicken on the Head

I really love looking at pictures.  I am always amazed the topics and how much art is involved.  My pictures on the other hand leave a lot to be desired.  But then there are some pictures that just make me scratch my head. 

I do appreciate other cultures and their ways and I am not so concerned that she has a chicken on her head.  But I have no idea how and why the chicken would stay on her head.  I found this picture on USA Today website.  This picture was taken during a ceremony for something, can't really remember because I kept trying to figure out why the silly chicken stays there.  If you have ever tried to catch a chicken you might understand my amazement.

More Work

It has been a couple of weeks since we have been at the farm.  We had bad weather and last weekend I had to go to a funeral.  By the way, funerals suck!  It either brings out the best or worst in people and I witnesses both. Ugh!!!!

On a higher note, we were at the farm this weekend and we had wonderful weather.  It was cold at night, but no wind and the day time temperatures were in the 60s.  Couldn't ask for better weather.

The bummer part of the weekend is that I forgot the camera.  Yep, the only picture I got was with the phone, so not so good. 

We did get some work done on the barn.  We have 3 ceiling joist up.  At first glance, I bet you are saying; '3' ALL weekend?  Yes, we got '3'.  First they are 25' 2x6s.  It was John and I ONLY, trying to get the ceiling joists up the ladder and placed properly.  Between the two of us we have 2 good shoulders, so we didn't do that bad. 

As I was reminded this weekend, it is a project that we are going to experience and have fun with and not worry about the speed in which the barn goes up.  So based on that comment, you can only surmise that I was not happy with the speed we were progressing.  The project was put into perspective which I did appreciate by my lovely husband.  I do have problems with little progress.  My nature is to get things done and get on to something else, but building a barn on the weekends does not lend itself to that way of thinking.

We also tilled more garden and planted potatoes. 

As usual we learned something this weekend.  Our dogs are psycho.  Our 5 lb poodle HATES the nail gun.  Literally attacks it.  Will race across high grass, dips in the ground (which is big if you are small) just to try to bite the heck out of the gun.  In contrast my 65 lb lab hates the gun and any loud noise and runs away as fast as possible and wants to get in the truck for safety.  Tyke has no idea he is tiny, Sandy has no idea she is large!  After Tyke continually attached the gun, Sandy decided that peer pressure was a little much and the sheer embarrassment of getting one upped by a poodle, Sandy decided to chime in as the picture shows below.  This is the closest Sandy has ever been to the gun.   

This is not a great picture, but this is Tyke running after the nail gun.