Friday 5 February 2016

Spring Acreage Chores

This summer will be spent pounding tires, but there are so many other chores to get through:

  1. Install vents in rabbitry (we're using one vent hole for the chimney tubing of the wood stove; we'd like to add two for regular air ventilation). Put controllable fans in them too so we can speed up the ventilation process when necessary.
  2. Unhang all rabbit cages, redo insulation, and rehang rabbit cages. We tried to fix the insulation late last fall, but it seems we need to do a better job. Condensation is pooling in a few areas.
  3. Possibly move the camper to a different spot on the property. Why? well......
  4. Put up some posts and goat fencing. EEEkkk! Super excited about this! Last year we had weeds and all sorts of shrubs and grass growing like crazy. Our little push mower couldn't handle it. Tom had to buy a Scythe to deal with it (well, he didn't have to, but he had fun playing around with it). This year we're toying with the idea of getting two small (e.g. Pygmy) goats to keep everything at bay. The camper would be in the way, depending on how we do the fencing. 
  5. Cob the rabbitry exterior. This can be done when we're too exhausted to pound tires.
  6. Install a laundry line.
  7. Install an internet pole. Right now we just have internet in the camper, and sometimes it's a little sketchy on cloudy days. It's through radio waves since we're "out in the boonies". An internet pole would mean more consistent internet.