Getting Barn Parts

Lisa and I went over to Danville today to help Andy salvage lumber from an old barn. The farmer said it blew down when the big wind storms came through. He finally got tired of looking at it and put an ad on craigslist. He’s been offering the free used lumber for a while. He said that a lot of people called to say they were coming to get it but we were the first ones to show up. He’s going to burn the rest if no one else comes out.

In the truck ready to leave for Danville.

The farmer took our trailer out to the barn site. Our trucks would never have made it through the mud. We had two trucks and the trailer. We were expecting to be able to fill them all. We somewhat over-estimated our abilities at barn demolition. We got the trailer filled.

Lisa loaded the trailer while Andy and I threw the boards towards her. Not “at her”, towards her. She pulled some of the nails and put them in the bucket. The farmer really appreciated that she did.

It was cold out, mid-30s, but the hard work helped keep us warm.

Andy standing on top of the remaining pile. We got quite a bit of the usable stuff. There were some huge beams that we would have liked to get but they were too heavy. 

Lisa and Andy tied down the load.

Piper In Need of Snowshoes

We got the car out today. We had to go into town and pick up some things so I cleared out behind the Kia and got it turned around. Once it was pointing down hill we figured we should be able to get it down to the road. I have to go to Lexington tomorrow so at least I won’t have to deal with it in the morning. The really cool thing is that it made it back up the hill when we got home. Nelson didn’t get over today with another round bale so when we got back I took two square bales down on the four wheeler for the big horses.

I made this rack to hold our boots. Once putting your foot in a snow filled boot is enough. It’s not a work of art but it does the trick. When it’s warm enough Lisa is going to paint it.

The girls helped Lisa fill the horse water.

Piper decided to go run around some.

Piper was ready to join back in the tank filling game.

She forgot about the drift being there.

Poor Piper, mommy is laughing at you.

She was stuck.

A little coaxing got her to move.

Yay Piper!

Almost a Blizzard

For a blizzard the sustained winds have to be over 35 mph. It was close to that today. All the snow that is falling is piling up in drifts. Some places you can see the ground and others its three feet deep. The sheep ran out of hay so we called Nelson to bring over another round bale. The drifts were too high to get the truck out and I didn’t have time to get the four-wheeler started. So I walked down with the feed bucket to meet Nelson. He knows where it goes but we have to put the critters in their pens so he can get through the gate. I could actually get them into the pens without a bucket of feed but that would be mean on a day like this.

 

Fetching Snowballs

It is a lot of fun to chase the snowballs. Finding them in the rest of the snow is not as fun. This was last week after it snowed. It warmed up so the snow got wet enough to make snowballs. 

Satin got a few snowballs but mostly they kind of explode when they hit.

Piper waiting for the snowball that would never come.

They wanted to keep going but my hands were frozen.