Not Much New Around Here

Been a while since a real update... we've been busy, as usual and I just haven't made time to make updates. How's that for an excuse? :)

We're working on getting our goat shed built before the weather changes too dramatically... so far we have:
-- Rented a sod cutter and cleared away the sod in an area about 10ft x 16 ft
-- Installed a 4x4 pressure treat foundation frame, complete with half lap joints at the corners (Thanks Shawn!) then lag bolted together. We also drove 8 pieces of 2 foot long rebar through the pressure treat frame to help anchor the whole structure (2 on each side)
-- We then filled the frame with stone dust from our pile and rented a compactor to compact it down. We also watered it and now its hard like cement!
-- We dragged 4 rubber mats onto the foundation and cut them to fit inside the 4x4 frame so they won't be able to move.
-- We have 2 walls framed in 2x4's and the wood cut to frame the other two walls (maybe tonight if the rain holds off).

The finished shed will be 8ft by 12ft and one wall will be 7ft tall and the opposite wall is 9ft tall and then the roof will be a single slope (like a lean to type roof). Its probably unreasonably tall but there are a couple reasons for it,one being Shawn is freakishly tall and another we can add large windows for ventilation and still have them above "goat level" so they don't mess with them or get too much of a draft. As with everything around here, its an experiment and maybe will work out or maybe not, but you know we have to try it anyhow! :)

I've got a few pics of the shed's progress that I'll post later today.

Oliver is growing... he's pretty much as tall as Pixie now, but of course much lankier! I still haven't gone looking for batteries for our scale, so no weight update... I'm guessing he must be around 50 lbs now, though.

Not much else is new... we could use a bit of rain, after all the bitching and whining about too much rain this summer! Things are dry here and its going to be harder to find suitable grass for my goats to eat I think...the stuff that's still available is way at the back, far side of the property and is an area that's dry right now, but can get kinda swampy if it rains. I should've had them over there the last while when its been dry, but who knew it was going to be dry this long? I've already started feeding more hay to help supplement the available grass. It may rain tonight and tomorrow and that would be fine by me.

That's it for now!
--L