This friday is the big day!!!

The timbers arrived today!! and We are raising the timbers on the winery this friday!! -- It's really happening... I've been a little behind in posting the progress - goatio just nagged me this evening so get all those shots of her stellar project management up ...  

 

We are doing an open farm day on timber raising day if you want to come out and see the timbers go up and then the evening will be a potluck BBQ - brian will cook up some ribs or something fun and we'll have plenty of libation... we'll start that around 6pm... 

 

goatio doing the final steel and plumbing inspections... 

and the foundation finally got poured last wednsday !! 

 

she was pleased with the finish ...

 

she did notice this morning that someone forgot to put on the sill plate... so in my words we had a bit of a 'goat rodeo' today to get the right materials out to the site to get that put in to keep things on track for this friday... brian and I had to take a break from the office and rip some lumber... kind of nice to get out side but maybe not the best use of our time ... ahh well all in the name of gettin' er done... 

  

some other things other than construction going on around the farm ... 

 

thanks to some amazing friends we got 32 ton of hay in the loft of the new barn!!

 

I snuck in an evening ride with my friend Susan on a grain run to her farm!!

 

 

Brian and I went out to check on Wirtz and the fruit set looks great and so do the vines - the winemaker was happy - it was a good end to a wacky day!!!

 

and last but not least this is Larry our third baby cow of the season : )