This was one of last week's projects over at the farm....
bathing and storing 5009 squash.
Well, OK, maybe that'a a slight exaggeration, but there are certainly enough to last the year.
We've been having frost regularly and everyone is putting the gardens to bed for the winter. (I can't believe we're already using the "W" word. shudder.) We folded away the plastic mulch...
and installed a brand new pair of rototillers....
They went to work immediately.
They'll have the entire garden worked over in no time.
The pigs over at Farm Buddy's destroyed the ramp that lets them go in and out of the barn at will - back and forth between their pen and the outdoor playground. Pigs are phenomenally destructive creatures.
So, a very small building project was in order. We decided to recycle an old barn door for the purpose....
After a bit of reinforcing and some slats added for strength and traction, it made a fine ramp.
We put some scraps of plywood along the side so that they won't create a den under the ramp. We don't want them undermining the foundation of the barn, something they are more than capable of doing. The ramp itself is sturdy and firmly anchored to the barn.....I do have some doubts as to how long the plywood will hold up though. If they decided they want to go under it, there is not much short of nuclear weapons (or electric fence) that will stop them.
The finished product met with instant and gleeful approval, "yipee!!!"
Up and down, up and down, oh what fun when the pigs go to town...
...and then start looking for ways to either eat it or destroy it, preferably both at once.
