I have seen where they tear down the barns and sell the lumber by the board foot and get a lot of money for it. Here in Virginia, there are lots of old tobacco barns made of logs with red mud in between to fill the cracks . Who knows how old those are?
Nice work Scg.
Great looking son Alaskan! Proud moment for sure! Congrats!
Good luck on your hatch Penny!
Hi JD
I lost my oldest hen and dh found her yesterday. So sad. She's the Splash Andalusian by the gate.View attachment 1090869
Sorry about your loss!
I am in anchorage....going to a movie in a pizza booze movie joint.
The high life of the big city!
You'd probably like the theater in the town I work in, it's a classic all original and even has balcony seats. They play new movies also but I've always wanted to watch a old one sometime, take my father-in-law. Frank Sinatra, John Wayne era etc usually once a month for $6. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't play Close Encounters of the Third Kind sometime. This month is the original National Lampoons vacation (I've watched that too many times...)Wow, the last time I saw a movie in a theater it was the original Star Wars, no kidding. It was a double feature with Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
So sorry you lost your pretty lady Chicka
Been spending the pm off and on playing 20 questions with a mod trying to figure out why I don't have a bookmark button anymore. Usually the mods are great but I keep having to answer the same questions, I'm beginning to think she doesn't believe me.
(I've decided to just live w/o the button and save things the old way. Not worth the hassle)
There are those types of roofs here for bales/machinery. I see how useful they'd be in your neck of the woods. Here it blows snow on the bales in during winter. I'm not sure what good the roof does other than shade the hay from the sun. I guess that's a good thing...but still.this is pretty much it
Decomposed granite base... Bales are stacked on top of wooden pallets. Ideally the pallets should be removed after the hay is gone and a good rake job to remove the hay from underneath... Also this is how the hay is stored in the fields if they advertize barn stored hay.
another way they store hay in the fields
Believe me the tarps they put over it all are freaking HUGE. remember no snow and very little rain but there will be dew.
deb
I bought a pallet of them...and we stacked them in the one stall in the barn. The floor's cement and it's covered in straw. The bottom of the shavings has molded! 
I didn't think it would've done that with the straw as a buffer. I was wrong. 
