WINDY!!!!!

 It's been a busy couple of days!

Friday (Saturday???) Kyle got lots more

of the siding done, this time on the North side.

He is SOOOO almost finished!

(And happy about it, that's a LOT of up 

and down and up and down on a ladder...)

Looking good, eh?

And Rod has been UNDER the house,

doing the plumbing and getting it ready

for the pex inside the house...

That's lots of scooching around for a guy

with broken ribs and a not all the way

healed back.

But he's so happy to be back at work

and contributing to the build.

I'm proud of him.

(He's "mostly" listening to his body...)

Check out the temp on Saturday.

83 degrees!!!

And this morning we woke up to snowing

and a high of 37.

(Which happened about 6 am...)

Tonight it's going to be 11!

(Feels like ZERO)

And it's WINDY!!!!!

Sustained winds 38 - 40 mph with

gusts between 60 and 70 mph.

Kyle's house is fine.

Our house is fine.

Chicken house???????

Not so fine.

Of course, Kyle used his heavy equipment

and got the trailer standing up again,

but there's going to need to be some

major rebuilding for the coop.

(Looks like the roof is laying on the ground

next to the coop...)

But he wanted to get it standing up so the

girls would at least have a place to get up

under there to stay out of the wind tonight.

Hopefully they were all ok.

Oh the many joys of "spring" in the midwest.

Tomorrow is also going to be chilly and then

BAM.

Summer.

This is probably the last cold snap though,

so after a few days, we'll check the temp

in the dirt in the garden and maybe be able

to get the tomatoes in the ground.

But.... I'm not sure if our peas will survive.

They broke the surface yesterday probably.

They just don't love hot weather and it

looks like 80's for the next week.

And then probably drop back into the

high 60's and low 70s for awhile,

so as long as they make it through the

next few days, we might be ok.

HOPE SO!

We planted TEN 50-foot rows!

5 rows each.

In each row, there is a row of bush,

then two rows of pole (with a cattle panel 

in the middle of them) and another row of bush.

So yeah, tomorrow we need to put up

the cattle panels too.

Garden season is UPON US!