Kitchen update and " While we're at it......

 THe front and new window opening

 Inside view from the other side of the porch

 Zip board up

 Zip board up on side

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 Log Siding going back up

 WTH--Might as well put a new deck on while we we're working here.

 Back Porch with newly painted table and fresh flowers -view from inside the hallway

Start of new kitchen

And along the way we have stirred up an ant problem  and I just stuffed 2 holes in the corner of the house with wire to stop the mice from coming in and hopefully they haven't already let in some flying squirrels. Oh God I hope not.

Worked the dogs

This morning I set up the C course for the ducks and worked on my timing around the obstacles.  Dually was being  a little bit bad about his flanks so I had to correct that and Dare was being pokey because I had the hose in my hand.  Too bad for you buddy.

Tonight I worked Edgie.  First I worked all the sheep and goats in the 100 by 100  and he had a very hard time going Away to me around the livestock. He got it finally  but it was forced.  He does tend to want to dive in on that side  and then I sorted off the goats (with him) and worked on fetching, driving  outs and just go get them.  Almost everytime I sent him to get them , he went straight up the middle then cut across to be able to go bye around them.  He might have decided that it was a little easier to go around a bit more at the end but I need to keep practicing that. 

At least tonight, everybody is sleeping and not wandering around whining.

Dog yard cleaned up

Mary came over and worked all day today cleaning out the construction material from the dog yard and the extra rocks that were dug up and then she weed whacked it.  It looks good.  Then she rolled onto digging up the new garden area right in front of the back porch and transplanting some grasses and some hosta and some coneflower.  It looks a little weak right now but I have faith it will look good soon. 

I am going to put some stepping stones across the new garden area, but I need to go buy some.  Maybe tomorrow afternoon after lessons.  I don't have a pic of this area yet, but I will take a pic tomorrow and then update this post.

6 cows in a 16ft pen is less scary than a power saw!

Dare is so scared of sounds that this morning , the workers were sawing and hammering on the front porch and I was trying to get a bale of hay out to the cows, he hid from me.

I took Dare out and put the sheep away and then went out and put all the cows in the 16 by 16 take pen so I could open all the gates and drive straight thru.  

I took the car out thru the fields and dumped the bale of hay. Dare layed in the shade  and followed the car back so I could get the tractor. While I was starting the tractor they were sawing up at the house and Dare bolted back to the cow pasture. I drove the tractor back there and I could not see him anywhere so I called him and he popped up behind the cows in the pen.  You would think that  6 cows in a small pen would not be the least threatening place to be.  It took a couple of calls but he came out under the gate and stuck with me until I finished putting the hay in the feeder but then I could not get him to come back to the barn so I could catch him. 

I closed all the gates and let the cows out into the field and went back to let the sheep out.  They didn't want to come out so I needed Dare but he would not come to me.  I put Dually out there and made some noise and Dare thought he was missing out on something so he scooted under 2 gates and helped me and Dually put the cows in a pen, and then I caught him.  I had to put him in the car for safe keeping while they were working today.  I really need to buy that doggie GPS tracker for him before I really lose him.

Porch pics

There is a 6 ft space between the porch front and the dog kennel that will be all garden

Looking out toward the duck arena

Back door going into house hallway gives a lot more light

Doggie area-right side half door leads out to people door that has doggie door in it

Doggie door with cover on it--fits nice and is a well made door

Dare

I put Dare out in the pen so I could eat breakfast and when I went to check on him 5min later, he was gone so I got in the car and he was at the next farm. But he would not get in the car so I basically chased him in the car back to the house. He thought that was great fun.  I must fix the fence today so I can put him out there safely again.

I took all 3 dogs out to the arena to work cows.  Edgie was wearing himself out by running the fenceline so I tied him up.  I worked Dare first and he took every command and really worked very nicely. I was very pleased with him. Then I took Dually out and I don't know what got into him. He was horrible. He would not take a down or a flank. I ran out and got after him a number of times and it didn't get any better so I took him off the field and gave up for now.  I think we need to go into a smaller area and have a lesson on who's in charge here.