It's a barn!

Yesterday morning Amber took the girls into town to do some much needed grocery shopping. While they were away, the boys and I worked around the place. The weather was awesome, so we were in the spring cleaning mood. It wont be long before we will be getting calves back in our pastures. I taught John how to drive the four wheeler He drove around while we examined the fence situation in a neighbor's field that may let us pasture there for free. Looks like we would need a mile of electric fence to take advantage of that, so we'll have to decide whether it will be worth it.

We then worked on the barn. Until now, the barn has been a huge storage unit for all of our extra stuff that we didn't know what to do with. We gutted it and set up six stalls for baby calves. We are thinking of getting a small handful of newborn calves to bottle feed and raise up. However, they recommend having a pen for each calf to prevent the spread of disease. Our barn has tracks in the walls and posts that allow us to slide 2x8 boards in them to set up walls. We how have six pens ready to go.

John and Jace set up the swings and the trampoline as well. When the girls got home we had a picnic lunch and the kids played on the trampoline and swings. Oh, it really got us in the mood for Spring and Summer.