Meaties have arrived, it must be spring!

As a sure sign of spring, our 50 meaties arrived at the post office this morning. All appear to be in good health after their airplane ride from Mnt. Pleasant, Ohio. Our goal is no more then 3-5 losses. We are needing to house them on the back little porch of the rental. It is crowded, but will do fine. Now we can open the back door and eat and watch them from the kitchen table just three feet away.

We are hoping we move out to the land within four weeks but that might be optimistic. We will certainly be ready to get them in the chicken tractor by then. The house is nearing completion. They are painting this week inside. (Mark, your idea about the extended jambs turned out to look quite nice!) Next week the stone mason might start on the fireplace. Then it is flooring, cabinets, finish electrical, and a few things outside.

The turkeys are scheduled to arrive on April 26, right about when the meaties will be moving out to the tractor.

Our Green Home...

We wanted a "green" home, but this is not exactly how I had imagined it. I learned from now on to always try a sample on the house before you go ahead and paint the whole thing. The light green looked a lot more like sage than mint on the paint chip... but what's done is done, it is starting to grow on us.

Otherwise things are moving right along and by the end of this week I think the drywall will be finished. It has really changed the look of the inside of the house. Below are a couple sneek peeks.



This is looking almost from one end of the house down to the other.



This is a look down into the front of the house from up on the balcony under the clerestory above.


Last weekend we were blessed with an 80 degree day and we started working on the barn. Basically after we started we realized that we needed to actually tear down half of it, it truely was beyond repairing. We will try to save the siding and as much wood as possible for future chicken coop. The kids had fun making teeter totters from some of the wood. While Karen and Aki made a "bouncey" board...