Projects in April and May

It takes a lot of time to write this blog. If I take the time to write, I don't have time to do. If I take the time to do, I don't have time to write. So here is a long blog with lots of pictures to cover some of what has happened since the last time.


I bought a tree saw. Then I donned my sun and went out with my dog, Tiki, to the old, shaggy, half-dead, old elm tree in the back corner of my property. I cut off all the old dead branches, a few branches that were sticking out where the fence goes, and then cleaned up all around it. It looked so much better when I was finished and I was now out of the way of the fence.













Then my son Joseph came down for the summer. He is a college student, studying engineering. He comes home in the summer because he works to help me fix up my home. He has been working on my home for me for quite a few years. He should be working on my home, but I put him to work on building a goat shed and pen for me first. (It was being too big o a job for me.)

He used some very old posts we had laying around rotting. He painted put oil on their bases, dug holes, and put them into the ground.


Then he put the roof and sides on. Its not finished yet, but making progress.

















Then I got some big helpers to come help me with more projects I couldn't do for myself. First they took out an old power line pole.







Then they help move some stuff around and burn a big pile of old rotted lumber.



















Then they moved some piles of uncut firewood.







And lastly, they pulled down a tree that was on the property line where I will be putting my fence.













This is the last week of school. I will be very busy this week with the last week. We will be having an evening patriotic program, a day that we take the whole school swimming, field day, clean up day, end of the year assemblies and much more (not to mention stuff to take my own teenage girls to.) But then I will have almost two and a half months to put more elbow grease into my yard --and hopefully let Joseph get back to working on my house. We are working on the goat shed and pen at top priority because at the end of next week I bring home my new two month old goat, Jizelle, and still haven't finished Jaccapo's pen to put him into. If we don't get it done in time, we will simply put Jizelle in it until it is all the way done for Jaccapo.