Monday

 Monday was April first and I thought the message I got from Garry Monday morning had to be an April Fool prank, but there were photos.

At first, I thought it was a problem with the new shed they were building, but it was the second heifer barn that was built five years ago. Monday was windy, and Garry was on the other side of the cow barn when he heard a big boom sound. Luckily the roof landed on the center cement wall and no heifers were hurt. They think the dry cow shed they took down last week may have been a windbreak for the barn, but who knows why it fell down this week. 

Since then, they have most worked on fixing the mess it made. By Tuesday morning, they had taken all the steel off the barn, and were working on fixing broken sections. Thursday morning the wind is supposed to be minimal, and they have a crane coming to pick the sections off the wall. Max has a plan on reinforcing the structure. They actually added some reinforcement to the first heifer barn, just in case, although it looks like that one had a slightly better design on the footings. 

Garry leaves on the train Thursday evening with the guys. He thought they might be about 75% done with the new dry cow shed by then, but they haven't done much on it since Monday's accident. They will hopefully get lots done before he has to leaving tomorrow evening.