LATE UPDATE

 I am finally getting around to updating our blog. I have been in the process of splitting my wood and metal shops up into two locations as to make working easier. I have a very long way to go as can be seen by the picture of the inside of my metal shop. I still have lots of stuff to move from one shop to the other including two roll away tool boxes.

One of the projects we completed was to get and install a hand pump on a well we had drilled some years ago. the well had water in it but not enough for an electric pump system. installing the pump was easy, and we in fact had to use it recently as our main well was out of commission for a couple days.

Another project that I am just starting on is replacing the deck on my cement mixer. The plywood has been rotting out so I picked up some expanded steel and angle iron. I will add bracing of the angle iron and then cut the expanded steel for the deck. I also need to change the set up of the engine drive system, that will take some thought.

I recently built a couple of grates for some drain boxes I put is when we first moved into this house. OK I am slow getting around to stuff, but the grates turned out well, probably because of the assistance of Jon, our youngest son.

We currently have some baby chicks and young Turkey poults in the stall in the barn. They are growing quickly, they were separated but when they started to fly over the barrier we had separating them, we removed the barrier and they seem to be happy campers. believe it or not there are three broad breasted bronze Turkey poults and thirteen chicks in that picture

Our cattle were enjoying the day in the sun so I had to take a picture. our cow is a registered dexter (standing up), an Irish breed, the red steer came with the cow when we bought her and the black steer was born the following year, Eddie the cow had already been bred.