At the end of the day, Sunday, May 9, 2010Well, the weekend could not have been more beautiful May 8th & 9th. We spent the entire weekend at the farm, sleeping in tents Saturday night. With no electricity it is REALLY dark at night but we had our lanterns and flashlights so we were prepared. You can really see the stars at night with no lights around.
We managed to put up 33 - 2ft. x 14 ft. metal panels on the roof this weekend. We ordered 50 but have to wait a week for remaining 17 as we took all that Shelly's Lumber had. We got 3/4 of the roof completed. It is time consuming getting the panels up and after a while, I am ready to move onto something else... like the floor or walls. One more work day though and the roof will be complete, then the rest should go quickly.
We went to a friend's farm Saturday night for dinner and the idea was for everyone to bring something 'local' to eat, either from their own garden or from a farmer's market etc. There were beautiful spring onions, strawberries from a local Mennonite farm, tomatoes, mozz. cheese made locally, corn bread made from corn grown by the person who brought it (he has his own mill to process the corn) and other goodies. We brought honey from our bee hive and it was really sweet. Our bees must be the sweetest bees around to make such good honey. :) We won a couple door prizes; a dozen farm fresh eggs, homemade blackberry jelly and homemade canned peaches plus a container of fresh picked strawberries that are so sweet.
Cris and I are sore from climbing up and down the ladder and from sleeping on an air mattress Sat. night that had a slow leak. We both were already half asleep when our heads hit the pillow Sunday night.
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