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!

Weekend pics.

Curly headbutting me and looking for her bottle.

 

Sam was next for her affection.

 

Finally, Momma Kay.  Kay is Curly's "mom."  Her cow momma didn't want her and tried to kill her, so she's been adopted by her human caretakers.

 

This is one of our babies, Heidi.  This is at our house, just chillin'.

 

One of the weekend visitors, one of the barn kitties.

 

 Now, some pics of the trailer.

Sitting against the barn.

This is where we were when we got there this past weekend.

  

And this is what we were doing this past weekend.

I brought that aluminum to the recycle center.

Got a little cash and found out that they will also take all of the electrical wiring, and tons of other stuff.  So, I guess after every weekend, I'll be making trips with truckloads to the recycle yard too!

And

Things have worked out once again!

Someone else we know has offered to let us park and work on their acreage!

He even provided us map and directions to his place.

Anytime, we can go plop it!

YaaY!

We will be buying a vintage truck.

El Beasto has always wanted one.

We need a vehicle that is able to tow this bad boy.

We like older vehicles that you can work on and do maintenance yourself.

After we buy one, we shall sell our current vehicle.

I am hoping that where ever we eventually wind up that I will be able to use my bike and walk conveniently too.  That will be our next plan, finding land.

And on with things continuing in an upward manner!

We've Been Working on It, Promise!

And since this picture was taken, all those cabinets and more have been ripped out.

We've (by we, I really mean El Sammy Beasto) has been doing the work all stealth like right now.

However, we have a person whose father owns a bunch of property and told us that we could move it there to continue demolition and then rebuild.

WooHoo!!

He's even going to tow it for us.

Super lucky.

This is going to be a slow process for us.

We're going bit by bit as we will do things as we can pay for it out right.

The goal is no debt once we make the move.

We've been playing with plans, looking at different materials, and just plain old day dreaming of what can be.

I am very, very, very slowly reducing at the house.

I try to remove at least one item a day.

The garage is filling with bags that need to be donated.

Trying to sell my vintage clothes on etsy and ebay hasn't really gone quite as planned.

C'est la vie.

I have some friends who may enjoy them and give them a good home if I gift them to them.

We hope that once we are able to connect up and get the Purple Peanut moved that we will be able to make quicker progress on her.

Oh gypsy vardo, we look forward to our lives together!