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Post by JohnG on May 31, 2007 18:38:19 GMT -5
And yes, I like an organized work space.
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Post by jadedspouse on May 31, 2007 18:53:48 GMT -5
Great thread and wonderful photos, John G.
I agree that saving the lamb and possibly her mom could be good -- at least better than buying a lawnmower -- but I also agree with your sentiment about the potential offspring. At some point we, as animal lovers, have to understand that 1. they can't survive long in the wild unattended and 2. they were bred and raised to be eatten. Unless you have a barn to protect them at night, you might not be giving them the better life you might aspire to give them.
In any case, it seems you are well on your way to a better life for yourself. Cheers!
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Post by JohnG on May 31, 2007 19:40:07 GMT -5
Thanks Jadedspouse.
I would leave them with the flock that belongs to the neighbor who sold me the house. I know he would be happy to care for them in exchange for the right to graze his flock on my land. So the only two things that would really change would be that a) I would be the legal owner and b) consequently they wouldn't get eaten.
I will let everyone know what happens with the sale and if you all start to need passing the hat.
Here is another pic of the little one bounding. She seems to bound around a lot and kind of looks like a kangaroo in this one:
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Post by JohnG on Jun 1, 2007 3:52:29 GMT -5
Sorry folks.
I asked this morning if the deal was really done and found out that the guy who bought them is on his way right now to pick them up.
If it is any consolation, up until these guys meet their fate, they live a pretty idyllic life and being sheep (and hence not too smart) they have no idea what ultimately awaits them.
JohnG
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Post by heartsick on Jun 1, 2007 4:21:34 GMT -5
Good work John! I love this thread!
Heart
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Post by johannes3 on Jun 1, 2007 9:59:26 GMT -5
My favorite thread!!!! Ever!!!! Yay John!!!!!!
Johannes
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Post by jadedspouse on Jun 1, 2007 10:40:49 GMT -5
Such is the life of a farm animal. We should all be greatful that these sheep are living this tranquil life. There are plenty that are being raised in factory farms, not knowing the joy of grass between their hooves or sunshine on their skin. This is about as pleasant and carefree a life as livestock can know. John G -- you should start a blog on your house project. I forgot to mention something I noticed in your pictures that I found interesting. It seems that when they built your house they used some roughly fashioned timbers as support beams (they look like small trees). I thought that was really cool, because I'm so used to seeing uniformly milled lumber, so it is refreshing to see how it used to be done back in the days.
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Post by JohnG on Jun 1, 2007 14:39:36 GMT -5
Today I pulled up the master beams on the ground floor. I began excavating a hole do to the base of the foundation - both inside and outside the house - where the new drain lines will exit the house. I will finish that tomorrow and with luck get the new lines hooked up to the main line outside the house.
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The sheep were sold and I brought the little one down to the trailer. She was very calm and I was sorry that we didn't think of this idea sooner.
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I am including some pictures of flora from the property. Very young cherries, corn, peaches, a rose, and so on...
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Post by gpb on Jun 1, 2007 14:44:18 GMT -5
Hello, John;
Very lovely pictures. Thanks so much for these.
Grace and peace,
Guy
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Post by rosiemj on Jun 1, 2007 15:14:09 GMT -5
Hi JohnG, I now have the new pink Rose as my background on the desktop Thank you so much! I am sorry about the lamb. It is cute!! It will be okay though because this may be something that will come up again.......... Great photos again. God bless you and you amaze me at how fast you work and the great job you do. You inspire me and I look forward to your thread so much. It is a very healing thread with so much hope. It helps me and I can see others responding and it all feels like we are becoming a community. God bless Rosie
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Post by tootrue2 on Jun 1, 2007 23:29:56 GMT -5
jadedspouse said... That's a great way to think of it and so true. That was really actually pretty neat that you would even have asked the farmer about the lamb, John. So thank you on behalf of people everywhere ...like me for instance...who do eat meat, but also live in a six year old world on that topic still wanting to believe meat comes from the grocery store and not from animals. It looks like he doesn't mind being held. I am going to put that on my list of things I want to have done....hold a lamb. Your other photos are also fun to view on this thread....do you have any more farm animals we could name? Could I be any more demanding? Hey John, after you finish removing the floor boards and carefully storing them and refinishing them beatifully, identifying the various woods and history of the home, while also digging the trench for the new pipes, could you go over and ask that farmer if he has any calves for us to name? As if you don't have enough to do! Hope you are enjoying all the work you are doing. That is a great idea someone mentioned of blogging about this. If you stood in one area and took the same photos of that particular place during various stages then at the end they could all be put together in a photo montage like a digital "flipbook" kind of thing at the end of your project. So after you are done asking about the calf, maybe you could make a photo montage. Ok, I will admit I am drinking coffee at night. Thanks for letting us all share in your happy work. This is a very happy thread.
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Post by JohnG on Jun 3, 2007 16:28:59 GMT -5
I removed the stove today. It seems here many of the old stoves were in fact a kind of facade placed over a brick construction. I expected a whole stove (it was a whole stove actually, just it was mostly brick and fire brick and just the front and the oven were actually iron. The fire was made inside a kind of brick chimney that had an iron front and top). It made removing it much easier (or less hard).
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I also pulled out the ugly chimney that someone had stuck onto the house when the stove was moved about thirty years ago. And I removed the drain from the stable that exited out the front of the foundation.
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I started breaking up the concrete floor of the stable with a sledge hammer. I feel like my shoulder has been dislocated. Here are pictures of the floor including the neighbor's feet to give an idea of the thickness of the slab. I am not pulling up the whole floor - just in the living room area as I am going to drop the floor there about 16 inches to give more headroom - it will be easier than raising the second floor which would create issues with floor to sill height. So there will be two 8" steps down into the living room.
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Post by rosiemj on Jun 3, 2007 17:12:25 GMT -5
Hi JohnG, Wow again! That woodstove did look like a full one. Great job! Thank you, this is so nice to follow........ God bless you. I hope your shoulder is okay. Rosie
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Post by JohnG on Jun 3, 2007 17:21:43 GMT -5
Rosie,
Thanks. The oven was really interesting. I had to take a lot of pictures of the inside so that I could replicate it later. They build a whole stove/chimney thing out of brick and then the iron front goes on that and the top then goes on:
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Post by rosiemj on Jun 3, 2007 17:39:59 GMT -5
Hi JohnG, I wondered if you would keep the design... That is important and looks like a great way to have a stove. We have them in Vermont but I have never seen one like that. The ole' timers have all kinds of unique things in construction. The house I grew up in looks a lot like your house with the beams and all. Plaster with very small boards were the walls. My Mom renovated back in 1992 and found all kinds of things with the way the house was built and I wish the beams had been saved but weren't. The house is out of the family now but it still would have been nice. Great job and very interesting JohnG. God bless Rosie
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