Big Blue Building

What do we plan to do with the metal building? Well, we had bought it during our frenzied phrase of trying to get a CSA going last year, with vague but hopeful plans to use it for a milking parlor, a workshop, cold storage, library, farm store....

But when the CSA idea blew up last July, we had a huge building on site, and so, for the time being, we're planning to just use it for storage and workshop. Maybe someday it will morph into a more interesting role, but for now I will be glad to get tools out of the little greenhouse, the barn, the outdoors, under the trailers, in the back of the storage trailer, and in the truck. If a tool goes missing, it's generally a long hunt to find it, since there are six or more reasonable places for it to be hiding (not mentioning the unreasonable ones, where tools sometimes go due to young child curiosity).

Also, we are hoping to get some of the equipment under cover. Things like temporary fence posts, electric net, cow minerals, tiller. Hopefully it will help the farm look more together: I grow weary of sundry equipment scattered, without a home.

Today, Phil went to look at the drawings for the roof installation, and came to a stop. Somehow there are no details on installing roof flashing (or something like that). As an engineer, he can draw some up, to make the building watertight. But that means he's not actually installing anything.

He did scythe down the weeds around the greenhouse, and moved the now abandoned chicken pen up into the chick's netting. (We do have a sole leghorn wandering about, but she is not sleeping in the hut of death.) When Phil took the volt tester, it turned out the electric net was hardly producing a shock at all, so the marauder did not have a difficult time entering. We can't figure out why the shock was so low: the battery was fine, the weed load not heavy, the connections all apparently intact.