Pete & Teri’s Next Big Adventure

The goat house now has a floor, all its walls, and half a roof! It has also been jacked up and set back down on (scavenged, naturally) concrete blocks to prevent the wood beams from rotting in the Oregon moisture. The top 1/2 of 3 walls will be left open for ventilation and light, and shuttered during any cold winter storms.

Investment so far: about $50 for roof beams, screws, tar paper (partial rolls from a local construction materials reclamation facility called Bring Recycling.), and a roof vent (also from Bring).

There’s a patch of old growth forest about 4 miles down the road from us, and though most land is green out here, the farms and tree plantations that predominate are nothing like this. It’s a cathedral with a babbling stream as the center aisle and fir trees standing nearly 300 feet tall down either side.

It’s pointless to even think of capturing the sheer amazingosity of this place with a camera, but here are a couple of photos:

…and here’s one Teri took, apparently of a sasquatch: