So, what to do after eight months of home renovation? Well, the garden was cranking, having somewhat recovered from frost in June and hail in July, so there was lots of harvesting and food processing to do...
And we cut, raked, baled and stacked 78 bales of hay in our second cutting. Not enough legumes in it to be prime goat hay, but good to supplement the alfalfa bales that we buy from a friend across the valley.
We'd been realizing for some time that Jeanne couldn't milk goats twice/day forever without a break, and that we really needed to get something built or bought that could be offered to someone to live in as barter for them helping us with the farm so that we could occasionally have a break. We hadn't managed to find the time to build another tiny house (or to even finish our own, which still has no shower, an unfinished attached greenhouse, unfinished attached summer kitchen, and unfinished exterior walls). So, Linc found this nice tiny home on wheels on Craigs List, at the right price and had it delivered. It weighs 9000 lbs, but we found that our 89 Toyota could move it about the farm as we worked on setting up a spot for it.
With the old backhoe, which is seriously in need of some TLC, we dug a trench 150 feet up the hillside to where we buried a 1000 gallon cistern, and installed a water line to a spot that we leveled out above the garden for the tiny house.
Linc's sister Gretchen and partner Ken showed up on the way home from their trip to Wyoming to watch the solar eclipse, and boy was it great to take a break and spend some time with them. Here are Jeanne, Gretchen and Ken on a hike around the Lost Lake trail that Jeanne and I hiked back in June, and the photo below that is what they were all pointing at. Hard to believe this is all so close to home.
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