Fall is in the Air

What a great time of the year! This is my favorite time of the year when things are changing, colors are brightening up, and its getting cooler! I am not a fan of temperatures above 85 and my comfort zone is 65 deg.

I have posted an economic article here to discuss some of the current events. I was visited by a friend from Colorado. I know him only through youtube, my blog, and a short couple visits on the phone, but he is certainly an interesting fellow to visit with. I relate well with him in the areas of Biology (he's an Aquatic Entomologist), music (plays the fiddle and guitar), and in farming (though he doesn't have a farm, he would have in a different life...so he says).

After surveying the place and going to look at the Bees, we began to play music. We must have played music for over 2 hours strait. Both of us had our recording instruments out. He had a pretty neat Zoom H2 that would pick up sound in a 360 degree direction and you could isolate each quarter into its own unique channel. It recorded very well for the wind that was blowing.

Well anyway I have a few videos of us playing below:

Cumberland Gap:


Whiskey Before Breakfast:



HK Silvie on a Tune (I dont remember the Name of):



As a result of all the fun I have had I have not really made a lot of progress on the barn. But i have made a little. Below is a picture of where it is today.




I am in the process of building some new Rabbit pens. We have a lot of overflow on the rabbit side of things. I want the new pens to be transferable to a "Rabbitry" so I am building them like I would need them in the Rabbitry and the building a stand under and making a roof over. In other words I am converting it to a Hutch style pen rather than a Rabbitry style...but I can use it in a Rabbitry when I am able to build the building. This is a new method for me. I have never built a rabbit pen with the little clips so it was kind of awkward at first but it turned out good.






This is certainly a better method of building a pen. The rabbits in the old style would eat the wood that the wire was nailed to. With this type of pen they cannot. Also it conserves material in the way of not needing to build sections to house each rabbit. To convert this to a hutch all I need to do is build a stand with a roof and slide it in. Then when I build my rabbitry, I just slide the cage out and hang it from the ceiling of the rabbitry.

Well Hope you enjoyed. Take care