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.

Springtime at the resort

We've had 2 calm weekends at home in a row. It's nice.

We got snow on both weekends, but just enough to make it wet and happy outside. Sometimes we even get a little work done, trimmed the goats faces and "parts" along with their feet yesterday. We'd put that off for too long so we'll have to re-do them in 3 weeks or so and get them back to nice normal looking goat feets.

Our friend Pablo was out this weekend, so we go a nice weekend of fun. It'll probably be kids for the next couple weekends so it's nice to have the mix working out. Didn't get a bonfire going, maybe this coming weekend when Mason is out.

I gotta get back to working on our studio. It's almost warm enough to start roofing. Still gotta wire, insulate and drywall in there. Then I'll cut open a door between the sheds. After that? Pottery and glass!!!!!! And I'll start the final prep for our outside brick kiln. This will be a year of finishing up and settling in. And that's a good thing.

In Springs headed home. Needed us a waffle fix.

Ethopian beers on a Friday night in Denver. J J Dinner tomorrow night.