Like this area between what will eventually be the girls area and the boys area will be on the right where my guys are working on the ladder. The long area where the tractor is sitting will eventually be the girls area of the barn. Joel and Jeremy removed the corrugated metal wall and lots of thick locally milled boards between the tractor area and the foreground area. Just doing that one wall sure made it seem a lot lighter inside that side of the barn.
Here Jeremy and Joel are removing even more of the corrugated metal in preparation for the concrete guys. Once the concrete is poured in these areas, the metal would be submerged in concrete and much harder to remove. Yup, good thing Joel thought of that! He's pretty smart, you know?
I think Jeremy was having way too much fun using his tools to cut the metal to length. He sure has been a huge help with this enormous project.
To give you some perspective on the areas of the barn......this is going to be the boys area. The girls area is to the left in this shot. My entire contribution on this particular day was to use the leaf blower/sucker-upper thing and I sucked up all the leaves that were cluttering the ground inside both stalls. Yup, it was a tough gig, but somebody had to do it.
As far as the chickens are concerned life just goes on as usual. They've been enjoying free ranging all over the farm this summer. Unfortunately, that will soon come to a halt as we put up their electric poultry netting once again to protect them from a fox who has been hitting the flock lately. We're "down" a few chickens and the fox got one of Joel's prized roosters, too. Bummer. That just means that a couple of the "new" roosters will get to live on another year as they will replace the rooster that we lost.
Making steady progress,
Debbie
