I was reminded recently that a year ago today tragedy happened when half of our tire wall collapsed. It took us months of working diligently to get the wall back to where it was when it collapsed. As frustrated as we are that the house isn't finished I look at what we have completed so … Continue reading The difference a year makes.

We are very close to having the roof finished. We have even set a date of May 7 to have the roof guy come and start installing the plywood and metal onto the roof. Last weekend we finished putting up almost half of the trusses. We got stuck on how the corner of the hip … Continue reading Very exciting stuff

Today is one of my favorite holidays! It is Earth Day!! We will be spending our Earth Day trying to get as much of the roof up as possible. Our goal is to have the roofer start by May 7. At that point things should start moving pretty quickly. I will post updates on the … Continue reading Happy Earth Day!

After the devastation last year of losing one of our hives to thieves and the other to the hive leaving we went ahead and bought two more colonies. They arrived yesterday so we had a fun day of prepping the hives for the new bees and transplanting the bees into their new hives. Here's hoping … Continue reading The bees are back!

I am so behind in writing blog posts. Sorry guys!! Two weekends ago we put up 1/2 of the lower trusses. We also started putting up the upper trusses too. We are really enjoying getting them up and it's motivating us to work what little we can through the week too. It still looks like … Continue reading Working out butts off!

We put our first truss up! Only about 50 more to go 😩. Now that we have a better idea of what we are doing putting the trusses up should go a lot faster. It is really nice to have the roof going up too. Hopefully we can have the roof on by the beginning … Continue reading Trusses are going up!!

We have decided that since the soul is so bad, there is little to no drainage, and our tractor broke we will be planting in raised beds. We have put up one so far and added our early spring plants. We have carrots, spinach, lettuce, beets, kale, and Brussels sprouts. We did not anticipate the … Continue reading This the season for planting (almost)

The concrete worked! By this time last year we were repairing the first wall collapse of the season. The rain, snow, and general wet of winter had caused the tires to weaken and collapse. Not just once but twice. It took us until halfway through he summer to be back to where we were before … Continue reading Back to work!!