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24 June 2008

General update

Haven't posted in a while, been busy doing who knows what.

We have a small garden in this year, really just tomatoes at this point, my father in law was kind enough to come over with his tiller and till up the garden. So that is why we have even that small space.
At this point we are going to probably just keep the ground tended to and weeded so that we can get an early fall garden in.

Those little piglets that we had are getting bigger and have become some what of escape artists, but I think that I have fixed that now.

We plan on building a real pig pen in the coming weeks and getting all of the pigs out the stalls in the barn. They are bored in there and really have nothing to do, so when we let them out the are so happy that they can lay in the sun. Yes, we can let out pigs out and they will come back to us. Pigs are pretty smart animals, and I am not sure that they really like to be all that dirty.

I had 11 Barred Rocks that were just about ready to be moved in with the older chickens, but then one of the little boys open the brooder box and now I have 2. So I will be ordering Barred rocks again in a few weeks. Just bummed me out totally. We are also going to build a new, real chicken coop and run too. Right now they are in what was probably a tack room at one time.

Still looking for that family milk cow. We found a guy that has calves and said that we could buy one from him and then he turned around and sold her. So we are taking it a day at a time, should he have some in a few weeks and we have the funds they we will make the trip and get us a Jersey calf. If not then I will just keep looking and praying.

I have been planing and planing some more on the best way to make the most use of our tiny home.

The first thing that I have found is that we are going to be building triple bunks, then there is no question that I can get all six boys in the one bedroom.

The other thing that we are going to do is closing in our front porch and making our living room larger. At that time we will put in the new windows and front door.

I am still at a loss as to what to do with the back of the house, which contains the third bedroom, kitchen, bath, laundry and entry. For now the third bedroom with probably become our dining room/school room.

We come and go using our back door, as the front door as really steep steps. Jadon took a dive down them last year and literally went head over heals down them.

We had to buy a new refrigerator and then a washer-I have finally come to the realization that I need a second washer. I am working with my fourth washer in just over a year. There are just to many clothes and to many little boys for me to keep up with just one washer. I also need to get the clothes line up, I dug the wholes like the directions said and well it isn't going to work. So I am going to set the polls in 5 gallon buckets, then when ever we get around to adding on I can just pull the buckets out of the ground and set it up some where else in the yard.

I am also planning on gutting our bedroom, then putting in insulation, new windows, drywall and painting. Then I want to put in a really nice closet system so that we can get rid of all the dressers that we have in the house. I would love to be able to add a master bath, but that will probably have to wait until we are able to do the big addition. But someday we will have more than one bathroom.

Then we will slowly work on doing all the exterior walls in the house so that they are insulation properly and have more efficient windows. Then we will see about getting the attic redone.

But first we need to work on getting our animals the proper housing that they need. We are also going to work on the well that we have, and getting the water set up so that we can use it at the barn. Some day I would love to restore our barn, and then add on to it.

But that is just some of what I've been up to.

Blessings,
Debi

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5 July 2008 - Hi Debi!

Posted by marmeeof5

I'm online and wanted to stop by and say Hi and We love you!! Heather was going to set up a blog here under the name willing hands. I tried to find her but had no luck. Maybe she didn't get it all set up yet. I miss her. I'll call you soon. love, Mary

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