Almost have the wood laid up for winter.
I still have some large rounds to cut to length and split, but that should just about do it. It’ll be nice to wrap up another project. Taught Nathan how to split wood with the awl – he’s doing a good job. Every little bit that he can do helps me in a big way.
Plan on picking up some windows and glass sliding doors from a friend sometime in the next week.
I’ll be using them to close in my screened porch and to build a small, solar passive greenhouse.
I also have to pick up some short pieces of metal siding from another friend. I will use them for siding on the barn addition that I intend to start this weekend. I hope to add on another 12 ft. by 24 ft. section to the barn, which will allow me to open up the “middle section” as a small hallway in between the individual stalls I will build for the goat girls.
We still have to do final picking of tomatoes, zucchini and other items and start shutting down parts of the garden beds.
I have to muck out the goat barn, so I have plenty of manure and rotted hay/straw for the raised beds we are building out front on the hill – need to get those built and covered in straw (along with all of the other beds) for winter.
The office is pretty much done. It is painted and the cabinet/counter top is in place so Marilyn can use her shrink-wrap system in the office instead of on the kitchen table.
it will also double as the “store” for now, until I get the porch closed in.
I still have to install my new “first flush” systems on the individual downspouts, which will allow only clean water from the roof into the cistern. This should make my water filters last a lot longer.
There’s more – but it’s getting late and I need to get some sleep – tomorrow is only Friday.
–Pat