Itty Bitty Hooves

Working Up A Sweat

June 7, 2007 on 1:07 pm | In goats, farm, life, home |

Oh brother I did today. I don’t count everyday chores as real ‘work’. They are just part of the routine, and I have them arranged so that I can take little breaks in between each set so I don’t get overheated or overtired. Sometimes though, there are things that need to be done that require heavy-duty strain. I usually wait until Bob is here to do stuff like that. Then I either help, or just let him do it.

I have had a project I wanted done for some time now though, and unless I lay it out it won’t get done by Bob. If I start it, or tell him what needs to be done and we have the stuff to do it without too much ‘it would be better with this, or that, or it’s not perfect that way’ arguments he’ll do it.

This project is something I’ve been planning, and thinking about, but never exactly said ‘let’s go do this’. Today I decided to do it. I have to admit that part of the reason I hadn’t done it before is half of the pannels I wanted to use were in the other field and I never got up the energy to drag them over. It just so happened the other day when Bob was here I mentioned I wanted them out of the other field and he moved them over for me. So now I had no excuse. All the pannels I wanted to use where in the area I wanted to use them.

So this morning I decided I was just going to do it. Even if I only got part of it done it would be a start. I really knew that it wouldn’t take that long once I got going, but it would be physical so I left myself the little ‘out’ in case it got to be too much for me.

I did it though. I put up all the additional pannels and connected them to the existing pannels in the kid run and now the weanling goat kids have a pen twice the size they were originally in.

The original pen was 12 x 24. The new pen is not square by any means so it can’t accurately be laid out in an ‘a’ x ‘b’ size, but it’s roughly 48 x 12.

I can’t say it ‘looks nice’. I mean as a fence it looks so so. The reason for that is the pannels are chain link dog run pannels we’ve had for over 12 years and have been used for so many projects I can’t even name them all. They sure have given us our money’s worth for them though. I CAN say that much for sure.