Sunday, October 18
Saturday night was the coldest so far this fall. It dropped to 41 degrees. I looked outside this morning and the fog is so heavy I can barely see across the yard. High temps today should reach into the upper 60's. This is good weather to continue stripping the layers of old roof off.
Have I mentioned that we would be in a house by now if we had just bulldozed the old house down? Building is SO much faster than removing almost the whole house and now the old roofs. Yes, that was roof with a plural S at the end. Joe and I removed the old red metal roof and are going to reuse it on the shop or barn. We got about 1/4 of the next layer up and I called
Tiffany's boyfriend and got his brother and cousin to work on removing most of the other layers on the front side of the roof. Thank goodness, they are coming back to finish that side after church today.
After looking at umpteen roof/ house color combinations, we have switched from a brown roof to a hunter green. Brown on brown would have just been too dark. Besides, 50 million US Forestry brown cabins with green roofs can't be wrong. I think we will be much happier with the dark green metal roof.
The cows were up by Francis' barn so we were able to get our calf ear tagged so we know which one to keep at our place. She is weaned, but still hung out by momma when several were penned, so we could identify her to tag her. Charolais are cream to white colored so it can be very difficult to tell them apart. Momma cow, Heidi, is part something else and a reddish brown with a distance white markings. We didn't tag her because she is very easy to ID.
Granddaughter Tiffany was able to get three of her cows tagged and identified her bull calf. It was impossible to tell which calves belonged to which cows so she will get her two calves marked when we see them with the tagged moms. I am so proud of her for buying a small herd of 5 head of cattle last year. She will sell the bull calf this coming week. Two of her cows now have babies and a third should calf this winter. I know it is hard for her not to buy new clothes, or get material things young people want today, but she has such good sense and is making such a good investment with cattle. When the other kids things wear out, Tiffany's cows will be continuing to multiply and increase her savings. You can sell cattle on any Wednesday and Thursday back here at the sale barn if you need immediate cash.
If this fog ever lifts I need to get the rest of the facia board painted so Joe can get them up. I think they go up before some channel for the roof goes on. I was hoping to have Thanksgiving at our place, but may be lucky if we are in by Christmas. There is only so much Joe can do in a day, and thank goodness we aren't paying me by the hour! It takes me 20 minutes just to get a tea and my tools together before I can think of actually doing something. The interior is where my work really kicks in. I can paint, trim, tile and put in outlets and bulbs. I am going to learn to help put down laminate flooring and hang drywall.
The 4 baby chicks are starting to get feathers and little combs. I am pretty sure two are roosters so I need to sell them soon. All 11 baby Guinea keets are growing and starting to get feathers. Their little necks are starting to get longer. They look like long necked quail right now.
Enough rambling for today.
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