Back to normal

Back into our normal routine, anyway. Garry has conquered jet lag and I'm getting closer to a normal sleep. We have been working like crazy on the the house next door.












The Crawfords were supposed to arrive this week, but have been delayed so we will have a couple weeks before they arrive. The house will be ready by then, except for the gas hookup, which may not happen until next summer! We have purchased a couple of electric  heaters for them to use. Hopefully we'll have time to test the jacuzzi tub before they arrive!

Not thrilled that the brown floor paint we though we bought was brick red
in the green bedroom

I finished painting after I took this photo, still the wood floor to paint and the tile for the backsplash, so I'll be too busy to write again until next week.



Garry has been busy getting everything else finished, he has spent a couple days with the students pulling up irrigation tape so the corn field can be plowed. Most of the fields are plowed. The wheat was planted while we were in the states and is already up. The corn was harvested and was 13% moisture (very low, that's good) and did about 200 bushels to the acre. Non-irrigated corn in the area did 60. The vegetable farmer's irrigated corn did better than ours, but we had trouble getting water to the whole big field. They have already bought a pump to solve that for next year and are buying equipment so additional acres can be irrigated next year for corn and alfalfa, paid for by profits from selling corn.

They also got the roofs on the sheds that were built last month.




This morning Garry and the students built pens for small calves during class. There were six born in in the two weeks we were gone and they had been tied outside. Healthy when the weather is nice, but the colder weather has arrived and this morning it rained.