A Bit More Siding Has Been Put On

I haven’t been able to work many days on my workshop in the last 2-3 weeks due to a number of other activities but I have managed to get a bit more of the siding put on.

Here are some more photos showing the progress that has been made.

Just a small amount more and the 3rd side will be done.  I have one small problem—I’m running out of weatherboard so the 4th side will have to be sided with metal roofing material.  It should work just fine.

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More Workshop Photos

There have been a number of interruptions the past two weeks but I have continued to make progress on my woodworking shop. Here are a few photos.


The purlins have been put on as well as the facia boards.


A start has been made putting the roofing metal on.


One side of building has metal roofing completely installed.


The other side of the building has most of the metal roofing on.


The roofing metal is all on, the ridge cap has been installed, and the windows have been put in. The windows are from an old mobile home that was being torn down.


The double doors have been hung and a start has been made on putting on the weatherboard siding.

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Further Progress On My Workshop

Although I spent some time helping Darryl, picking blackberries and doing other necessary activities I got quite a bit more accomplished on my woodworking shop this past week.  Here are a few photos.


The loft flooring is all down.  Toby is checking it out!


The two end stud walls were built and set up.


The two side stud walls have been built and erected.


Here is another view with all of the loft stud walls in place.


I got the rafters cut and put up Friday afternoon.  Hopefully, next week I can get the purlins and the roofing metal put on.  We’ll keep you updated.

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I Observed Something Unusual

 

 

 

I went over on the neighboring property this morning to pick wild blackberries (they are just beginning to ripen).  I was in the middle of a patch of blackberry plants when I heard something coming through the brush and weeds from the woods to my right.  I looked up to see a coyote come running into the grass of the pasture where I was.  It was headed across to the woods on the other side of the field, off to my left.  Immediately behind the coyote, about 30-40 feet came a deer.   The coyote ran on across the field, a distance of only a few hundred feet, with the deer right behind it.  The coyote went through the fence and on into the woods, the deer jumped over the fence, and it was obvious neither saw me standing to their side, maybe 40-50 feet away.  I was amazed to see a deer quite obviously chasing a coyote.

Some time later, as I had worked my way around the field picking berries, I was startled to have a small fawn jump up from a few feet in front of me.  It ran into the woods which was only a few feet from where it had been laying.  This spot was probably only 75-100 feet from where the coyote and deer had come out of the woods.  The picture became clear to me, the mother deer was chasing the coyote which was a danger to her baby. 

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Workshop Progress

Here is a photo essay of the work that has been done on my woodworking shop over the last two weeks.

The sills and the floor joists completed.

About one half of the flooring has been put down.

Here is the flooring totally installed.

The back stud wall has been built and raised into place.

One side and the front stud walls have been built and set into place.

The last stud wall in place, ceiling joists beginning to be set and the stairway to the loft area built.

  All of the ceiling joists are in place.

Salvaged rough sawn boards formerly used as purlins being put down for the loft floor.

This is a side view taken after all my tools were put away this evening.

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I Have Begun Building My Woodworking Shop

Last Fall I decided that I would like to have a small woodworking shop and knew I couldn’t afford to build one without coming up with some used material.  I posted about getting an old house to tear down.  (You can read about it here.) I finally finished that aspect of the project and Darryl took his trailer up and helped me bring the last of the lumber home. 

I have a back yard stacked with boards, rocks and metal roofing.

I have decided to build the workshop on block piers rather than  a full foundation.  This last week I got the blocks set and filled them with concrete.

This picture was taken before the blocks were filled with concrete.  You can see that my back yard isn’t very level!  The building will be 14’ wide and 16’ long.  I plan to put a loft in it for storage.  In the background in this photo you can see my barn and the woodshed.

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Sadly I Have To Report The Passing Of Annie

Annie came to us June 6th, 2005.  She belonged to a lady Darryl had gotten to know before we moved here.  Annie was an orphan, losing not only her mother but her three siblings at her birth in 1999.  She was raised for some period of time in the kitchen and became a real “people” goat.  When the lady was preparing to move from her small farm in the summer of 2005 she was seeking good homes for her animals and asked if we would like to have Annie.  We were thrilled to get her.  Although she had already raised several kids she was not a new mother when she came to Cedar Ridge.

In the nearly 5 years she was here she presented us with 13 goat babies.  On January 24, 2006 she had quads.  With a little help from us she managed to raise all four.  We still have one of her daughters from that kidding, Brownie.  The next year Annie had triplets on March 3rd, 2007.  The little buck was stillborn but we raised both of the little does.  We kept one and she is one of our current milking does, Zoe.

On March 28, 2008 Annie gave birth to two little does.  March 16th, 2009 she had twins again, a buck and a doe.  This year she again had twins, a buck and a doe.  We named them Abe and Abby.

Just exactly what was wrong we aren’t sure but Annie developed some intestinal difficulties and very quickly weakened and then died this last Sunday night.  Our immediate concern of course was for her month old babies.  With some effort they have both now, finally, begun to take a bottle.  Hopefully, we can find homes for them where they can be cared for.

Annie was quite special and will be missed by all of us here on the farm. You can read a couple of previous posts about Annie here  and here.

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