Inside Barn Work...It Seems To Never Be Done :0)

 Inside the barn...the work never seems to be done.  Since I have accumulated two more horses this past year, we are in dire need of more stalls inside the barn.  This would be easy, except everything needed to be reconfigured.  We had to move the opening for the dogs, we added two more goat stalls for the girls, Rosie and Lena will now have their own stall and the boys Lars and Xavier will still have to share, then we will have to cut a 14 ft high x 4 ft wide door for the third horse Kota.  Today, Joe is going to finish the outside of the dog door, he is going to put up two sides and a roof so the snow and wind doesn't blow into the barn...what a guy! I think he did a great job on the cement and cutting the hole.

 The two new private goat stalls...post's set with cement. Thank goodness for the tractor with the post hole digger on the back!  Dad ...Thank you so much for buying us the cement mixer...it's a back and arm saver!

 The finished goat stalls.  Picking up the gates on Wed.












Joe hammering a handle on the 14 foot pole which will hold up the left hand side of the stall opening for the new horse stall. These long poles are a pain to move.

 Joe says we probably have one to one and a half more days inside the barn until completion; then it's off to the outside to finish the permanent goat fencing.

Time to do your outdoor projects in north Idaho is coming to an end.  It isn't like sunny CA, where you can work outside for most of the year...here once the ground freezes and freeze it does...your outside projects are done :0).  We can feel the weather changing...already the sun doesn't rise until 5:45 ish and it's so nice and cool outside in the morning you have to put on a sweat shirt.  At night time it is getting darker earlier, around 8:30ish...Joe said he'll be glad for the winter...he's tired from all the summer time projects.  He has certainly been working straight through with everything...he works me into the ground...sometimes I just say, "I'm done" and I stop.