Whew, we finally have an excuse to not work until bedtime. It is dark now by 1700hrs and that is when I get home. Winter is here, sort of. We are experience a most wonderful chinook after a few days of -30C. After many hours we finally got the barn structure set up. We still need doors and skirting but that can wait until spring our big concern was the getting the barn structure complete before the winter and we achieved that task, just barely.
The deep freeze we found ourselves in for a few days showed us a couple of problems with water lines that were not addressed by the previous owner...hmmm. Well hopefully we corrected them during the warm period last week but we won't know until the weather freezes again. The dogs discovered a couple of loose chickens before we did, and then there were 4. Two of the three hens remaining have started laying wonderful tasting eggs. We all are quite excited each day to go out and check for eggs.
We now have a serviceable bale spike on the tractor and have given the donkeys a large bale of hay to munch on. They seem to be doing ok and have calmed down so much that Rowyn has had a chance to sit on them for a minute or two.
We have to do something about the dogs, most nights they bark endlessly at passing coyotes. Perhaps we can train them to be inside at night, we will see.
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