So close to moving in!

Lots of progress has been made on the house over the past few weeks.  We now have electricity and water - movin on up!  Our goal move-in date was by Thanksgiving, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.  We are aiming to move the weekend of December 12 if all of the paperwork can get done by then.

Something else super huge happened this month - our first baby goat was born!  Opal had a baby girl on November 1st - we named her Carly.  We had a little drama with a poopy butt that Opal wasn't taking care of (I mean, I really can't blame her), so I was going out to the farm every morning and evening that first week, but after only a few days, the situation resolved itself.

Here's some pics from this month:

Got the back deck on

Electricity box I think... ?? :)

Got the porch fans installed

Future kitchen - electricity on!

Got the stair railings installed

And the back deck railings

The chickens are molting - this one especially bad!

Opal had a baby on November 1st!!!

The llamas and Ruby watched the action

Precious baby girl

Sticking close by her mommy

We named her Carly

Mama Llama lovin some Carly

Fred and the other chickens check out the new house

Columns in the foyer

Kitchen cabinets were installed!

King of the castle

Bar area in the bonus room - we're going to put a kegerator in that place on the right :)

Got the door handles installed

Hanging out in the new cabinets

Lovely kitchen

Those damn chickens again

Farmin it

Tractor ride with Daddy

Jason and Scott did some rooster population control one Sunday

Cutest baby goat ever!

Nice looking Edison lights

Checking out a stool to see if it will go with the island

Burning some wood in the firepit

Riding the Cat tractor

Chickens flocking around Dolly

Ezra found the brick layers' sand pile

I think this is the most beautiful hen!  (Don't pay attention to the mud splatter, it rained for 10 days in a row and got pretty nasty)

Check out that fireplace!!  And the lovely fireplace model :)

They sealed the floors - we decided to go with a natural finish - we're both really happy with the way they look

Love it!

Ezra's cool war plane fan

They put the apron front sink in, but it's not positioned correctly yet so it's hard to see

Love the laundry room

Looking into the den from the kitchen eating area

They got the railing up!

Have you hugged a baby goat today?  

Ezra showing Big B some love

Preparing for the big move of the red building down the hill - I requested that we move the wind mill so Jason and Ezra took up the stakes

We spent 5 hours cleaning out the red building so we can move it away from the front of our new house - landscaping starts tomorrow!!

Unfortunately it looks a little rough now, but we'll get everything moved back into the red building soon enough.

Finished the coop, and the house continues to move along

Well, my 2nd full time farming stent came to an end on 9/28 when I started commuting into Atlanta again on a 3 month contract at WellStar.  So it's been a pretty hectic 4 weeks and I'm just now getting around to doing another blog post.

The good thing about it is the house seems to be exploding with progress.  The trim is up, the walls are painted, and probably the coolest part of all is that the huge front porch and back deck are up.

We also finished the newest chicken coop project and have been struggling to get the upstairs chickens to make the move into their new coop.  Fred and Darla and the Americaunas always head right back up to the upstairs coop when we let them free range downstairs.

Well, here's the pics from the past month or 2:

Norman enjoying some strawberries

Working tirelessly to finish up the coop

View of the house

The goats "working" to clear some land for us

Ezra carries some scratch to the chickens

That's a gang o'chickens!  

Ezra found a big ole mushroom

The house is green!

Ezra checks out the fireplace in the new house

Jason and Ezra do some mowing

We finally got the coop secured

Dot was the first chicken to figure out the fancy nipple bucket waterer I made for the new coop

We finish the goat shelter and they got some good use out of it

Enjoying some hay

Jason cut down a couple of dead trees

 A couple of chickens were really eager to try out the nesting boxes in the new coop, before we could even get hay in there

Our doors in the new house - I think they're awesome!

The hardwood floors got installed

That's the kitchen

We had some stumps ground a couple of months ago, and we laid down some fescue seed in early September.  The grass is starting to grow and should be ready for the animals to graze in May or June.

I noticed Opal's milk sack filling up, so we moved her and Ruby back into the fence to keep and eye out for goat kids.  Still waiting...

Ezra letting Mama Llama get somebody else's food.  Dot tries to get some too.

Animal feeding apprentice

We moved the gang o' upstairs chickens down into the new coop.

Jason digging more holes for the fence in the front of the land

The front porch begins...

Now we can sit on the front porch!

More hole digging up near the front of the land

Enjoying the front porch :)

Another view of the chickens in the new coop

Columns and bricks were added last week.  Fans also installed on the front porch.

Ezra's room

Upstairs guest room.  Same color as the master bedroom and bath - it turned out nice.

Looking good!