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Guess I forgot to post the resolution to that. I started digging that Friday and found the leak in the very first spot I dug. Turned out when I patched it from where I hit it with the auger I had made the patch just a little bit too long and had the line in a bind and causing it to flare out a...

Meet Maximus, Prim (as in Primrose), and Blaze. They were born on Saturday. They weighed in at 7.38, 6.69, and 6.90 lbs. Saturday evening. As of yesterday they were weighed 8.5 lbs, 7.7 and 7.9 lbs. so they are growing quite nicely at just under 3/4 lb a day. Pretty good for being cold and they...

Guess I didn't do it so right after all. I got a love letter from the water company yesterday. We used an excessive amount of water. When I got home last night sure enough, the water meter is continuously spinning.:bonk: I shut the valve off going to the barn and it stops. So that is the good...

This is the east side of west bound Callie. She is getting close to delivery. We took her offsite to be bred, best we can tell is she is due around the 24th if she goes the average of 150 days - but they can go +/- up to 5 days. She could also be due as early as 21st (meaning she could deliver...

We must have done something right with the water line. We were -9 the other night and it didn't freeze. So I figure if we made it through this without freezing, we should be good to go.:hide:

I stopped at Rural King last night to pick up some supplies. They had winter formula Washer Fluid on sale for $1.39 a gallon. I picked up 10 gallons. I need around 25 or so, only got 10 because A.) the cart was full B.) with the bad roads we had, I didn't really want to throw any more weight...

I knew you were in PA, but for some reason I was thinking Indiana, guess I had a brain fart this morning. Well, there is a goat show in Wooster as well, that is getting us closer.

Thanks Brian, I'll keep that in mind. If I haven't filled it by mid-May, I may look you up. We will be at a goat show in Springfield, Ohio so I would actually be fairly close to the border. It would also be nice to meet you after all these years of talking online.

I'm trying to talk Monica into letting me buy a Cheetah Blaster. Found one on Craislist for $120. Looked new. I figure if I watch around, I will be able to find the WW fluid for less than $1.50 per gallon. I believe last time I put about 25 in each tire. So should only cost about $40. I'll...

The tire ended up leaking back down pretty quick. I didn't mess with it a few days, I let it sit flat a few days - big mistake. When I took it off the rim and started drying the inside of the windshield washer fluid, the rag caught something. It was another piece of wire in the side wall. I...

Oh, this is also our second attempt at stalls. First attempt was 3 boards, 9" from the ground and 12" apart. They either just crawled under or hopped through. Now the bottom board is about 7" from the ground and there is only 8" between the rails. Seems to have stopped all of them except our...

Yes, the dirt is a bit mucky. All of the rain and snow we've had in the last couple of weeks didn't help. It was doing pretty well in there until I hit that water line, that made it a bit of a mess. The little pump I had didn't have enough pressure to really move the water to far away, so I...

Sorry, I haven't been good at update this thread with how the barn has been progressing. It is progressing, albeit very slow given the weather we've been dealing with here. The girls seem to like their new home now and a lot of days where it has been cold/rainy they don't even venture out of the...

Oh, BTW, not sure if it was still up this morning or not. But I know that I will probably have to let the air out of it again and clean around the rim good to make sure all the dirt and mud are cleaned out good so that it isn't leaking around the rim. I knew that it was pretty much impossible to...

Let me start by saying I've had a slow leak in the left rear tire of the tractor for years. It started when I ran a piece of barbed wire through the sidewall. That was probably in 2005 or 2006 somewhere around there. I took it in to Dad at the tire shop (Dad was in the tire business for 40+...

Wow, what a crazy 4 days it has been. The builder finished the barn on Thursday. Then on Friday we put the fence posts up to enclose the area at the back of the barn where we had taken the fence down. Finished the fence on Saturday and I did some back filling and such with some stuff out of our...

Barn is almost done. They were there working until after 6:00 last night and with the time change it was dark. All of the metal is on, all 3 doors are hung. Basically he has 3 corner pieces yet to put on and a guide on the one goat door and stops on both of the goat entrances. One thing he has...

Monica picked the color. She thought a barn should be red. Kind of settle on the gray roof because A.) it looks good with the red, B.) it will absorb a little bit of heat in the winter but yet not be so hot in the summer The have done a very good job of keeping the work site very neat. Most...

We are getting close now!!!:wow: He is hoping to finish it up this week. He had to pull off for a couple days to go back to a job that he was working on but they were waiting on some material, so he went back to finish it up, but he is still planning on finishing this week. First shot is the...

They made pretty good progress yesterday. At this point, I think most of the framing is done. Metal is to be delivered tomorrow. They aren't working today. As you can see from the 1st picture, it is now the outline of a building:thewave: The second and third picture show something that I...