Finally finished pouring this slab, after a long summer! I am not sure what took so long, but I guess it is the continual interruptions, as farm life often goes. The shower house walls will be framed, come late spring or early summer. It was abit tedious placing and holding, the radiant floor tubing. The radiant tubing is to be connected to a solar batch water heater, which can be used for heating the shower and floor water, in the warmer months. No plan yet on what to do in winter months, but consider this a start! Like most lives in the country, things change and what you start out with is often not what you end up with, in the end. The next thing on the list, to get done while the weather is cold (it is currently 27 degrees at 5AM), is to work inside on the addition of the new kitchen sink's water supply line and finishing the wiring project.
All of the goats are now bred, as well as the two Scottish Highland heifers, so the babies will begin to arrive, early March! There are 3 bred angora does, so should bring at least 3 new kids and maybe as many as 6, if we get lucky! They say the nutrition makes a difference, as well as early breeding, in the number of twins born. They all eat a total of one ton of alfalfa per month, so the nutrition is the best they can get. The cows are totally fed on alfalfa, year round, so their beef should be of excellent quality.
