BYC Café

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Morning! About 3 inches of snow, not sure if we will get the storm total. It is still snowing but not hard and it feels cold. DH and I were using the tractor to load logs onto the sawmill yesterday. We got quite a few cut before the temperature started to drop, right around 3:30 PM. He was a tired boy with all of that outside time! We had a crew of people there to help with the boards for picnic tables, signs, shelves, benches, hearth decoration, and a kitchen countertop. There was a trailer of unspecified wood to go off and dry for later use. The next time we run the mill, there will be logs cut for us; flooring in the living room. We are going to put in a rustic floor there and the Ponderosa is a nice dense wood for pine. Some of these logs border on mahogany style dense. My neighbors are way cool and I love that way we all pitch in to get stuff done up here,

That sounds fantastic Margie! The wood sounds absolutely gorgeous.
You can even make use of the trimmings from the logs. That's how I made my pigs' housing area. Going to use some again for my new coops this year too. Waste not... you know the rest.

 

[pennyJo1960]

get going late today still on the first cup

 

[CapricornFarm]

Nice job Cap! Have you been busy with sign orders?

No but i am making some to take in to the consignment store. The Smith Mountain Lake people have lots of bucks.

 

[pennyJo1960]

This is the trailer. We closed in the porch, which doubles our living space 3 seasons out of the year.View attachment 1242742

You actually make that look fairly comfortable

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

You actually make that look fairly comfortable

It is actually... except when the floor freezes.

 

[CapricornFarm]

It is actually... except when the floor freezes.

Someone on here put a layer of plywood over their floors and it helped warm them up.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I should have a litter of spring babies (bunnies)in 2 months. Looks like Trouble knows his stuff!

 

[pennyJo1960]

get sheets of insulation place them on the floor then rugs or even plywood help to insulate from that

 

[Mtn Margie]

Coffee... water.... both. I just came in from helping burn 30 slash piles down on one of the valley sides. I think I am a few pounds lighter. 16 and still snowing a smidge, breezy. DH plowing the driveway now cause the storm is about done up here.

 

[Treerooted]

good to know.

So he is breathing well?

Has his stay been like a roller-coaster ride? Or a slow and steady improvement?

It's been steady, so that's a relief. When they tried him off the cpap at the other hospital he never had to go back on.
But he still thinks he should be fed passively, and isn't quite strong enough to feed more then once a day independently. But as he gets older and stronger he should be able to increase that, and once he's got the hang of it he can go home!
Hard to say how long that will be though.