My honey is proof to me that nothing is impossible. He can swim the deepest ocean, climb the highest mountain and leap tall buildings in a single bound...well, just about. He CAN bring home anything that's not cemented permanently in place. Give him a challenge to haul home and he'll conquer it everytime. Like the time he loaded a dragline by pushing it from behind with a dozer onto the trailer while I looked on from 2 blocks away. Or pushing a 10 foot wide semi onto an 8 foot wide trailer while I sat in the cab and steered.
This week he brought home my new barn. My last new barn-
is now a storage shed with no room left for my critters or the milking parlor. So here are some pictures of my last "Adventure With Mike" and my new, new barn.
Coming down the driveway on it's way to our home.
Heading out on the highway.
For some reason I can't get the rest of the pictures to load. Oh well, you get the idea. This old granary was riding on a hay wagon and headed down a busy highway. I drove the escort vehicle. :)
There are three rooms in my new barn and one is a brand new, never used, chicken coop. I'm so excited. We'll put it on a new foundation next spring and I'm putting up new pastures for my goats and chickens around it. Put in a milking parlor, slap a coat of barn red paint on it and it's good to go.
Best of all, this building was just given to us!
3 comments:
I can feel and share your excitement over your new barn! Isn't it great to have a husband who can actually DO those types of things? Like move a barn (nee granary) from one spot to another?
I could tell you adventures Papa Pea and I have had, too, moving structures. One time we moved a building (not quite as big as your new barn but tall) eleven miles down country roads. He outfitted me with a very long pole so that when we got to wires crossing the road, I had to hop out and push the wires up with the pole so he could fit the building on the trailer under them. Lots of fun, huh? I always wonder how those Norwegian bachelor farmers did it without "the little woman" to help them!
You got a keeper in that man, not only did he move the barn but over snow covered roads. New metal one is nice too.
Mama Pea-It's nice to be needed, isn't it? As long as my heart is healthy. :)
Tombstone-I so appreciate my honey. He's my superman.
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