Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

You have a beautiful view. I got water lines run and now have a water faucet at the garden, sheep shelter and barn. I feel wealthy. Do you have water lines run to the orchard and garden? I can speak from experience, connection multiple water hoses is a royal pain. I hope to have black drip lines run by next year.

Yes, the deer will come right up to the house and eat your fruit trees. My husband was complaining about our Great Pyrenees in the back yard barking a lot at night. Turns out, deer were walking between the back yard fence and barn, and bedding down on the other side of the barn in a wild tangle of trees, brush and vines. Also found fox tracks. The deer jumped a 4' non climb horse wire fence to take their stroll practically in the back yard with a big dog barking at them. If you double fence your orchard, the deer will stay out. They can judge distance on one fence, but not two, or so it is said, haven't tried that one.

My Grandpa fenced his garden, then nailed 2x4's to the treated fence posts to raise it to 15'. He ran a cable around the top, then hung black cables from the top cable that hung 2' below the fence, spaced about 18" apart. The deer wouldn't jump through it. Lot of work just to keep the pesky deer out.

Why aren't you using the telephone poles? Rather than burn them, put them on Craigs List. Someone would be happy to have them.

Looking good!

I'll bet you love walking out every morning to that view! You've made wonderful progress!

We had commercial water ran last year so we are just using our well for the garden and a spigot outside the house running down to the shop. I like to recycle but these post were in pretty bad shape and not fit for reuse. When they ran the water line we used the same trench to run the well line back to where we wanted the raised beds. We just didn't know that the rock was that close to the surface.

Finally catching up... amazing, awesome, wonderful , and I love it.



I am so happy for both of you. This was a dream, and a hope... and you all worked hard, plugged away, worked together and now you will embark on a new chapter in life. So glad you share this with us! You kind of remind me of a young newlywed couple. I love it!

BTW- I love the pan rack!

Everything is fun when you do it with your best friend

The inside is quickly getting into shape and we still have some of those things to do when you renovate and say "that's a quick thing and we'll finish later". They do pile up and fortunately for us, Teresa is the more patient and will let me off the hook (most of the time ).

We had a couple of days of work that was needed to take care of some things that we haven't had time for up until now. The driveway up to our house has been neglected because it is so steep and took a full day to just get under control. We have a Stihl trimmer that is a beast but it seems like it weighs about 100 lbs after a couple of hours on a hill.

We finished the last of the planting boxes and finally got the tree off of the edge of the new planting bed.

We also have our first batch of small peaches on one three year old tree. We only left a small amount of fruit since it is so young.

Like mentioned above we also managed to push over a past it's prime peach tree that was on the edge of the new bed.

The last picture is only there because we think this is a good way to use some of the rock coming out of the beds. At least we will think that until we find that it was not a good idea.

It has been too hot to do much of anything but the cleanup continues. We are only posting another because we love the view.

We finally got some rain yesterday for the 1st time in three weeks/

It does look so serene and beautiful!

LOL goats will change all that.

Not 100% sure, but aren't you doing sheep Mike? Same end result probably... Gardens look really good, as does the view.