Contractors!!

Our contractors were moving right along getting the siding on the house when Donnie called in sick one day.  After a week of waiting and many unreturned phone calls, we finally figured out that they had moved on to a better paying job, leaving us in the lurch with no notice.  Why do contractors do that?

Thank goodness our tile contractors were not like that.  They finished installing about 1500 square feet of slate covering the whole basement floor with no problems and on time.  It looks beautiful!

Our search for wallpaper continues.  We thought we had found a goldmine in a wallpaper outlet on I-85 but were not able to find a single suitable roll in the thousands there.

Tom has been cleaning up some old stumps, moving them around with the tractor and setting them on fire. 

 The fire for these stumps burned for three days.

It's garden planting time!  We planted a bed of potatoes first.

It's also chicken hatching time.  We incubated some eggs for the required time, but nothing happened.  We think Rooster Cogburn is not doing his job.

So we bought some baby chicks and put them under a broody hen.  

She accepted them immediately and was very proud of herself.

For about a month we had a visitor on the farm.  Obama the Llama decided that he liked our pasture better than our neighbor's so he broke the fence and come over to stay.

We enjoyed seeing Obama out in the pasture but he did come and sleep near the barn every night and in the morning liked to nibble on our fruit trees. We finally managed to lure him into the horse pen.

His owner, Ebbie, came over with a lasso and halter.

Once he had a halter on, Obama was very tame.  Ebbie decided to sell him at auction.

We'll miss him.  Maybe we'll have a llama someday.