Spent some time down with a cold not even able to repack much, but yesterday I started putting knobs for more electric wires on the fence posts of one of the strip pastures to get the peeing and pooping does out of the barn. Today I finished the knobs, but I'm in for a break. No more hammer time for today I hope.
The kids are happy during the day and enjoying a smaller home with a more kid friendly layout, but in the evening they break down and want to go home. Yeah, moving with kids sucks. Last night the three year old tried to run away in walmart to the kids bikes and tiny electric cars section because he wanted to take the one that looked the most likely a normal car and drive back to his "big house". He went into full meltdown mode and was bawling his plan desperately all the way out the door and into the parking lot until he and daddy sat down and had a sad talk together with lots of hugs and then we could go home (he wasn't trying to be naughty. He was being a sad, scared, lost feeling little boy). They will get past this, but I'd rather not move again for a long time. Public transport is good enough here that even if DH has to change jobs he supposedly has options around the area he can get to still with little to no driving so we should be fine.
Pen for the bucks is here. I got one for the does, but I opted to just finish adding live wiring to the darn fence in the middle strip. I hope it works.
I didn't get pics of the buck barn because I got stuck on removing our house stuff from the main barn. At some point the movers decided to start dumping things there and I need to get it all out before rodents get it if there are any and stuff got dusty. It was my first day back after being sick, so I have a lot of compensating for lost time to do. I got about halfway through getting everything sorted and moved to their organization location either in the house, garden shed, or buck barn.
I've put Iris through a course of masti clear followed by another one of today. Her production is up from where it was earlier, there are still knots-damaged udder-but today I don't feel like she was as tough, fleshy, and tacky feeling as they are when they have active mastitis. I'm not sure she'll ever produce what she was producing again but if she can milk with a healthy udder and be a brood doe I think I'd be happy with that. Her udder doesn't look terrible from the outside either. It would be nice if it still shrunk down like it did.
We've had one showing on our log cabin home. Original feedback was that the husband loved it and there was a lot the wife would change. The house was custom built by a man by his own designs and hands and it's a very masculine style so I'm not surprised, but what I am surprised by is that they want to put in an offer, but they want a contingency for their own house sale which we're only willing to do if they offer asking price to not put us out any farther so...we'll see. If the house sells well we can pay off most of this overly expensive one (one of the smaller houses in a very over priced area due to DC proximity) and be able to refinance and pay this one off like a normal mortgage.
Either way, I guess I STILL owe this thread buck barn pics. Or maybe project pics, because, you know, pics or it didn't happen. (time to go charge the phone)
Males... and their stupid hormones.....
maybe it wasn't used much.....of course, there's the junk pile possibility. 
