08/29/2008 Friday. Cleaning the Goat Pen

Overcast and humid. Not as bad as yesterday.

I noticed on my way to feed the chickens that some of the beets have come up. I'm pleased about that. And surprised.

Worked on my computer in the morning.

John McCain picked his running mate (VP) and it's a Governor from Alaska named Sarah Palin. No one seems to know much about her. She's pro-life.

When Ryan came we dragged the wheelbarrow out to the goat barn along with a pitch fork each. Ryan began cleaning the goat pen which really needed it. While he was doing that I picked up branches and pitched them over the fence onto the trailer. Later Ryan dumped the trailer onto the burn pile near the house. We then worked on barn cleaning. I guess we got about half done. Ryan had the hard job of dumping the wheelbarrow while I took layers off the top and put them where he could easily pick them up to put into the wheelbarrow.

In the middle of cleaning we stopped and did some fencing. Yesterday we took apart the duck pen. I moved the stock panels to the area near the small sheep paddock by tossing them over the fence. Then we took out the end of the fence and moved it to the south side and reattached it to the corner fence. The second panel was run from the other corner. The third panel linked the other two. We slightly rearranged the fence before I used my spiral connectors to attach two or three panels together depending on the configuration.

So now, I have a larger second paddock for the sheep to graze.

After we finished the fence Ryan and I continued cleaning the barn we worked for another 40 minutes and called it quits. I was really getting tired.

Tonight we are having round steak, pasta with cheddar cheese and swiss chard. Yum.