Unloading logs and goat update

We made it back to Kansas safely after an uneventful 12 hour drive with logs in tow.  We drove straight to the sawmiller to unload the logs.  We were very fortunate that he has an excavator to help move the logs around - it makes handling 500-800 lb logs much easier!

This is the load as we pulled out of Colorado

The excavator rolls it, Jeremy and I hold it...

5 logs waiting to be milled

We hope to mill these sometime this week.  Stay tuned!

Before he left last Friday, Aaron managed to dig mini-swales for our fruit trees and a first swale for the grape vines.  He also finished the retaining wall in front of the greenhouse and planted the first 4 fruit trees.  We cannot express our gratitude for all his help enough.  With a little luck, Jeremy and the kids will get the other fruit trees in the ground tomorrow and we'll work on the grapes later in the week.  Once the plants are in the ground, we'll be ready to look at doing the dirt work to start the garden shed.  Oh, and we have to move a bunch of rocks and a bunch more logs.  Its safe to say that we'll be busy!

In other news, the goats are gone.  No, they have not met an untimely end.  We decided that until we are living at the farm full time, we don't want to have daily chores.  There is simply too much for us to balance right now.  So, Rollins (the little black one) has found a home with a family that plans to spoil him rotten and Hercules (the buck) is being bought back by our neighbors.  Both will have wonderful homes where they will be well taken care of.  Sometime in the future when we are living on the farm, we will consider getting goats again.  Until then, we will go back to just taking care of plants on the farm.