Sunday afternoon was the big day to finish the house for Dottie Belle and Gypsy.  |
| Yes, Don turned the camera on me. |
All we needed to do was one plank on a side, trim it, and shingle the roof Oh yeah, try to square it up. We had to brace the doorway corners, because the little house was shaky and way out of square. Not a big job, right.Well, we were exhausted afterwards anyway.
I learned that I do not want to become a roofer! But I can now say that I have roofed a house. (small goat house)
Now I have to scrape off the old paint, since we used mostly reclaim wood and paint it. The grandsons want to paint it orange. They want everything to be orange. I want it to be pink. But the boys are offended by that. I not really sure they want to admit that the goats are females. So, Don said to paint it yellow. I think it will be yellow, but that is still a couple of weeks away.
Before we worked on the goat house, we planted 6 tomato plants. It's late, but I had decided to pass this year. But Don insisted and said he would help plant them. We are trying a kind called Solar Flare. They are suppose to take the heat. I usually do all the vegetable gardening. I started it as a hobby, then it became an expectation, so I lost my enthusiasm. You know how that goes. So the garden is not really clean. We just cleared out enough for the 6 tomato plants and put ground cloth on it to maybe hinder the growth of a couple of the weeds. I'm sort of freaked out by how terrible it looks, but whatever. Who knows, this small effort may produce more that all the prep I usually do. It will win the tacky award.
