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[Chaneys Ranch]

Beautiful pics guys!

 

[Leahs Mom]

@Nyla
Wow...what a crazy event. If you hadn't been there your house probably would have been gone.

Hope the insurance will pay for repairing damages?

 

[JanetMarie]

More and more bad things keep happening..
Yesterday we had some severe wind which caused trees to fall on to power poles behind our house. Which cut our power. Then made a transformer explode and catch the trees on fire. A burning tree fell onto our 3 year old sons bedroom. Made part of his ceiling fall in and window shatter. We ran to our sons room and found him covered in drywall and dust a little bloody nose and lip with a bad knot on the side of his head. He didn't cry at all, he was laughing about it! My sister lives in a camper in our driveway came into the house to check on us. Smoke started coming from the roof inside our house so we went outside leaving our son with my sister and found our roof was catching fire from the tree. We grabbed fire extinguishers and climbed to the roof to put out the fire. Our roof wasn't too badly damaged from the fire but about 3 roof boards will need to be replaced and a new shingled roof. The structure of our house was not damaged! All in all we are all fine! We are using our Generator to keep some power and heat in our house. Our son is staying at my parents house till we get his room fixed and power back on. Nipsco said most of the power lines will need to be replaced and their estimated power restore time is between 5 days to a week!

Oh my! Glad the house structure wasn't damaged and everyone is okay!

 

[Faraday40]

More and more bad things keep happening..
Yesterday we had some severe wind which caused trees to fall on to power poles behind our house. Which cut our power. Then made a transformer explode and catch the trees on fire. A burning tree fell onto our 3 year old sons bedroom. Made part of his ceiling fall in and window shatter. We ran to our sons room and found him covered in drywall and dust a little bloody nose and lip with a bad knot on the side of his head. He didn't cry at all, he was laughing about it! My sister lives in a camper in our driveway came into the house to check on us. Smoke started coming from the roof inside our house so we went outside leaving our son with my sister and found our roof was catching fire from the tree. We grabbed fire extinguishers and climbed to the roof to put out the fire. Our roof wasn't too badly damaged from the fire but about 3 roof boards will need to be replaced and a new shingled roof. The structure of our house was not damaged! All in all we are all fine! We are using our Generator to keep some power and heat in our house. Our son is staying at my parents house till we get his room fixed and power back on. Nipsco said most of the power lines will need to be replaced and their estimated power restore time is between 5 days to a week!

Oh my goodness! What a scary series of events! So happy to hear your family is alive & well.... and that you still have most of your house. I hope your insurance pays for all/most of the damages.


Several years ago we had a flood (& sewage backup) in our lower level & crawl space. It was a nasty mess to clean up & rebuild, but insurance gave us some of the cost. We were planning to remodel anyway, so it forced us to do it a little sooner as well as toss some unnecessary stuff. To stretch the money we did what we could ourselves. We also learned how to live using only 2/3 of our house for about a year. Fun times!

 

[Faraday40]

From the mouths of babes....

DS had a hmwk sheet today about machines. The kids had to come up with a list of common machines found at home.

For each row the kids had to write, Machine Name, How it helps, & What people did before the machine was invented.

Our DS wrote: Incubator.... hatches eggs....used a broody hen. It makes perfect sense to me.... and it IS a machine used frequently in our home.


I'm sure the teacher "gets him" by now.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

From the mouths of babes....

DS had a hmwk sheet today about machines. The kids had to come up with a list of common machines found at home.

For each row the kids had to write, Machine Name, How it helps, & What people did before the machine was invented.

Our DS wrote: Incubator.... hatches eggs....used a broody hen. It makes perfect sense to me.... and it IS a machine used frequently in our home.


I'm sure the teacher "gets him" by now.

I love it!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Day 2 Belle and Nubian goats behind electric fence. Belle is terrified and its just breaking my heart. I've been in the pen several times today, she is so scared. She got 1 hard shock on the nose when they went in and she won't go anywhere near it. I feel awful. Nubian also have not had electric fence, so all 4 critters are pretty upset. I know it will keep her & her goats safe. Doesn't make me feel any better about it.
My Oberhasli aren't a bit afraid of her so this weekend we will join the herds together. Mocha and Eve are the dominant does from both herds, Eve is 2x Mocha's size! I have noticed Belle doesn't allow fighting so that will help. The new pasture will be a 3rd acre we have 2 large electric netting fences, 328ft long. Going to try to get pics tomorrow. I plan to use the netting for the garden this summer to keep the ground hog and deer out.

 

[Leahs Mom]

@jchny2000
Sigh. It is HARD to watch when they're training to the fence. But once they get the hang of it it's a wonderful thing.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

@jchny2000
Sigh. It is HARD to watch when they're training to the fence. But once they get the hang of it it's a wonderful thing.

Agreed. Its worth it to me, I'll be buying more fence netting units for the chickens. It's worked very well containing my cows but we use a wire system for them. I'm sold on electric fencing 100%.

 

[Faraday40]

Guess who went for a walk today?

Here's Teddy sporting his chicken harness.

I don't know who was more confused.... the little roo or all the cars passing by.