Category Archives: Farm Projects
Electronic Gaming Vacation
For the last week-and-a-half, I have been on an electronic gaming vacation. Normally, I am quite obsessive about playing electronic games (on the computer or Nintendo). But, of course, this takes time away from things I should be doing: reading, … Continue reading
Filed under Farm Projects, Farming
How did it get to be March 8th?
And why is it just 3° when I wake up in March? I thought it would be warmer. I am still in need of long, warm days without rain to ‘finish’ the garage. Now more than ever I want it … Continue reading
Filed under Chickens, Farm Projects, Homebuilding
Garage Construction, part 4
Above is an old picture, from November 15, but it shows us putting up the roofing felt. The roofing felt is done, all of the sheathing has been put on the walls, and I have rolled out most of … Continue reading
Filed under Farm Projects, Homebuilding
Garage Construction, part 3
Still no baby. Garage construction has been creeping along. I don’t think I realized how proportionately small the work to put up the skeleton of the garage was, compared to the actual completing of the job. It took far longer … Continue reading
Filed under Farm Projects, Homebuilding
Still Waiting for a Baby
I think I must lack patience, because as I look back over the last year or so, I realize that I have talked alot about waiting. Waiting for the purchase of our house, waiting for the adoption, waiting to get … Continue reading
Filed under Baby, Farm Projects, Homebuilding
Updates about nothing in particular
I really don’t have anything to write about tonight, but I have time on the computer, so I might as well write something. I am finishing up my training in the prison this week — next week I will be … Continue reading
Filed under Baby, Bible, Chickens, Farm, Farm Projects, Farming Poultry, Homebuilding, Work
Garage Construction, part 2
This weekend’s garage-building did not go quite as well as planned. Terry came to help in the morning, and together we worked a bit on side sheathing and we built the ladders for the gable-end overhangs. About the time that … Continue reading
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Garage Construction
One of the activities we have been doing in our spare time has been to build a garage. I had been doing the framing whenever I got a few hours of daylight and it wasn’t raining. I had been working … Continue reading
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I’m a Farmer Now
I have been having a hard time telling folks around here that we own a farm, because they invariably ask what my crop is. So I had taken to telling folks that I am a farmer without a crop and … Continue reading
Filed under Chickens, Farm, Farm Projects
Whizbang Garden Cart
Finished! Caleb & I finished building our Whizbang Garden Cart and used it for the first time this morning. I decided to paint it with some left over exterior paint we had laying around. I had been, and may still … Continue reading
Filed under Farm, Farm Projects, Whizbang
