Building Walls

Last week I took two days off work to try to get some work done on the brewery.  This weekend I tried to finish what I started.  Well, I did not get as far as I wanted, but then I always plan for too much.  What I have got done was pretty good.

I build and framed an interior door.  This is quite a task if, if one has not done it before. In the end it took a surprising amount of time to complete.  However, now that it is done it looks pretty good.  

The other task I accomplished was framing the partition wall.  Since we plan to have a sales area, we needed to have an interior wall to separate the brewing and sales areas.  This was not too difficult a task. The only problem was that since it is 9'4" from the concrete floor to the joists above I had to build the wall and then build a short extension to connect it to the floor above.

So I accomplished a good bit of work over the last two weekends. Hopefully, I will soon have some more videos and pictures to post.

New Life For an Old Bird

I hope everyone had a good holiday season.  Things are going well here at the farm.  The most noteworthy occurrence has been the resurrection of one of our chickens.  Maybe not a true resurrection, but a pretty good comeback.

Our last remaining Leghorn had been laying misshapen, wrinkly eggs for some time.  Then she laid shell-less eggs for a while. This could be a real mess when she would try to lay in a nest that already had other eggs in it.  The membrane of the shell-less egg would break and cover the other eggs in goop and make a mess of the nest box.  Eventually, she just stopped laying all together.  That was a few months ago.

Imagine our surprise when we found a perfectly shaped, extra-large white egg last week.  The next day brought another.  Then another the day after that.  She has now laid an egg for four days in a row!  Pretty good for a three year old Leghorn!

Doors

A bit of progress has been made on the brewery as of late.   We have put on one set of doors, the loft floor and the blocking on the first floor. We are moving forward.  I have also, for the first time in three months, got some homebrews going.

Below I have posted a photo of the new doors and some videos for your entertainment.

Cheers!

The new doors are in place!