Dave and I took a few days off from work to celebrate my birthday as well as get some things done. As you have seen in the last few weeks, Dave and I have finished the pen and the coop enclosures, we have a latch on the door that fits securely. Unfortunately it fits SO securely right now that we need a brick to smack the latch open.
Its been raining here in New Hampshire for what seems like weeks but we headed out early Thursday morning to go look at van’s. A van may not sound like the greenest vehicle we could drive but because we cannot [...]
Loosey Goosie
Erosion
We have encountered a few “challenges” or as my old annoying boss would call them “opportunities”.Among other things our big challenge is erosion.
When we dug for the foundation, nestled in the side of our mountain along side a babbling brook (shown on the left after the rains yesterday) that we intended on using for our hand washing, dish washing and sanitary purposes, about 100 feet from the 800 foot well that was dug prior to our purchase we discovered an underground stream. We had to bring extra drainage into the foundation plans to avoid water problems. We were really surprised by this discovery because the previous owners had dug the [...]