Maple

We have decided on a butcher block solid wood top on the island and thought we could purchase a premade one, maybe at IKEA or online, maybe at Lowes or Home Depot. We were wrong, we could order them from companies that charge an arm & a leg but not from a box store.

I put an ad on FB for one & the places were wanting $1,500 for a top, quite a lot more than I had planned on paying.

Then last week Ryan posted that he was selling his stash of boards that he had been hoarding for 7 years so I bought enough to make the island top, about 4x3.

 

 

We will have these cut down to 1x1 pieces and put it together. My dad has a nice shop with all the tools we'll need, all the cutting machines, all the flat spaces, clamps, correct glue, etc.

One more step closer to being finished.

 

This morning we installed the new Bosch dishwasher, finally figured out how to use it and I CAN'T HEAR IT GOING. I am upstairs but I've never had such a quiet machine before.



The first time we were ever here the back pasture was all weeds and sticker bushes,

sections of it were 20 feet high.

We've worked hard to get them under control and keep grass growing and its coming along nicely.

 

Now that the new barn is going in its time to get the ground ready but the bulldozer is out of commission so the Kubota is doing the work.

This is where the stalls and runs will be, the lean-too on the left will become the aisle way and the stalls will be on this side of it, with runs in front of the camera extending out to about the tractor. Its slanted to create run off and about another foot of dirt has to be removed so we can bring in sand for the runs.

 

This is where the gate to the back pasture is, I could barely get through all the weeds

back in October 2015.

 

 

There isn't any scotch broom growing here, because the ground has enough nitrogen for

grass to grow instead of just weeds.

 

 

 

 

 

 I really like the view of the barn from this angle, from under the maple tree.

It's going to be nice to update this in the coming months.

 

 

Two more views I can't wait to update, from inside the arena.