Progress Pics!

 Curly is now big enough to go frolic freely in the pasture with the other cows!

She was dancing and rolling in the hay stacks.

 This is the decking.  One side is painted with this thick decking paint that is made with sand that makes a hard water proof coating on it.  More will be done on this side as we go.

 Beginning floor framing.  The large square in the middle will have the decking cut out. It will eventually be a drop down box in the floor.  So the floor will have a door and we'll have extra storage in the floor.

All of this is bolted down to the trailer too.

This area is in the front.  We're planning on a murphy bed in this spot eventually.  It will be the bed/living/dining area.  We visited a murphy bed store for ideas.  I saw some pretty nifty things that we may incorporate when we build it.

Though they do not come with us during our day trips, it seemed our pups were pooped this weekend too.

Let sleeping dogs lie, hehe.

Purple Peanut getting the love

Here she is as we began to put on the rust converter/primer.

You can kind of see what it does on the front end.

Our new axels that carry more tons!

New bigger tires and leaf springs.

Our friends are taking the old axels, tires, springs, etc.

He may make some sort of trailer for use around the farm.

We changed out all of the parts and connected up the brakes and made sure they worked.

This is all being done with the help of our friend.

He is a godsend with his knowledge, versatile supply of tools, and his willingness to "play" with us while creating the Peanut.

Since these photos, we have also painted with a "rustoleum" type metal paint.

I will have to get new pics this weekend.

By the time we got done this past weekend, the sun was going down and my feet and hands were frozen puppies!

We went in and enjoyed a little music and refreshment in front of their fire.

We are still waiting for the new stands to come in.

Three of ours are busted.

We're happy though because we are getting closer and closer to the really fun part!

And as usual, Curly says "Hi!"

She's chowing like a champ now!

I love getting to play with her and feed her.

Killing It

We banged it out yesterday.

We left the top strip because we were scared the whole thing would collapse before we came back next weekend.

The frame is so shoddy and rotted out.

Ya know what's on the roof?

Just cloth, yep, that's right, not even canvas, just cloth.

Weird, but whatever.

We'll have it all down next weekend.

Plus, other exciting news, El Sammy Beasto got a 1979 GMC doolie truck.

It's a beast, but will be sure to be able to tow this sucker when we're finished.

We're trying to decide on some basics so that I can draw more plans and get better materials lists going.  We're thinking a murphy bed.  Just an idea but it would give us so much more space during the days!  I actually took out a Sharpie and drew outlines on the floor to give us ideas of space with what we do have planned so far.  It's nice to walk around and "see" what space and storage will somewhat look like, even if it is just in black marker lines.

But here's what we did this weekend (just Saturday).

This is what all of that aluminum siding looks like taken down and after I have folded and stompted it.

Off to the recycle center again tomorrow.

We're hoping to give away the 3 windows that actually have glass left in them to whoever needs them.

 

 Stripped.

 Close up.

There it is, skeleton, future Purple Peanut.

Afterwards, we hung out with our friends who own this awesome place.

El Sammy Beasto got taken on a tour, where there was an old, stone, falling down building that was a Pony Express Stop, a ravine where horse smugglers used to hide the horses, and a few other cool sites.  I'm going next time!

We sat, had a brew, and I got to feed Curly!

She's awesome and does the happy calf dance, much like a ferret who does the happy ferret dance!

Right now, she's about the size of our German Shepherd, and she's only 2 weeks old!

She did wind up slobbering all over the front of my shirt while we were snuggling.

What a love muffin!

Then, all four of us headed up the road to a going away party.

Another friend of ours also lives down that way.  We ran down to her basement, jumped in the shower and changed before the festivities.  I gorged on grilled stuff and a few Oktoberfest brews.  Lucky for me, El Sammy Beasto was DD.  Nice change for me, haha!