Projects

No matter how small the farm, the projects are still never ending.  My good friend e-mailed me today, and my mind took off at high speed on all the things that need to be done. 

There is:

• The chickens new palace to put some hinged sides on, and roof paper the roof - oh and install the top half of the !@!#$%! Dutch door
• Stretch the fence to segregate the chickens
• Running electricity to the barn
• Set posts and stretch the fence to segregate the garden patch
• Build a movable temporary chicken coop so the chickens can do their magic in the garden patch
• Put a new floor in the (soon to be new) hay storage area
• Build a milking bench
• Cross fence the big pasture
• Build a run-in, in the "Run" out in the big pasture
• Turn the compost heaps (which, by the way, it looks like something has been digging down into it and sleeping in there for warmth during the cold nights)
• Fix the gate on the big goat birthing stall
• Haul in more roadbase and level up the floor of the barn

These are the beginning of the projects, and may sound like a lot - especially in addition to the daily activities involved in keeping and raising livestock and simply keeping house / life, and making soap and cheese, but there is a method to the madness.  This has been something I've wanted all my life - the early hardships are still worth it.  When each of these projects reaches completion, it will be that much easier to maintain.  I am ridiculously EXCITED about each of these projects!  There isn't a single one I dread! 

It's always busy, but because it's our farm it is not ever overwhelming.