I didn't see an update on the footer inspection yet. Like she said she's been crazy busy with the haying so hopefully today or tomorrow she will let us all know how the inspection went.
Kristen’s Chickens and Farming Ventures
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Morning @rjohns39! Thanks for letting us know, so I don’t start wondering where you went! I’ll miss your morning greetings, but sometimes other things must come before BYC 
Yes, @aart and @Wee Farmer Sarah, I totally forgot to tell everyone how the inspection went! We have the ok to pour our footings, and the engineer is ok with us sending him pictures of the wall forms once they are done, and may be able to ok that pour by phone! Next is filing the paperwork with the building dept when Andrew goes in on Monday for his bloodwork and arranging the concrete delivery. So more progress coming soon!
@BY Bob, I really wish that 220 was a lot, it was for us old folks in a few hours, but it was just one small field. There are 6 more small fields and 3 larger ones to go. The hay is much nicer than last year though. Our haying “crew” is, with the exception of myself, Andrew, our 1 WWOOFer, and a scandalously
younger (late 40’s!) SO of a family friend, all over the age of 60. We get it done, though that “adopting several teenagers” is starting to look better every year!
If you want entertainment, watching us work is it! One lady weighs slightly more than two bales, and is Totally ok to work now, her last hip replacement isn’t bothering her very much anymore. My back is questionable at best, and my right shoulder is mostly a write off... Ten years of daily cashiering abuse has left me with severe tendonitis in it (that’s why I moved into management!) My mother can’t lift a bale, and Andrew’s two aunts aren’t in the best of shape either. There’s no rain in the forecast, so I don’t know why there’s the need to work at a breakneck pace, but apparently there is.
As to our equipment failures, it’s all on one tractor, that is operated by one person, who won’t let other people run the (now broken) Swather, who broke the last Tedder... and who generally isn’t kind to equipment. There are three dead trucks and one car parked randomly in the field around his cabin. (Can’t get rid of them, they can still be repaired!) He “borrowed” one of mine for a trip into town, it was over four months before I finally got it back... needing a full rebuild on the transmission! (Won’t go into reverse anymore?) Andrew and I bought him a small Chevy tracker from one of our WWOOFers last year to preserve our vehicles.
He is constantly welding the tractor back together (it’s only 9/10 years old!) as he uses it to ram embankments to dig out shale for the “road”
(it turns to a lovely, greasy mud with no agregrate). We aren’t allowed to do any maintenance on it. Year before last, it was A big repair Bill because the air filter was stabbed with a stick, cracked the housing, and she was sucking in dirt and dust, completely destroying the cylinders and gumming the whole engine up 
Bear in mind, until he “borrowed” my truck, he also used the tractor as his daily driver around the farm, only taking the farm vehicles when he needed to go to the store for groceries.
To say we plan on doing things differently in the future, when Andrew and I hopefully have more control over how the Farm functions, is an understatement. Right now I’m just trying not to go completely crazy in the meantime!
Yes, @aart and @Wee Farmer Sarah, I totally forgot to tell everyone how the inspection went! We have the ok to pour our footings, and the engineer is ok with us sending him pictures of the wall forms once they are done, and may be able to ok that pour by phone! Next is filing the paperwork with the building dept when Andrew goes in on Monday for his bloodwork and arranging the concrete delivery. So more progress coming soon!
@BY Bob, I really wish that 220 was a lot, it was for us old folks in a few hours, but it was just one small field. There are 6 more small fields and 3 larger ones to go. The hay is much nicer than last year though. Our haying “crew” is, with the exception of myself, Andrew, our 1 WWOOFer, and a scandalously
younger (late 40’s!) SO of a family friend, all over the age of 60. We get it done, though that “adopting several teenagers” is starting to look better every year! If you want entertainment, watching us work is it! One lady weighs slightly more than two bales, and is Totally ok to work now, her last hip replacement isn’t bothering her very much anymore. My back is questionable at best, and my right shoulder is mostly a write off... Ten years of daily cashiering abuse has left me with severe tendonitis in it (that’s why I moved into management!) My mother can’t lift a bale, and Andrew’s two aunts aren’t in the best of shape either. There’s no rain in the forecast, so I don’t know why there’s the need to work at a breakneck pace, but apparently there is.
As to our equipment failures, it’s all on one tractor, that is operated by one person, who won’t let other people run the (now broken) Swather, who broke the last Tedder... and who generally isn’t kind to equipment. There are three dead trucks and one car parked randomly in the field around his cabin. (Can’t get rid of them, they can still be repaired!) He “borrowed” one of mine for a trip into town, it was over four months before I finally got it back... needing a full rebuild on the transmission! (Won’t go into reverse anymore?) Andrew and I bought him a small Chevy tracker from one of our WWOOFers last year to preserve our vehicles.
He is constantly welding the tractor back together (it’s only 9/10 years old!) as he uses it to ram embankments to dig out shale for the “road”
(it turns to a lovely, greasy mud with no agregrate). We aren’t allowed to do any maintenance on it. Year before last, it was A big repair Bill because the air filter was stabbed with a stick, cracked the housing, and she was sucking in dirt and dust, completely destroying the cylinders and gumming the whole engine up Bear in mind, until he “borrowed” my truck, he also used the tractor as his daily driver around the farm, only taking the farm vehicles when he needed to go to the store for groceries. To say we plan on doing things differently in the future, when Andrew and I hopefully have more control over how the Farm functions, is an understatement. Right now I’m just trying not to go completely crazy in the meantime!
This would all make a good novel
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This would all make a good novel
“Names have not been changed to properly shame all guilty parties...” title it “trials and tribulations of farming” or “Why you should never work with family”
Yes! .....and the island aspect is really what makes it unique.
Morning Kris 
I always want to reply to this. I don't know why..
Happy Fathers Day!
Thank you very much. And to you as well.
Reminds me of the Waltons 'good nights'...but in the mornings.
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