Fall 2014 Farm Pics





Fall On The Farm

Colors Of Corn Creek Canyon

Hills And Horses

Cows In Kanosh

Light Layer On The Lawn

Cora In The Country

Fall Chores

One of the first fall chores is to locate and bring something like this big boy to the farm.






The expression on the faces of the girls says it all.

The plan this year is to leave the goats at the farm for most of the winter. I had some metal panels that I had recovered from a house. Along with a few cedar posts and some 2x4s we have the beginnings of a nice shelter.

I had enough shorter metal panel pieces to add two side walls. I extended the roof over the fence for hay storage, the hay doubles as a good wind break and makes a cozy three sided enclosure.

 These pictures taken in November, show that the plan worked quite well.

 I have been trying to decide what to do with this 100 plus year old structure.  As a builder, I just can't tear it down. A winter of heavy snow and I may not need to make the decision.  I decided that a good fall project would be to dig out the approx. 2 feet of debris from the inside and begin to rebuild the roof.

I used rough sawn material and matched the existing construction practices. It needs a lot more work but at least now the roof won't completely collapse.  The other side of the metal roof is completely brown with rust. On this new side I tried an experiment. I used phosphoric acid to remove some of the galvanizing to chemically age the corrugated metal panels. It took off the shine and it is starting to rust already.

This portion of the project completed just in time.

Wrapping Up Summer

I try to do mostly outside projects when the weather is good, but the bathroom window trim has been needing to be done for a while now.  I finally got her done.

The September weather is wonderful, so we had to get a four wheeler ride in. Grandma and Joe got tired and are taking a nap.

Late summer, early fall is a good time to get some planting done.  The front city lot / orchard area has been in need of some TLC.

So we tilled everything that was dry grass and weeds to prepare for a little more lawn and some pasture grass.

Unfortunately, after tilling comes a lot of raking.

"A picture is worth a thousand rocks."

We also tilled and planted a small area around the round-about with a wheat, barley, hay mixture.

With the help of rain and sprinklers the pasture grass came up pretty fast.

Goats enjoying the new pastures. Joe enjoying his job of keeping the goats in the new pastures.