So… the weekend we’ve all been waiting for! Barn raising!!! As you know the pieces have all been being built but we needed more daylight than the evenings of the present season gives us to put it all together. 🙂 So today I channeled my inner He-man… or Hulk or whatever and helped move the …
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The Red Door
So my “get this barn thing done” project for today was to paint the back door. This is the door on the ‘goat’ side of the barn so it’s not like it’s going to be all that amazing in who knows how much time, but I still wanted our Little Red Barn to at least …
Introducing…
Polly…. … and Polka! Our goats are home!! Well, they are in temporary lodgings for now while we continue construction on the “Goat Palace” as Stu’s been calling it. 🙂 I can’t WAIT to show that off in an upcoming post! This is how our ladies traveled from the “valley” back. It was a little …
Progress Report
So… the goats are coming home on Sunday. I’m trying not to totally freak out between now and then because stuff just isn’t ready. Hopefully it’ll be ready enough, and even if it’s not, we’ll improvise. We can do that! 🙂 In the mean time I’m attempting to gain a foothold on the million and …
The Little Red Barn Begins
😀 My very own, personal, handy-dandy carpenter has begun construction on the Little Red Barn! I’m so excited!!! Pay no mind to the unorganized garage! It’s been a hectic 5 months or so! If you look carefully, you’ll find Ella hiding out in the background! Qade spends his time around the saw like this…. He …
The Little Invisible Barn
Isn’t it beautiful!?! 🙂 Ha ha! We have t-minus 2.5 weeks to have it up and ready for our little goaties! Nooooooooooooo problem! 😉 Stu has the plans AND the experience with building this same style structure since he got the greenhouse done. I spent about an hour this afternoon on the hill with a …
Life, Death and Moving On
It’s been a stressful week here at the homestead. 🙂 (I need to come up with a cute name for our “homestead.” Feel free to leave suggestions!) Last Sunday we came home after dark having spent the day with friends. Got to take advantage of doing that before we have milk animals to tend to! …
The two P’s and some chicken stuff
Today I found a friend for Polly! Another Nigerian Dwarf named Polka! How cute is that? Polly and Polka! Polka has been raised by a lady who’s been breeding goats for 42 years!! She is also vice prez of the Arizona Goat Breeders Association, so she knows her stuff! She was so sweet and helpful, …
Pretty Polly our New Goat!
I can’t believe we are getting a goat!!!! Yay!!! It’s happening kinda like the day I left the house on a regular old shopping trip and came back with a dozen chicks. 🙂 Something we’ve been talking about, but thought it would happen “one day” and then BAM! that one day is here! 🙂 I …