Friday, April 22, 2016

Farm Life - the not often things we do

Last week and this week we worked on moving an old chicken coup that was in our horses pasture in the woody area, and took it apart and moved it over into our big garden area closer to the house.
Took a full day to take it down and move the pieces, a whole day to re-support the floor, and two half days to put it back together. Way faster and cheaper than building a new chicken coop! And this one has such character! Taking it down, moving it and rebuilding it made me feel like a Barnwood Builder!
Just finished today, except we need more roofing nails to finish up the roof.
I managed to get some pictures of the work with my dad's phone, so thought I'd share. :)
Shed in original location
Kai, Nathaniel and Dad working on detaching the roof
Kai & Nathaniel taking the metal off of the roof frame
Nathaniel removing a sheet
Dad re-supporting the flooring
Shed in new location!!
A moth I saw while I was helping put the walls back on the shed

And on Wednesday this week our bull Teddy decided to get out for the third time this month!
So before he got out onto the main road and got hit by a car or decided to go down to the gardens next door and run us up a bill, we decided we needed to put up a better fence then the original barbed wire he decided he could fit through!
Since dad was at work, we called our friends Nathaniel and Isaac, since we knew they have done fencing before, to see if they were available to help us put up the fence. Thankfully they were!
Took us practically all day, but we got that fence up. All 330 some feet of it!!

See the big post at the end waaaaay down there?!

Really enjoyed the unusually warm/hot weather this week, but I'm kinda glad for the cool down and rain for a little break. Wait..... did I just say I'm glad its raining?!?!?! ;)

Ok, I decided to post a few pix to "melt your hearts".
Are they not just the cutest things ever!?!?
No, we didn't get Dachshund puppies, we just saw some and had to pet them.
 Poor Kai wasn't there, so didn't get to enjoy their cuteness, she thinks they're only "kinda cute" just because they're "rat dogs". She's prejudice. ;)

Hope you all had a great week!

3 comments:

  1. Love it! looks like y'all had a busy week!
    Tell Kai that she doesn't know what she's talking about, they are PUPPIES for goodness sake. They are soo cute!!! :D

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  2. Hey, I do too know what I'm talking about!
    Okay, maybe they are cute, but I've seen cuter, like Belinda. ;)

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  3. I know right!
    Kai you heard her, take notes here.... ;)

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