Pocket Pause

Well, this weekend has been MAJORLY eventful, but as our huge project of the century isn’t quite finished i will wait until next week to unveil those before and after photos. Mwa ha ha. For now – we have been the happy recipients of savvy parents and long hours of tedium!

My mama spent a day or two lifting and tightening almost all our fences around the property. All i have left to do now is place a few strategic t-stakes (many reclaimed from around a second perimeter fence) and clear some fallen brush off the back fence in order to lift that one and we’ll have a sturdy fence! Sturdy enough for llamas at least. The next big fencing project is to dig some post holes and install a ‘yard’ fence around the front to keep our little Pocket safe from speeding log trucks. She also built us some swallow houses, which are already being inspected. We need to build about 50 more as our home eaves were previously a swallow colony.

My dad spend SEVERAL days struggling with our old 1951 Ferguson tractor and got it to run! It still has a flat tire and needs some major TLC in the fuel line department but we think we’ll have a work with-able tractor pretty soon! (Though “soon” tends to be a relatively flexible description on a farm, haha.)

On my end, i assembled a nest box for Strawberry and will spend the next few days watching and waiting to see if she is in fact pregnant and if she does in fact kindle. So far she seems to be enjoying defecating in the box instead.

Stay tuned for next week’s epic post! Can you guess what we’ve been up to? Hint – our home is surrounded by piles of trash and Pocket no longer woofs at every thumping noise as she’s been surrounded by bangs and crashes for half a week…..

We finally made significant change to the interior of our home! Our bedroom almost looks like a real grownup space: we finished laying the floor!

I tapped and measured while my husband filled the laundry room with sawdust by cutting the boards for me. It was an excellent team effort and we finished the whole room in one weekend. (What a workout – i think my hamstrings still hurt!) Now all we have to do to finish this room is:

• trim the floor
• re-mount Andy’s closet doors
• paint the floor vents/ registers
• design and build my entire closet system. (I’m tired of boxes stacked up in a corner, darnit! I will have shelves! Built in shelves built to my whimsy!!)

Also, we need to get a new bed and build or buy an actual ‘bed’ like with a headboard and footboard instead of a boxspring on the floor. Some end-tables might be nicer than upside down boxes as well, but we’re not total dreamers. haha.

Feels good to have a real floor AND fresh paint in at least one room of the house. I think we’ll tackle the living room next weekend. Anything to help us ignore the grass that is rapidly growing out front while we don’t have a working tractor or lawnmower….