Tick Tack

We have been on the Farm now for about a month, it seems like we have been here so much longer. We have gotten so much done in such a short amount of time, so much that we would have never thought of doing given different circumstances When you are put in situations where you are forced to either fix it up or do without you just learn how to do it whether you know how to or not. Since we have been here we have found out that there are a lot of really giving people who are willing to give you so much & help you with whatever need if you just ask. We had a friend named By Golly come by & bush hog our property for us in order to prepare for out Garden, he will be coming back next week to plow everything up so that we can plant.



We have started building our barn, we had someone suggest we build it out of pallets in order to keep the costs down. After checking around with some of the local mills we found one who was not only willing to give us most of the pallets we needed for free but also all of the firewood we needed.




So whats the deal with the sign?

This is an actual sign that we saw in an area we were in. Talk about confusing! So here is a list of what we can remember that we have done on the house and on the farm. (In no specific order.)

*Remodeled upstairs bath.

*Make Downstairs bath usable (it was GROSS!!!)

*Put in wood floor in downstairs bath

*New Carpet

*Wood floor in kitchen (almost done- Thanks Brian!)

*Moved plumbing from laundry room to garage.

*Re-wired parts of the house.

*Dug holes for our fence- On a side note it was not as difficult as digging holes in Tooele. There ts was rocky and dry, at least here the ground is wet!

*Collect firewood for FREE!

*Stack firewood-Chantelle did most of it.

*Catch up on laundry. (at least 3 different times)

*Build chicken coups.

*Chase chickens.

*Learn that chickens come back on their own if you let them alone.

*Learn that chickens will go in their coup on their own at night if they have a small door.

*Heard a chicken snore. Yes, it did snore!

*Build new stairs (Again Thanks Brian.)

*Got 2 goat watching dogs Pyrenese (Huge and Hairy)

*Enjoyed a visit from Josette and Family. (Not sure if Brian enjoyed it.)

*Clean out the waterfall (at least 4 times)

*Explore 5.86 acres of property that takes in 3 different very steep hills.

*Use slate rock as hotplates on the table (Josette's idea)

*Contemplate how to have a date stamp on a chicken's butt so that they will date stamp the egg.

*Laugh with our children.

*Enjoy time as a family

*Have our property bushhogged.

*Mow some areas by hand before we gave up and asked someone to bush hog.

*Roll a 7ft log over the tall reeds and weeds. (That was fun.)

*Pick of ticks at least 3 times a day.

*Tell children to stop freaking out about bugs. (It's not working yet.)

*Unpack a few boxes

*Put up closet bars

*Chasing mice

*trapping mice

*Are you tired reading this yet?

*So are we.

Since we have been here we sleep better ever night. We miss the loved ones that aren't here with us to enjoy this beautiful place.