Foundation is set, Posts are in, Picnic on the Farm

Inspector Stella on the job!

Alberto, Brian, and Nelson working on the plan.

Construction starts  early.. that’s what I remember from my younger days on my dad's job sites. This was no exception. 7am we were at Home Depot in Orange to pick up the rented Auger(yes that is Auger). This is a large drill made to drill large holes in the dirt, where you pour concrete to “cement” the 4x4 posts on a building.

Over to the High School and of course the students were there already.. (on a Saturday at 7 am). Why wouldn’t they be? (sarcasm inserted here)

-12 holes dug,

-15 bags of concrete mixed

-12 4 x 4’s  put in the ground.

(it really took all day, but we’ll spare you the boring construction details. =)

The fun part though, was that we had goats and sheep inspecting our work along the way. Since we were in the pasture, we had “visitors” every so often to see how we were doing.

The sheep were looking for a way to help. 

In fact, one of the sheep delivered Twins last night and we were able to see the newborn lambs in the pen win their mother… really cool!

My wife Leah came by with our Daughter Stella Dorothy, and we had a nice picnic on the farm, and introduced Stella D. to a bunch of the animals. That was my favorite part of the project so far!  My wife is in love with Curly, the Scottish steer.

Curley. 

Frank Frappier- 1/8/11