Coffee anyone ?

[Mini Horses]

Yes...ocean does help us. However, after I went outside, stepped off the porch and had no more wind block from the garage at that end -- WOW! Wind chill in full force. Then, checking water troughs, layer of ice on most. Also found new twin goat kids. Hershey had gone into the barn, warmer with no wind! They were dry, up and nursing. 2 more black boys. I swear, 16 and 13 black kids.

Fed everyone and went to work. Things were under control.

 

[Bruce]

And dang, leave Texas?

Who would do such a thing ????

BUT, DD and DSIL might change jobs several more times and you really do not want to be changing "homesteads" every couple of years.

That was my first thought.

I want to build a post and beam frame with cordwood infill

If an 8' 2x4 is $10, how much would a 30' 8x10 or 10x12 cost????
Post and beam or timber frame?

I know nothing about mortar and welcome any light you can shed on it.

What I do know is if you have an old foundation with lime cement you MUST not do repairs with Portland cement, they shrink and expand at different rates. Care to look at my foundation?

and a few of the workers were watching very closely. I almost wish I could have paid him to dump it at my house lol.

I bet he would have, free dump! And how much you wanna bet the workers scrounge the good wood after closing?

 

[Alaskan]

Wait, you seriously don't have those? It isn't abnormal for us to have 40+ degree temp shifts. It is 70 here today which is nice, but I know we aren't done with snow for the year.

Never.


Today our high is 30, our low is 28.

But, I just checked the weather, super big temp swing is predicted on Monday. Yep, a low of 19 then all of the way up to 31 for the max.

 

[Alaskan]

@Poka_Doodle , I think it's an ocean thing. The ocean is nature's geothermal regulator.

Yep... ocean.

And we get warm water... comes to us straight from Japan.

 

[Baymule]

@Bruce we have pine trees. A friend just bought a sawmill!

 

[Bruce]

And we get warm water... comes to us straight from Japan.

Hopefully no longer radioactive

 

[Simpleterrier]

Just a pic I snapped at a local chain store today it will make u cry

 

[farmerjan]

 

[Baymule]

Good morning y’all. Coffee is ready. Breakfast will be at the auction barn, order what you want. LOL We loaded sheep last night, 6 ewes, 1 has twin ram lambs, 1 has a ewe lamb, and a 3 month old ewe lamb. 10 total. When we come back, we’ll wean off the ram lambs and maybe ewe lambs.
Here goes. Culling the flock, half my ewes, the barn suddenly looks so empty. The ewe lambs I’m keeping are 10 times better than the ones I’m selling. The culls all have names, I raised them, but they have to go.

 

[Simpleterrier]

Sometimes the barn looks better half empty @Baymule off to the scrap yard this morning it has turned into an almost weekly thing to haul a load in

Did u make enough coffee so I can fill my thermose?