March 21, 2020

Lots of folks home to help with the work, so we get carried away and pull down the old barn by the garden.  Built twenty years ago, of salvaged lumber, and to fill an immediate need for hay storage and pig pens, this barn was no sooner built than it was knocked two feet off-center by a landslip resulting from five inches of rain in twelve hours.  Grateful the hill didn't slide any further, we put in some new posts to stabilize the structure and made it do for the next two decades.   Many a pig has been raised in this barn; the four small pens in the upper level have housed fifteen years of bottle calves and seven years of spring lambs.  But we look forward to the new structure, in which we intend there to be head space enough that we can stand up straight, and storage room for 400 square bales.