Hen23's Journal~Goodbye

[Henrietta23]

DH is a tech ed teacher. He got the brackets etc. as kits back in the 80s. They were at school for years being ignored. No one knew they were there until they were about to be thrown away. So he grabbed at least a handful of them. He planned to build a greenhouse or something one day. Then we discovered a similar kit on a chicken web site. I can't remember which one but if I have time I can search BYC for my posts about it there. I think the angles of the plywood were more complicated than just cutting them in half but don't hold me to that.
BB, the goats have no pasture at all. They eat hay and get walks in the yard for maple and pine branches and grass when we have it. If you look at the second to last picture, the area behind the playscape is now fenced in for them and the panel to the right of the green window has a door for them now. And it's got some insulation now.
We were calling it the Pentacoop when it just held chickens. We just call it the Barn now.

Found it! http://www.strombergschickens.com/
Theirs doesn't seem to built from scrounged materials and basic building supplies the way our is....

In case you couldn't guess DH once dreamed of building a geodesic dome house for himself. Child of the 60s/70s, what can I say???

 

[Denim Deb]

There's a least of couple of those homes in this area.

 

[BarredBuff]

I guess I could have goats then. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Henrietta23]

I guess I could have goats then. Thanks for sharing!

Bwahahahaha, Free, we've got another one!!!
Seriously, you're very welcome and I susect you would love raising goats!!

 

[BarredBuff]

I guess I could have goats then. Thanks for sharing!

Bwahahahaha, Free, we've got another one!!!
Seriously, you're very welcome and I susect you would love raising goats!!

Im sure I would love them. But me and mother hen have already had "the talk" on goats. And its a no.

But dont think I wont lust after everyone elses.

 

[Henrietta23]

I guess I could have goats then. Thanks for sharing!

Bwahahahaha, Free, we've got another one!!!
Seriously, you're very welcome and I susect you would love raising goats!!

Im sure I would love them. But me and mother hen have already had "the talk" on goats. And its a no.

But dont think I wont lust after everyone elses.

Hang in there and don't nag (says another mother hen) DH said no for 21 years to large animals. Nothing changed except his mind.... Someday you'll have your own place and it will be worth waiting for! Was for me.

 

[BarredBuff]

Bwahahahaha, Free, we've got another one!!!
Seriously, you're very welcome and I susect you would love raising goats!!

Im sure I would love them. But me and mother hen have already had "the talk" on goats. And its a no.

But dont think I wont lust after everyone elses.

Hang in there and don't nag (says another mother hen) DH said no for 21 years to large animals. Nothing changed except his mind.... Someday you'll have your own place and it will be worth waiting for! Was for me.

I wont nag. If I do she gets mad for forever and I hate that. But goats are in my future. *gazes into the crystal ball*

 

[Henrietta23]

Ugh, tried to get some of the shopping done as a family. Nightmare! DS got the gimmees real bad, traffic was a nightmare, we didn't get done what we wanted to and I feel like we wasted our whole afternoon.
However, we did find nice 2nd cut hay one town south of us and he has tons!! We filled our little shed with about one months worth.
And I got some decent pictures and made Christmas cards online and had them printed and picked them up at Walgreens in under 2 hours. If I get my act together tomorrow I may actually get them in the mail Monday! We've hardly received any this year so either many people aren't doing them or are cutting back or we were only getting cards from people because they felt obligated to send one after receiving one from us.

 

[freemotion]

Aww, shoot, just got here and was gonna "bwahaha" with ya.....someday, bb, someday.j

And yay on the hay! I may get to the post office on Monday, myself, with a "present" for Donki!

 

[Denim Deb]

Congrats on the hay! The pigs-I mean horses-ate both medium squares that I put out on Tuesday. There was still hay in the feeders, so it should have lasted for a couple of more days anyway. But then again, it's way colder than it should be for this time of year w/temps down into the teens every night! We normally get weather like this in January, if at all. I hate to see what the rest of the winter is going to be like. How's your winter going?