Rollie's Wall

Most of you know that our house was originally Kevin's parents' house.  About thirty years ago, they had a decision to make - paint the house (What! Again!  Already?) or put on some long lasting, low maintenance steel siding.  Well, Rollie would rather swing a hammer than a paint brush so off came the cedar siding with it's shabby paint, and on went the blue/grey steel siding.  It still looks great to this day. 

This is not an advertisement for steel siding.  It is the background of why the goats now have a really nice wall in their living quarters.  Rollie is a thrifty guy, so he saved all of that siding in the pole barn for many years.  Some of it was put on the Winter Coop (paint side in) and more went on the Summer Coop.  Presently we are re-configuring the goat pen within the pole barn.  There is a big wall that encloses the shop that has insulation on the outside of it.  This needed to be covered up - Kevin was thinking plywood.  Rollie was wondering out loud what to do with the rest of the siding that was stored in that spot.  Well, here is what he did with it!

Ranger and his shelter moved today - not much grass to munch, but fresh ground at least.

Turkeys are puzzling.  Penelope has been sitting on these eggs for quite a while, but has now been leaving them at night.  I am pretty sure these eggs are not going to hatch - it was 22 degrees last night!  Pretty disappointing.  We haven't tossed them yet since she went back to them today but probably will have to. 

Meanwhile, Peanut has been laying eggs in the hayshed.  Since they were kind of out in the open, Kevin made a straw bale shelter for them.  She isn't setting, just laying an egg every day.  We'll see how that goes.

Kevin is just itching to get started with planting - today he was cleaning out his new (to him but actually quite old) planter.

I have some plants going in the greenhouse, not nearly as many as in years past.  Out in the garden rhubarb is coming along nicely but the garlic I planted is not up - it's pretty cold still under the straw mulch.  I did find a volunteer garlic though - must has missed it when I dug them last fall. Apparantly mulch isn't always necessary!

Cannot close without some baby goat photos -

Tulip leaps for the spool

Tamarack and Vinca - handsome lad!

Daffodil poses on a stump

Poppy poses for a selfie with me - she is just the most lovable kid!

And a view from the milking stand.

Thanks for stopping by the blog folks.  Until next week - be well friends!