{"id":1814,"date":"2011-11-14T14:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2011-11-14T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:58:59","slug":"we-continue-to-work-on-the-new-barn-and-the-pigs-get-a-bigger-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/11\/14\/we-continue-to-work-on-the-new-barn-and-the-pigs-get-a-bigger-pen\/","title":{"rendered":"We continue to work on the new barn and the pigs get a bigger pen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will is still working on the floor joists of the new barn, trying to get them all done before winter closes in. (There were more than 90 of them in all! All had to be fit into the support beams to give a flat, level base for the floorboards of the hayloft to be nailed to.)<\/p>\n

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But, our pigs are getting HUGE and their pen seems smaller every day, so we screwed up a whole bunch of free wood pallets to make a much larger pen. We just have to put a pig hutch together next to the calf barn and we’ll be ready to trailer our piggies down to their new quarters. I’ll be so glad; their old pen is getting pretty yucky with mud and the weather’s getting colder. They’ll like their new, much roomier pen better. Or at least WE will!<\/p>\n

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Our old chainsaw just got back from the shop. It had been gradually losing power and Will feared for the worst, thinking it was dying. We had saved for a new saw and when we took the old saw in, we picked up a new saw. There is scarcely a day goes by that we don’t use a chainsaw and our old one saw plenty of daily use with the 40 acres of fence posts to be cut to length and pointed, the storage barn being built, four years worth of firewood being cut, the new barn’s timber framing, the calf shed, clearing fence lines, brushing out pasture, etc. It sure didn’t owe us anything! BUT the happy news is that our good old saw wasn’t dying. It only had a carbon-plugged spark arrestor on the muffler, which choked it out. The shop bill was only $27 and we now have two running, dependable saws. We should be good to go for years and years now. It doesn’t take much to make homesteaders happy! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will is still working on the floor joists of the new barn, trying to get them all done before winter closes in. (There were more than 90 of them in all! All had to be fit into the support beams to give a flat, level base for the floorboards of the hayloft to be nailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}