Yesterday was a good day on the farm, not least because the sun came out for a while. Also the baby goats started to frolic, which is really a pretty amzingly beautifil thing to see.
First off I milked Sheba. She was a complete bitch about it. She kicked so much I had to tie up both her legs. She tried to sit down on the job so much I had her tie her collar to the top of the milk stand. In the end she only gave me one cup. Still, it tasted damn fine in the coffee, and I expect she will get a bit more relazex about it as we progess...
Spent a few hours in the nursery next, potting up more of the deglupta's and cocoyams, and propagating a a tray of sesbans, and then I got busy building a rain catching roof for the 20 000 gallon tank on the hill. Even with all this rain it has been getting grained faster than I can pump water up there, (electricity being scarce in periods of rainy weather) so the obvious solution is to use some of the recycled roofing and timber that we have scavenged to catch some water. There is actually a pretty big clearing next to the tank, so that a 15 x 15 foot roof fits in there where noone but green harvest helicopters will ever see it. I got the frame put up yesterday, and when I get some roofing screws today or tomorrow it won't take long I expect to put on the tin.
I thought a lot about building it with secondary functions in mind. It did seem like a bit of a waste to use all that material and not get a dwelling or an animal shelter out of it or anything. I suppose it is possible that is could be a shelter for goats, or even pigs at some stage, or a wwoofer could hang a hammock under the roof and sleep up there... It could also be a shed for batteries/inverter if we put a wind turbine up there one day.
Well I guess I better get ready to go milk that she-goat.