Harvest Moon

This weekend was the harvest moon.  I hope you all had a chance to spend some time after dark enjoying it's glory.   It was a beautiful sight just as the sun set and also in the morning before sunrise.

It was another enjoyable and productive weekend here on the farm.   First up, a special thanks to all the visitors that have stopped in to see the farm and visit with us.   We had Alan and Laura stop over to put up the trail camera and the tree stand ladder.   Great to see them both and now I am dying to see what his trail camera picks up at the woods.   Bill and Carol also stopped in for a short visit.   We are so thrilled with all the positive feedback we have been getting over the farm.   Thank you everyone for seeing the potential that we also seen and for supporting our dream.   It's a labour of love and this is a life long journey that we have embarked upon.   Sometimes being at the beginning seems so daunting but looking optimistically forward I see such a fabulous adventure...it's hard to sometimes wait for the next day to dawn.  :-)

Progress report for this weekend...
The new shelter in pasture #2 has been started.  DH and I man handled the 24 foot 6x6's into position after DH made all the lap joint cuts.   It's going to be a nice large run-in.  Both DH and my dad think I am requesting shelters bigger than necessary.   My thought process is that I want to have shelters in every pasture that would be suitable for at least 3 horses to fit under comfortably even if there is one boss hoss that wants the full shelter.   This is the first try at this...so if it ends up being too big, we can always make the other 5 smaller!

Here are the supplies before start...

Here is the progress so far...

We had the duct work cleaned on Saturday.  Again this poor contractor found lots of debris in the ducts.   Large chunks of wood, drywall and one thing that I dropped down when I was sanding the floors he was able to fish out...a half full water bottle.   We also went ahead and had him run the anti fungicide through the system.    We figure it can't hurt after all the gross-ness we have discovered so far.

Quotes are starting to come in for the new roof on the house and also the new roof on the bank barn.    It's been a struggle to get contractors to even call us back to set up a time to quote let alone even get quotes.   This has been a long drawn out process already and we haven't even got to the point were we have enough information to pick between steel and asphalt for the house.  

Pasture #3 has all the old fence removed and all the new insulators installed.   Just need to pull the new wire rope and hang the gate and we will have 3 pastures secure.

I can see that fall is starting to get its grip.   We have a lovely old maple tree out front that I believe is going to be beautiful for Thanksgiving.   Here it is at the start of its transformation...