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Life Update ... Summer ... Autumn ... Winter

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Everything that Happened over Summer Back in March, I wrote that I was hoping to blog more frequently since I wasn't going to have school until September. It turns out that there are things beside school which can take over your free time... things like renovating your farmhouse and selling off livestock...and getting ready to attend university. Renovation started in June, right after school closed for summer. We ripped up all the old carpeting and had new hardwood floors installed. We also removed all the wallpaper and repainted the entire house, from top to bottom. We had all the bathroom floors re-tiled and new vanities installed. We also swapped out some older showers for new ones. We changed doors, baseboards, and even window casings. We had the stairs, the bannister, and all the spindles updated. Then, we got rid of our pine furniture and replaced them with cherry or maple to match the floors. And we did most of these things on our own because... well, because its financially
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Spring 2020

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Spring came early this year. That means we have already completed a lot of our annual farm-related chores by now. Usually, we're still waiting for winter to leave and can't really get anything done until the end of April or the beginning of May. There are a couple of things that we have to do every spring such as clean out all the manure from the barn, vaccinate the sheep before they start pasturing, rake up all the dead leaves from the yard, and make the vegetable beds ready. This spring also saw a whole bunch of spring lambs being born (a ewe just lambed yesterday and there are a couple more still pregnant), and we collected some fallen trees for next winter. The first weekend of March Break was spent cleaning out the barns. We got the skid steer on Saturday afternoon, worked until after 10 p.m. that night and continued the next morning until 1 p.m. in the afternoon. While the skid steer is used to clean out the bigger pens, there are a couple of small pens that need to b
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