Barn Make-over

It may not be as extreme as the Home Make-over TV shows, but I feel like they just rolled the bus away and I got a new house...almost. This was a Farm Club work day prior to Shearing Day which is next Saturday. I had a list of chores and we checked off a lot. The weather was fabulous too--sunny, warm, dry and it's November!

I told Tina I had buckets to wash before I put them all away. You could serve dinner out of these buckets now!

I needed to get the salted pelts out of the stall so I could get them ready to ship off as well as empty out the stall so I can use it. Even though the pelts have cured, the salt remaining on them draws the moisture out of the air and they feel wet. A day in the sun took care of that and we put the pelts  in big plastic bags which went in the back of my car until I can find boxes to ship them. We counted 31 pelts in all--that will be some shipping order!

I have an appointment on Monday with the State Vet who checks tags, etc to monitor compliance with the Scrapie Program. Tina, Greg, and Shelby volunteered to check all the sheep and make sure they all have their scrapie tags and that my paperwork is correct. They did a great job and found just a couple of sheep that needed tags. In the meantime we found their namesake lambs.

Here is Shelby and Shelby.

And this is Tina and Tina.

Kathy and Kathy.  Greg will have to wait. I have two more lambs to name and register so maybe he can pick one of those.

I am so tired of tools falling out of corners, being knocked over, not finding them but I have never put up the gadgets to hang them. This was on the list.

Isn't this cool?

Try to conceal your envy at my organized tools.

I love my stall barn, but it's hard to use the big sliding doors with sheep. The doors work, but I feel like the sheep are in jail and in warm weather they get no ventilation when the stall door is closed. I have been using my Shaul's panels with gates, but wiring them up. Greg and Kathy put eye-bolts into the walls to mount the panels properly.

Shelby found time to play with a chicken. Rusty wasn't sure that the chicken was in the right place.

Thanks to all of you for so much help! Next Fun Day is Shearing!