It's already the middle of August???
Wow! What happened to this month? Not that I am unhappy about it mind you. The quicker time passes the sooner it will be fall and we will have comfortable temps again!
Well, I have to tell you, the VAOBA Alpaca Expo Registration has been open for 17 days now and it is filling up fast! It is exciting this year with on-line registration and a new venue - new people involved. It is going to be a great show.
We had a workshop last weekend in Orange where we learned the correct way to interpret the show division handbook and how to properly color check. What an eye opener! I am glad that we had it and will have corrected our ways for this show coming up...
The extensio is just about finished for the barn. Chuck got help last weekend from Dee and Rob and then on Friday from Dillan. The roof is up and just needs a bit of trimming and some roofing cement in a few spots. That will happen tomorrow. Then the sides go up and the door will bring contruction to an end. We basically have built a three sided shed but placed the open side against the barn. The walls are going to be a pine exterior paneling - we will probably get some more and put it up on the front of the barn as well to tie it all in. We have pallets for the floor and expect to put a vapor barrier down between the ground and the pallets so we don't end up with wet hay. The doors actually came off the premade building we purchased a couple of years ago to use as a run-in shed out back. We just took the doors off and made the opening considerably larger under the overhang. I knew we'd be able to use them someplace!
Chuck's sister is coming for a visit later today. She's probably on her way to the train station as I type... I will pick her up at 4pm in Fredericksburg. It will be nice to visit with her for a few days. But, that brings me to having to close this post and get to work on laundry and other housework... :-)
Until the next time!
Well, I have to tell you, the VAOBA Alpaca Expo Registration has been open for 17 days now and it is filling up fast! It is exciting this year with on-line registration and a new venue - new people involved. It is going to be a great show.
We had a workshop last weekend in Orange where we learned the correct way to interpret the show division handbook and how to properly color check. What an eye opener! I am glad that we had it and will have corrected our ways for this show coming up...
The extensio is just about finished for the barn. Chuck got help last weekend from Dee and Rob and then on Friday from Dillan. The roof is up and just needs a bit of trimming and some roofing cement in a few spots. That will happen tomorrow. Then the sides go up and the door will bring contruction to an end. We basically have built a three sided shed but placed the open side against the barn. The walls are going to be a pine exterior paneling - we will probably get some more and put it up on the front of the barn as well to tie it all in. We have pallets for the floor and expect to put a vapor barrier down between the ground and the pallets so we don't end up with wet hay. The doors actually came off the premade building we purchased a couple of years ago to use as a run-in shed out back. We just took the doors off and made the opening considerably larger under the overhang. I knew we'd be able to use them someplace!
Chuck's sister is coming for a visit later today. She's probably on her way to the train station as I type... I will pick her up at 4pm in Fredericksburg. It will be nice to visit with her for a few days. But, that brings me to having to close this post and get to work on laundry and other housework... :-)
Until the next time!
posted by A of NH at 7:22 AM
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