Busy, busy....

Well 8 months have come and gone. Lots to write about! So we bought the farm! So exciting! Started in March renovating the farm house, which was built in 1927. Took us two months, 14 cans of paint, and cost around $7,000. Totally redid Reid's walls, insulated, dry walled the walls and ceiling. Painted Erika and Annika's rooms. Painted master bedroom and ceiling, and put in new carpet. Painted living room and put in new carpet. Put down laminate flooring in dining room. Painted front entry. Painted office and put in new carpet. New linoleum in kitchen. Totally gutted the bathroom down to the dirt under the floor and re-did everything. Reid's room and the bathroom were the most work. We were so happy in May when we could finally move in! Still have a couple more painting jobs to do but I figure leave that for winter. Soon after that we put the mobile up for sale, took a couple months but it finally sold!

Reid passed playschool at the end of May, the girls passed grade 5 at the end of June!
Went on our vacation to Wood Lake again, took in some more wineries and actually found a winery, Volcanic Hills, with a kids corner with toys and stuff for them to do while I perused the wine selection. That was awesome. lol


The rest of the summer consisted of work around the farm. Because of the drought the barley didn't grow good so it all ended up as green feed for the cows. So Darren had a huge amount of baling to do. He had a lot of help though, friends came by with their own equipment and helped him bale which was hugely appreciated!


Kids started school beginning of September, the girls grade 6, Reid Kindergarten. So far they are all enjoying school! And they have already caught a case of the sniffles. Reid can't seem to shake his cold though.


Found out the sunroom has ants! Grrrr! So I have been battling them for about a month! From the looks of things, they have been living there for quite some time! I'm talking years! We have to tear into the sunroom floor and see what's going on under there. Hopefully find the nest.


We put in another pasture, just finished that last weekend. A water line was put in for another automatic waterer, so Darren got the cement pad poured for that on Saturday.

Our mobile home also moved out of here Saturday! Yay! It was bittersweet seeing our first home being taken away. But we are so happy it's gone, now we just need to figure out what to do with that empty space where the trailer was.


Chickens are doing good, the numbers are going down though. I'm finding it tough to go out there and deal with them, I'm not enjoying them like I used to. I'm hoping that changes. It really is nice to have fresh eggs!


So it's been pretty busy around here, the projects keep coming, still have to put up a long wind fence and build another shelter.


Soon we will bring the heifers home from down the road. I can't wait till they come home! I miss them! lol Darren tried to AI them in the spring but only a couple took. Had to do a second round of it, I'm hoping more took. A friend of ours had to put some heifers and his bull with ours, he had no pasture because of the drought where he is from. We are hoping his bull cleaned up the heifers that weren't pregnant. There's going to be some preg checking in the near future!


Still haven't got any combining done, everything is too tough. We've been getting rain every 3-4 days now, which we could have really used in the summer. It came too late. Still a ton of bales to move to the yard as well.


So there is a recap of what's been going on around here. Hopefully this winter will be more relaxing than the spring/summer we had! I'm also hoping for a tropical vacation this winter too! Gosh darn it, we deserve it!