It is amazing! The progress is fantastic. After seeing more of the floor, I am really glad I did not try to drive any piece of equipment into the barn. It would have fallen through in places. Hector is out there digging away right now (1000). Probably another two days. It will have taken him seven days to dig it out. I will need to work on the foundation before I can move the wall in. After surveying the rafters, I am going to have to halve the barn on that side. The wind tore up the roof support beams that were left for almost another 20 feet. I hate to make the barn smaller, but in reality it is so much more barn than we will ever use even after it is shrunk. If we do nothing the barn will disappear by falling apart. Not a very dignified ending.
Look at the dark patch along the walls. That was the height of the sheep dung in the barn! Hector is still digging (1530). I went out and had a conversation with him. It was an effort in frustration. He wants to work, as he can see all the stuff that needs to be done on the farm, but I had a hard time communicating that I could not afford him to work all the time. I got him set up to take a day off tomorrow and come back on Thursday. He will finish the barn and then dig out the attached lean to on the back side of the barn. That will let me tear the tin off of that roof and take down that addition to the barn. I will use the tin over the part above where the sheep will be hanging out. I truly do understand the importance of mucking out the barn in the Spring now. I will need to get some straw to use in the winter.
You can see the different levels and layers in the barn here. I will get a hose and pressure washer out here before I do anything else and get it all cleaned up. Seems like overkill, but it will make it far easier for me to tell what is good wood and reusable. Besides once every 100 years the barn can have an inside shower. See the black mark on the wall? It is much higher in the back of the barn. Everything is starting to dry out here. I have not been watering the lawn (no mower, and sheep have been banished from the yard for eating my roses). So I tried the age old tactic of not watering. It helped but I almost killed my grape plant in the back yard. So I am now watering the yard and starting to drag our hoses to the surrounding sheep pasture to get about 50 yards watered around the house.
Annmarie forgot to lock my chickens up the other night and I think I lost another one. I have 27 hens now and 1 rooster. This doesn't include the 13 babies I just got a couple of weeks ago. Predators are not my friends this year. If only I could keep a weed eater going...
Here is a picture of the fields I just took yesterday. We have cheat grass everywhere!!
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