More Progress

Another weekend has come and gone and another piece of the project is almost complete. We now have lights and power in the creamery!!! The only thing left to do on the electrical is to run power for the air conditioner. The creamery looks awesome all lit up, but I am wondering just how awesome it will all look at 3:00 in the morning. I'm thinking it may be just a little to much bright and a little to much white. LOL Now we need to put the base boards down and install the sinks. Oh and I still need to paint the doors and trim them out and then........we can set all of the equipment and the creamery will be DONE!!!!! With the completion of certain parts of this project it sure makes it feel like we are "almost" there. Getting Excited!

One Project Complete and a New Baby LaMancha!

WOW! The septic tank was set in place on Friday afternoon and we spent a loooooong weekend working until dark, and later, both days getting the lateral lines in and covered and hooking everything up to the tank. BUT...It is in and that is one project that I don't think I want to repeat anytime soon. On a bright note: When I got home from work yesterday Ciarra had presented us with a new baby! This is the first LaMancha baby we have ever had. I think she is sooooo cute. I have decided that all of the LaMancha babies will be named after elfs. This first baby gets the honor of being named Tinker Bell. :) It's kind of funny. As early as January I still would NOT have ever owned a LaMancha (it's an ear thing with me..lol). In February we purchased the herd of goats from Colorado and there were 4 LaMancha and 2 LaMancha/Nubian crosses. I accepted them as part of the package. After about month or so I was ready for some LaMancha babies because I wanted to 'see" them. NOW....I think Tinker Bell is about the cutest little thing I have ever seen. :) I am thinking that I do like the LaMancha girls. Below are pictures of Tinker Bell and her momma, Ciarra.

The Septic System

We rented the equipment and Chrys dug the hole for the septic tank and the trenches for the lateral lines this past weekend. It was a job that took a full two days (see previous blog) and Chrys was sure tired by the time it was over. They are suppose to deliver the septic tank tomorrow and then hopefully we won't get to much rain until we get the lateral lines in and ditches filled back in.

Septic Digging for the Dairy

While digging the hole for the septic tank that will service the milk barn and creamery we ran into a ledge of solid rock. We finally had to go rent a jackhammer to assist in the removal of the rock. While Chrys was trying to hammer through the rock I kept telling him that I was just certain that he was either going to strike oil or hit a mega diamond vein. :) I'm pretty sure that he was getting slightly annoyed with me. I guess taking pictures of big rocks is like taking pictures of mountains. You just never get the same effect. The rocks which we trying to remove were actually quite large even though they don't look that way in the pictures.

Greenhouse Items

Here are just a couple of snap shots of the some of the things in the greenhouse. These seedlings are right at a week old when I took the pictures.

Spinach

Fancy Greens

Buttercrunch Lettuce

Cammi

I have several things to update on today, but I am going to put them into a couple of blogs to kind of keep the information seperate. First is just a couple of pictures of Cammi. She is sure growing! And she is always in perpetual motion so getting a decent picture is no easy task. Cammi is, evidentally, a "collector". She has all of these "treasures" that she collects and she wants to keep them all right by the door of the milk barn. It is really kind of cute , but it is annoying too. It gets to looking pretty trashy (even though these things are treasures) and I have no idea where she finds all of this stuff!

An article on the Tahlequah Farmers' Market that includes a nice little write-up about us. Thanks Tahlequah Daily Press!

http://tahlequahdailypress.com/local/x977553107/Homegrown-heaven