04 March, 2017

February Happenings

Why, Hello Folks! 
Yep we are still alive haha and no, we haven't fallen off the edge of the earth! :P
Sorry for the long wait for a post! I'm sure some of you have given up waiting! 
Well here is a peek at what we have all been doing. :) The dairy is coming along quite nicely, and after a few set backs we are back on track again! :)
Painting the floor was the next step after painting the walls. We chose this beautiful blue! 

P.S. Sorry, some of these pics are a little blurry, they were taken on phones.




Next came installing the water heater, sinks, and ac units,




We got the cool box up and running this week, and it was down to -10 F*  in minutes! 
The milk stanchions and the pipeline system. 
We got our bottling machine, now it just needs to be installed.  
We got a new flock of chickens from TX.
Now you can only imagine the stacks of eggs we have to put away.
We get around 45 dozen a day! ( This picture was taken right when we unloaded them so they hadn't found the hole to the outdoors yet.)
Our weather has been very mild this winter! Not to complain, haha it has been lovely! 
Mowing off the raspberries.
 It's crazy to think they will be all grown up and ready to pick in just a few months! 
The boys cleaned up behind our shop.
What's with boys and fire? LOL I wouldn't know except that they somehow attract each other!
Apparently this is an easy way to clean up leaves and grass. 
Mom made some delicious pies the other day!
Least to say we had 2 raspberry pies gone in one day!
We will just say there are three growing boys in the family! ;)
Joylin just got back from visiting a special friend of hers! ;)
I was kept very busy doing all the milk deliveries and eggs without her.
I'm glad to have her back, but I'm glad she enjoyed her time with Spencer Cook in Canada.



 ~Joanna 




05 January, 2017

Golden Rule Dairy - Under Construction


I was hoping to keep you all posted a bit more often on our progress with the dairy, but we've been so busy that finding time to sit down and get it done is a different story. We were hoping to be finished by the beginning of the new year, but with a few hold ups our finish date is moved down to February. We are getting excited as the day draws closer! :) Here are just a few pictures of what we have been up to. 


We got the electrical in...

Next was that itchy job... insulation! 






Ready to start on the ceiling of the milk house.

Siding up next...

All up and ready to start spackling...

Spackling the ceiling...

Putting up the siding in the storage room.

Got the cool box installed.



Spackling the walls of the milk house.

Spackling can be bit time consuming so we all jumped in to help get it done.


Almost completed.

Next comes sanding!

Joshua plaining...

Ready for painting.

Painting the first coat. The guys had pretty sore necks after they finished this job!


Second and third coat...
Time for the walls to get their first coat.

The guys putting on the next coat while us girls went around the edges, painted door wells, etc...

Almost finished the second coat. Its been raining pretty good the past few days, so painting has been on hold. We have one more coat to put on in this room before we can start on the floor.


We were able to get the first coat on the inside of the cool box.



Thanks for helping Micah! :)


Today the guys are sanding the storage room getting it ready to be painted. Each day we draw closer to being finished. It has been a fun experience! :) I think we will all be happy when it's finished though. There's not much time to do anything else.