Pioneer Day 2014

We love the Kanosh 24th of July parade. It's not too crowded and they throw lots of candy.

The crowd favorite is the Kanosh Town fire trucks that wrap-up the parade.

This year we added a few of our own activities back at the R-N-R.  As pictured we put together a pretty sweet redneck water slide. All meals were cooked outside pioneer style. We had the 1st annual farm implement race (see attached video).  Next year along with the race, we plan on adding the annual family rodeo.

A Little Progress

We didn't get to the farm as much as we wanted to this spring and when we did our time was mostly filled with yard work. Remember the new lawn I planted last fall?

I did manage to get a few small projects done, like the cabinet doors and drawers. I even got a bathroom door installed.  The barn door I've always wanted.



A rusty bent horse shoe I found works great for a door handle / pull.


I had just enough left over pine to build a ladder to the loft. I still need to build a closet door.

After deciding to sell most of the goats, we moved the remaining select six to the farm to graze in happiness.

 

 The project I have been trying to get done all spring was to complete the siding by placing the 1x4 batts.  Cora came to the farm for a few days and helped me complete this project.

Now we have a barn.

And even a drinking fountain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Along with clouds and sunsets. What more do we need?

 



Winter / Early Spring

In January or February I installed a roll-up door on the barn.  I had planned on building a pair of traditional exterior sliding doors, but changed plans to get a better weather-tight seal. I installed interior and exterior weather stripping.












As mentioned in the previous blog, kidding season started early (January).  The problem was unlike last year when we had all 25 new kids in 9 days, this year it lasted 3 months. Checking on expecting does (heavies) a couple of times a night became quite a chore. But we got through it and boy are they cute.

This is a portion of the 35 new kids. With one big buck, does and kids we had a total of close to 60 goats for a short time before we began to sell many of them.









One yearling doe turned out to not be pregnant.  Remember these are livestock farm animals raised for one purpose. We made a tasty batch of goat meat snack sticks.