Reed Ranch- Cute & Tasty

Tuesday

Asa has the next five days off and we were going to go away for the full five days but with so much to do around the farm and Grandpap here to help we decided to only go for a few days. Today we worked on more fencing and we just getting started and we ran out of wire for the electric fence. It looked like there was more on the spool. We had hope to get the next paddock area completed for the goats today but having to run to Agway for more supplies killed our momentum. We hope to finish by 11am tomorrow so that we can make a goat auction in Govenour by Noon. Our momentum was also altered by the oil man showing up, people coming for Hay and AR peeing her pants 2x because she was having too much fun outside with us to stop and go to the bathroom. Oh but I did forget to mention the 10 trips back to the garage to get something else we needed. It was nice the one day we had our truck. We put everything we could think we would need in it so we didnt have to make the millions of trips back to the barn. There is too much to carry in one trip so you try to pack as much as you think you will need and hope for the best.

I cant remember if I mentioned we now have a truck. Grandma bought it in PA. It is very nice. However it is broke at the moment. Asa went to go to work yesterday and it quit. It was the fuel pump and it is getting fixed. We should have it in the next couple of days.

Yesterday I ripped out the carpet between the bathroom and the blue room. The carpet was orange shag which was very shag less. The pad was in better shape than I thought it would be but there was still pee stains from cats ( I assume). It smelt before like cat but we tried to mask the odor but now it is even worse. The original flooring (five inch tongue and grove plank boards) were covered up by plywood. This area is where the floor sagged the most so we think the original floor was rotted? Where the orange carpet connected to the much older and more used blue carpet was interesting. The pad that ripped away from under the blue carpet disintegrated. A quick peek under the blue carpet revealed years and years of dirt or cow manure which had worked its way through the carpet. It smelt terrible. I am sure the previous owners didn't take off there shoes when they came in from the milk barn. It made me want to pull up the carpets every where and clean the bare floors underneath and put remnants down as a quick fix.

Asa and Grandpap had gone to Lowe's last night and they took AR with them. QT was home with me and Grandma. I was pulling up the tack board along the walls with a little crow bar. QT took the biggest one we had and was laying on her belly trying to maneuver the tool. It was so cute this little girl so interested in what I was doing and trying to help with this great big crow bar. She was really in the way but I just tried to work around her. It was too cute.

Asa and Grandpap on the way to Lowe's hit a coyote on highway 81 going about 65 mph. The coyote didn't live and our van survived fair. Asa said there was a dent in the bumper but I didn't notice it.