Finally... Cooler Weather!

Not a lot of news down here this past week. The weather has certainly been more pleasant. And the last tropical storm blew in some very nice rain early last week. We also just got grazed by a tornado, and only lost a few big tree limbs. We are anticipating temps in the seventies this weekend, and fifties at night. Looking forward to that. This past weekend the kids wanted to camp out in the field. We pitched the tents, we could not get to sleep, and all came in by midnight to the comfort of our beds. I am getting too old to sleep on the ground, especially after a long day of hard labor preparing slab area for new shed/coop. It may not look like much , but that was hours of hard labor, digging footings with pick ax, spreading gravel. .

The turkeys are in the freezer except for the left over three Bourbon Reds(above, wondering where their conrads are...) Which we were hoping to breed in the spring. The turkeys were not fun too harvest, I had to wrestle them down to the ground to catch them. They were BIG, the biggest tom dressed out at 30+ pounds ! Not sure if we will do again next year or not. Will have to see what we think after we try one or two of them.

We got the new metal roof on the barn, they did a good job. I have the sight prepared to pour the slab for the lean-too shed off the side. This will serve primarily as out chicken coop, which needs to be done like yesterday! I will also section off some for a garden tool storage area, and a chicken brooder area. Hoping to get that started this weekend, if slab gets poured this week. I found a local saw mill to cut some rough sawn lumber to match current batten board siding pattern at a reasonable cost. One week later... slab is poured, foundation blocks laid. I got the end walls framed up, and hope to finish framing this weekend(09/24/2011)

And this is Ethan tending to our "9-11" fire which kept burning the whole weekend in memory of that horrible event...it also allowed us to get rid of piles of junk wood from when we tore down the rotten half of the barn. Surely undoing a years worth of effort to decrease our carbon foot print!

And just an update on the colored rangers, to date they are 7 weeks old, about six to go...this picture is two weeks old now. Unfortunately I heard some of the young cocks trying to crow this morning! That could be a lot of crowing as they continue to grow for 6 more weeks!