Miscellaneous Updates

Brad, Elise, Weston and Rose came for a short visit to pick up the girls. We went for a little tour, this is the first cutting of our new four acre field that we worked hard to irrigate.

Bailed and stacked.

Great Grandma Joan worked hard on a quilt made from Grandpa Dan's old work pants.

The headboard was made for Grandma Janna many years ago back in Gig Harbor, Wa.

The work on the kitchen stopped when the exterior farm work began this spring.  The lower cabinets will get doors and drawers, probably this winter.  But it is fully functional and is working quite well.

More of Grandma's cloud pictures.

It has been a lot of work so far.  We will update you later on Grandpa's new friend and helper.

Summer Visitors And The Reason For Having A Farm

 

Grace and Claire came from New Mexico to visit Grandma and Grandpa for a month.  They arrived just in time to help bring the goats to the R-N-R from St. George.

The next project was to mow the new grass that would be used for picnics, morning school and camping.

After school with Grandma, Grace and Claire headed to the creek for adventure.

The local wildlife was studied as much as possible. 

If not at school or adventuring, there was plenty of work to be done.  Grace is counting her pile of weeds she removed from the lawn.  She and Claire earned 1 penny for each weed.

After hard work we visited the local hot springs.

Lorraine and her girls came for a visit also, so we took them to the hot springs too.

But if you play you must work.  Everybody picked up rocks from the future lawn area.  As with the weeds 1 penny per rock was earned.

After the money was earned the four girls Grace, Claire, Cora and Cate jumped on their bikes and headed to the Mercantile for treats.

Ellie got out of all the work.

Summer Projects

 The biggest project for the early summer was to get the goats moved up to Kanosh from St. George.  The existing fencing on the farm is approx. 100 year old barbed wire.  It might hold a tame cow but not goats.  So, a pen needed to be built.  I decided on an approx. 2 acre pen in the North East corner of the front 8 acres. 

Getting the corners set, the back corner is visible 450 feet away.

On the property line I built the new fence up against the old existing fence.  This is the new corner, existing fence and fence building obstacles.

Trimming up some posts to use at my feeder fence area.

Getting started with the feeder fence posts. The hay stack backstop is in.

The 2 acre pen was taking too long for me to build by myself, but I could not wait any longer to move the goats to the farm.  I borrowed some fence panels from one of my Kanosh neighbors to make a small temporary pen. Then I built a wire lid for my dump trailer and we loaded up the goats.

 I finally got the larger pen complete, I just don't have a good picture of it.  You can see it in the back ground of this picture Janna took of the pretty clouds.