Beer at Myrtle Beach South Carolina

Today we will rest and play, or at least that is the plan and we'll see what we end up with. :D

A nice bit of internetting in bed with coffee while the chickens thump and chirp and kitties sprawl followed by perhaps a trip to the Taste of Creede. Somewhere in there we'll visit the goats and make a bit of a plan for finishing the Chicken Run. I've no idea why that should have capitals, perhaps from the movie of the same name several years ago. Really I guess I should call it the Chicken Stockade since it will withstand a tornado of epic proportions.

It sure is nice to relax.

That must mean the damned phone is gonna ring.

Here's the new framing for the chickens, they'll head out to their new home in a week or so. I'm hoping this will keep the goats out. :D

the new roof. Just a little more to go on the wwest side

Chickies!

The kids got a professional haircut today.  They hate getting their hair cut but instead of having it take hours, today it took minutes.  I bet Stanley is in the yard strutting his little naked stuff.

The shed/studio work has begun again. Yesterday Crys* went to La Junta to granny sit and I decided to start on some roof framing that needed to be finished. The day ended with my body acquiring a unique temporary deformity in exchange for a bit of blood left on the building :D.

Late last Summer we started on expanding our utility building that houses the solar and water stuff. I nearly doubled the interior space and added a covered section for wood, cars, 4 wheelers.... you get the idea. Winter ended my work for longer than I'd planned. Somewhere in there I also discovered that I needed to re-do the wiring in the original section of the building because I got some not-quite-correct information.

At this point I have the drywall removed from part of the walls in the original building in prep for the wiring job that I am going to have to beat myself to finish because I really just don't want to tear out that beautiful spray in insulation.

SO, I'm working on the roof!

To frame yesterday I had to sink an anchored base for a 4X4 support in the concrete, then do some post and beam construction. All was going well until I managed to drop a treated 12 footer and it just HAD to go through my arm on its way to the ground. This left an odd deformity in my right forearm. Hurt like a bitch it did. So I kept going because this job needs to be done. :D I had to disconnect the fuel line from the generator to set the post so it's offline until I get a nice new exterior 3/4 inch flex connector. Easy stuff that.

I finally got the post and beam stuff up and started running roof joists. Yep, slammed a finger hard enough to shoot cottage cheese out the end. After I got past that I finished running enough roof joists to put up a sheet of OSB. That's where I left it yesterday. In the evening Crys* got home to find me in the tub with blueberry moonshine and soda.

recovery. Good.

We'll see what today brings.