We have been blessed with a week of gorgeous weather here this past week. We made good use of it and began working on our barn.
Structurally the barn is sound and sturdy. Its just not pretty... yet. The barn board needs a good cleaning, the steel roof is beginning to rust and the eaves have fallen off in places. It has been many years since the barn has seen animals in it. The last owners had teenage sons that had converted half the barn to a games room. Pretty cool for teenage boys I have to admit... however I am pretty sure that chickens, ducks and horses wouldn't appreciate the laminate wood flooring, the massive games table or the pin up girls. :)
Renting a disposal bin we began going through the barn - keeping what was still useable to us while purging the items that were not (including an aged treadmill). As we were not sure what we might find, the littles were kept busy elsewhere as Derek and Nicole worked away on the barn.
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| Kubota 1 : treadmill 0 |
I should note that we had a couple of pleasant surprises! The original wood barn flooring was intact under the laminate and looked great with a wash, and all the barn boards for the original horse stalls are present and easily slid back into place!
We now have two box stalls with packed dirt floor and a smaller area for chickens! Our Chantecler chick order has been placed and are ready for pick up very soon... but that is a whole other blog post!
Jeanette
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