Growth!

The coolest thing about this past week is that we have our first "new barn inhabitants"! We moved the new chicks into the new chicken coop this past weekend, and they are really enjoying themselves. It seems as though they have doubled in size over the last few days, and they are starting to do real chicken things, like cluck, peck and scratch! They look so gangly and awkward right now, that they are really a kick to watch. We're going to give it another day, and then introduce them to the big bad outside world. One or two days later we'll bring in the big girls and see how the two co-mingle. Keep your pointy chicken toes crossed!

The other development is that we finally got the upper rafters and joists up on the "top" barn roof (hopefully this will put an end to the "barn roof nightmares" that I've been having). One of the pics shows me way up in the air, weilding my trusty hammer. Now, I really do feel like a contractor...but I still get scared...what a weenie :)

Ears Up!

It looks like it's an "ears up" from all of the llamas overseeing our progress yesterday, and that's a good sign. We finally started putting up the rafters and even worked on some interior walls...it's really starting to take shape now! Only a few more steps to go and we'll be putting on some roofing. If the weather holds, we're hoping that will be this week. Keep your toenails crossed :)

This last pic is of our ever threatening sky, taken through our new barn rafters. I just thought it was such a telling picture. ..something about our plodding progress occuring in the midst of Mother Nature at work, makes me feel more a part of the land.

Today, of course...it's snowing.