Saturday, November 6, 2010

Our new home

We have been working on getting our home started. Robert keeps saying, "We will start on the house as soon as crops are in." Then he gets a chance to get more feed, so we wait.
The well drillers finished drilling our well Friday Nov 5th. They told Robert they were surprised at how good our water was, cold and clear. We are excited about that, now we need to dig waterlines into the barn and corrals. We did get a letter from the Division of Water Resources that our application had been protested. We need to do a few things then hopefully we can use our well soon.
Our contractor gave us a tote full of floor plans, none of which we liked. He had us go to his son, to have him draw up some plans for us. He sent us an email with all the things we wanted in our home. We loved it!! We will have to see if we want to make any changes.
So life has been pretty good for us. This has been a very busy time at the barn, we now have 21 calves in the hutches. We are milking 56 cows with I think around 20 dry cows ready to calf. I have a hard time remembering how many cows that we have, cause all I do at the barn is milk. Robert asked me the other day how many cows we are milking, I told him I wasn't sure, I just milk until they quit coming in.

Getting in shape!

After workingout at the gym for the last three days---all I can say is Aggh! I have felt muscles that I forgot that I had. I am excited to see results, just wish it wouldn't take so long. Ruby and I signed up to go to the gym, her dr said she needed to lose weight and my dr (me) said I needed to too.(Ruby is Rick and Tara's foster daughter) Ruby and I are planning on hitting the gym 3 days a week...well that is our plan.