Finally finished all those poplar logs, and now back to getting some cedar logs out I'll use for the walls of our log home and shop. So far, the cedar I've been getting has been close by. This is a good time of year to be cutting while the sap is running up and making peeling pretty slick

This morning I grabbed a few using the truck and a couple of tow chains to pull them out of the woods with. Man, it was a bitc!, even with the truck

our new arrivals. Yep..... the wife wants to play farmerette, and it seems like she's gone into a second childhood

she don't know it yet but...... there's a barn to clean and it don't go well with manicured nails ;-)

Got the small barn just about finished. I'll tell ya..... I can't explain the feeling one gets having built something like this off the trees from your property. I mean, its not that its some magnificent feat or thing of beauty but just the fact that 6 months ago, there were nothing but trees standing here. I cut the logs, sawed them into lumber, stuck them to dry and built this little barn. Milled the bords with ship lap edges for keeping out draft and cover any further shrinkage, and even milled the window stools and 3/4 round moldings that hold the windows in. The 2 windows on the right house the 2 goats, and the window on the left for the chicks. The exterior is completely poplar, and the floors are some of that red pine I cut in Jan and feb. Its basically a pole barn, as the corner post are 6x6 cedars and then used horizontal purlins so I'd have nailing for the boards. The walls are 9', and I framed the ceiling out at 7'. Reducing the height would keep the animal heat lower, and give me more loft space.

added a little rain stoop over the hay loft doors and the loft can hold an easy 50 bales.