Not only are we dealing with the stress of the rebuild of our home, but we have been struggling this summer with our haying equipment.  The rake needs to be replaced and the baler needs new belts and of course they break down at the crucial time between sunshine and rain!  So is the life of a small farmer with old equipment!  I guess it’s time to think about trading up to something better.  This year we will have to buy more hay than anticipated, but cows need to eat!  We’ve heard that there is quite an abundance of hay this year, so we should be able to get more for our money anyway.

Meanwhile, we have to start working on a 3 sided structure for the cows to get out of the wind and cold.  We took some steel panels off the burned garage to use so we just have to paint them and buy some lumber.   Hope to get that going in the next few weeks.  Since Craig lost all his hunting equipment in the fire,  he isn’t doing any early hunting so he should have time in September.  Another project is to winterize the water system by October.

The new house will be started next week!  We hired R Tews Construction for the rebuild, who is the designated builder in this area for Golden Eagle Log Homes.  Our materials will be arriving in mid September, and the site will be cleared and  the new basement ready by then.  We have also finished our content list for the insurance company- that was so hard to remember everything we had!  But, we have 2 years to add anything we forgot- and I’m sure there will be something!

Living in the camper is going quite well.  We are still hoping to be in our house by Christmas- so optimistic that we are having our new bedroom set delivered there on December 23rd!  We’ll see about that….!

 

 

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