The barn

The Barn

The barn was a bonus when we bought the house. It was on the list of wants but we did not think we would actually get one in the price range we wanted to spend. The barn will need a lot of TLC to get it to where we want it. The floors are made of concrete which is amazing in its self. There are some nail holes in the roof that we will have to fill in, and there are rotten boards along the bottom of some of the walls some of the hay loft flooring. The barn doesn’t look like someone took much care of it.

I know with the love we will put into it; it will be amazing. I am so excited to have a nice place for our future animals to go. We have been cleaning out stalls one at a time and we will have quite the pile for compost when its all said and done, as there are lots and lots of horse manure that was left everywhere in the barn. Currently we have 3 stalls cleaned and most of the cobwebs and mud dobber nests cleaned out above them. The whole ceiling was covered in cobwebs. I guess we should have waited until after Halloween to clean them but I am glad they are starting to be cleaned out.

Now I am not the most observant person in the world. Ask my husband, he can get his haircut and most of the time I don’t notice until hours after he has been home or even a day or two later. And I didn’t realize right away if we had an attic in the house or how to get into it…. low and behold there is an attic and the entrance to the attic is pretty easy to spot. But anyways when we unloaded the Penske truck, I had Hunter and Payton put my holiday decorations in the hay loft to get them out of the way (I have a lot of decorations). After finding the attic and cleaning it out I decided that I would rather have the decorations in the attic in the house. Hunter was very grumpy (he said I should have thought it through before I had him put it all in the hay loft) about that but he will get over it.

There was actually quite a bit of hay left in the loft from the previous owners. The baby chickens were glad to have some of that hay in the coop and the hay will be very handy as we start to grow our farm. I am so excited that we have the barn and I am excited we will have the chance to slowly work on making it better.

I plan to work on the issue with water flowing through the barn when I go back in September or October. I just hope I don’t end up getting poison ivy again. I was covered from head to toe and everywhere in between in it after clearing the large area between the barn and the house. I was miserable! I covered myself very frequently in Benadryl gel to help with the itch.

On my way back to Texas from Kentucky I called and made an appointment to get a shot of steroids to help with it. I had already had it for over a week at that point. I am pretty sure I was on the brink of an itchy mental breakdown or cause of everyone around me to be miserable.