Last week Friday John took leave for a week so that he could do same building.
So he managed too get a good Shabbat. Sunday it was full steam ahead. Off John and Ishmael went to go and cut a few trees down and bring them home. They managed to get home around lunch time as everything was very wet from the lots and lots of rain that we have been having. Lunch was made and eaten and then off to cut the wood that they had brought home that morning. John cuts all the wood and Ishmael chops it all up and then packs it in the right places.
Well that is being done John starts the fire for our hot water. We have a donkey on the side of the house that we build a fire under every night and with in half an hour to a hour depending on the temperature we have boiling water for our shower and to do the dishes with. So we need a good supply of wood all the time, it has also been very wet and cold so the inside fire has been on every evening as well.
Sharna Ishmael chopping all the wood after
John had cut it.
We had a very sleepless week with the gale force winds that have been keeping us up at night. The other evening at 2am we all levitated out of our beds with a building block that fell off the wall that John is building and landed on the roof that we are sleeping in at the moment. So needless to say that was about the sum of sleep that we got that night, we also had the front door slam 10minutes after that so I had to get up in the cold and windy,rainy weather and sort it all out.
John had managed to do quite a lot of building, he has completely closed off the one side of the house, it is just the one wall that need to be finished and that should not take longer than 2 full days of building. So now the back and sides of the house are finished and it is just the front wall that needs to be done. I am very please and cant wait. The next lot of cash that comes our way will go into putting the glass in so the windows are closed off and the wind then will no longer be able to come and tickle my toes and keep them cold.
But in the mean time John got us 2 new chickens. This time we are doing it properly and got proper egg layers. We will also be getting meat chickens for the deep freeze.
John will be putting fencing up around our large polls outside for the chickens as we want to keep them close to home because of theft.
We also had to get Ishmael in the garden again as with the rain comes all the weeds, So Dad and Ishmael have been preparing the ground for the next planting season.
We were given a beehive, so off John went on Sunday to collected the hive before going back to work on Monday. We DONT have the hive yet as because of all the rain the roads are all VERY wet. It was a lot of fun for them as the first car tried to go up the hill and just kept skidding back and then ran out of petrol in the middle of trying to get up the hill. So they walked to the top of the hill and got the land rover and tried to pull the car up, Yes, now both the car and the Landy are sitting at the bottom of the hill and the beehive is halfway up and still waiting for John to collected it. Next week is another week, now we wait and see what it will bring.
Aimee and Sharna bringing Mousse home after a day of grazing out in the field. Aimee thinks that she should be a tree, to bribe Mousse to follow them home.
So here`s to a good week to all and we will be back soon with more on the home front.
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