Even More Slow Progress On The Farm

Well we have a little more progress to report on our first straw bale structure at the block. We now have the roof in place and the frame work and the roof is also double lined with aircell insulation and builders blanket insulation that looks the same as pink bats with sisalation but do not have the same itchy factor when putting them up.

At the moment though because there is so much going on at this time of year things have come to a standstill in the building department as we also have had a few half finished jobs on the go and have decided to finish them first. This is a little frustrating as I really wanted to get into finishing the shed but never mind these things happen.

One of the jobs that we have to now finish is planting the rest of the trees that I am still keeping alive and repotting into bigger pots so that they can survive a little longer before planting them out, and also we have to whipper snip around the plants that we have already planted as now the grass is getting so high that we cannot see them. The baby goats have been having a field day eating the grass around them and also sticking their heads into the plastic bags to see what delight they can eat but luckily they have pretty much stayed away from them.

The other job that we have to finish is plumbing in the rainwater tanks as we have discovered that they are too tall to catch water. We now are going to take the tanks that we already have and move them up to the header tank pad so that we have 3 tanks up there so we will definitely have enough water to irrigate our vegies and trees when we get them going. We will then get a couple of smaller tanks to catch the water off the sheds instead.

We have had quite a lot of interest in the straw bale procedure, from people that we dont even know, but have heard about what we are doing. It is amazing, Tassie is really like a huge country town, you really have to watch what you say and do sometimes, which is not always a bad thing as word of mouth can sometimes be a powerful tool.

I am soon going to be working on our website for the business, which will be pretty exciting, so I may have to procure the services of Monte to help me out a little on this one, so watch out for it.

I have put in a few photos of the shed but also some beautiful sunsets and a rainbow over the windmill and the more than full dam that is over flowing still.