Finally, No Turning Back Now

Down by the highway, so folks know where we are, and who we are, and what we do, we put up a permanant Farm sign. 

And now we’re officially more official – this is gettin’ down right scary. 

The posts went up over the course of a couple of weeks, the pauses were for large dumpings of rain.

Rain makes concrete work just a bit more difficult than usual, rain makes lots of things difficult. The typical wait in between steps for curing became very elongated with each new drenching rain.

The posts aren’t just cemented in and braced, they also have guy wires.

Anchored in and tight.

The sign painted and mounted to the cross bars ready for hangin’.

Some things just get to have extra engineering to come out with the right look.

Typical compost flipper and manure mover, becomes occasional tool tote.

Ladders in place

Evaluations made

The lift begins…

The ooumph… 

The set in…

The ta-da!

And then, the “oh my gosh, it’s high”.

There seems to be a malfunction in the set up.  The cross boards aren’t falling into place like they should have.

The fix.

And now for screwing the top cross boards into place on the 4×6’s

We brought everything down to the worksite except the kitchen sink, oh, and an extra drill bit.  Dirt got back so Bet and I had to hurry back over the fence, we had wandered off while waiting for the tool replacement.

Setting the east-side lower cross board.  For some reason we’ve abandoned the one ladder, too big and cumbersome…so Bet is working from the bucket of the front-loader.  Not an approved method, but what can Safety Mom do?

Screwing it in.

Now for the west-side.

Screwing that in.  Almost all the screws are in.  And Bet decides she wants to do the last ones on her side. 

Uhh, this is making the front-loader operator and mother of the adventurous a tad nervous.  This is not what the bucket is for.  Do not try this at home!

Oh great, now she has to really lean into it.  Thanks for the heart attack.

Now the holes are drilled for hanging the “what’s for sale” signs.

And what is for sale?  Puppies!  A few left from the summer batch, when the old small temporary sign blew down,  The signage was neglected but not the puppies, we have a girl and two boys, house broke, and started on their come-sit-stay training, nice pups, very nice pups.   

That’s it!  It is up.  Now we need to paint up the produce and hours sign.  But first we plant garlic, late as usual but not as late as last year.  See… I do do the “next year” thing, I don’t just say it.