Tim is home! What a delight! Back to napping and dinners together. After some napping, perhaps some work on the lawn mower or truck, perhaps some tours of goat farms, perhaps some chicken butchering.
And with Tim came this little guy, formerly referred to as "The Pig" but now affectionately called Oliver. My dear brother Daniel made the big decision that perhaps his little guy would be better off in the sunshine on a farm for a while than in an apartment and Oliver is so grateful! So far the biggest problem with having a little pig is trying to take pictures since he likes to crawl in my lap and get too close to the camera. Also, Tilly is a little too excited about The Pig to be ready for a proper introduction, but we'll get there. The chickens are also exciting for a puppy but they don't compete for lap space in quite the same way. Oliver and the chickens, however, seem like a fine match. This Sunday is going to be the big "Back to Bristol Bay" chicken butchering extravaganza, which will make sharing space between 12 chickens and a pig a little more reasonable.
Oliver and the mini barn. (One quarter is a little nest box full of bedding which he seems quite happy about. Nice and warm and cozy. Also, a special port for a heat lamp. He has an almost finished run that will clip on to the outside in a secure sort of state, though sharing the chicken run and the big yard also seem pretty good.
Both today and Saturday, we have appointments to go look at some goats so I better get busy finishing up the barn! I've framed in two doors and a new wall for the barn, and the next step is to finish cutting the windows, whitewash the inside, and maybe change out some of the compacted manure for fresh sand - it looks like the previous critters made use of the sand floor idea too so that's good to see.
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