Two Silos Farm

This last Monday, our chicks arrived. We had set up a plastic 150 gallon water tank in the chicken coop for them over the weekend. There are 15 meat birds, 10 pullets for eggs and one “free rare” chick in the box

They were real happy to get put in the bigger tank.

We’ll leave them in this spot for a few weeks, and then they’ll get moved into the nursery section of the chicken coop. That spot has a trap door and a small yard, but it will be even longer before we let them go outside.

My hubby was off work all this week; they were in between phases of the project. I planned on taking half day Thursday and Friday off, and we got things all set up to lay carpet on Friday. His parents were planning on coming over that weekend, so we were sort of rushed trying to get things done.

We had already picked out the carpet several weeks ago, so hubby only needed to make sure they still had it in stock, and reserve the stretcher. He went to Menards Thursday morning, so when I got home around 1:30 Thursday afternoon, we started laying the floor. Hubby did the hallway by himself before I came home, but we needed to do some figuring on layout for the living room so asked him to wait for me before starting in there.

Here is the hallway, ready for a “final” surface.

And here is the living room with only a few pieces to cut and set around the bay area.

Once we got the flooring down, we headed into town with the stock trailer and picked up the carpet. We had the stretcher reserved for Friday morning, and hoped to have things ready to go bright and early the next day. While we were there we found a remnant that would work for the hallway. Eventually we want the same carpet in the hall, eating area of the kitchen and into the den, but it’s gonna be a while before we are ready to do that, and this will do just fine for now.

When we got back, hubby had the fun job of installing the tackless strips. He sure hates working with that stuff!

He also put a placer board down where the stair tread/railing will go. We were pretty tired and decided that was enough for the day.

We got up early Friday and fitted the pad,

And laid out the carpet, and then headed in to pick up the rental tools. We have our own kicker, so only rented the big stretcher. It has been several years since we’ve laid carpet, so we had to refer to our “how to” book quite a bit. Good reference material sure does come in handy. We’ve got a small library of books, guessing how to do something isn’t much to our liking. It’s easier to do it right the first time than do it twice, but we still mess up once in a while.

Here’s hubby getting the stretcher set up.

And the finished job.

We got done early enough that we only had to pay for 4 hours rental on the stretcher. Then we took off in the truck up to Redfield to pick up my new couch. We looked all over the place, and settled on one my hubby found up in the small town he was working in. Our room is not real big, and we wanted something that would keep with our “old country home” look.

It’s not the most comfortable couch, but it’s good enough to please my hubby, and we both like the way it looks in the room.

At least now when the in-laws showed up the next afternoon, they had some place to sit.

Saturday was my Birthday, and we went to town and picked up my new TV. We don’t watch TV much, but when we do it’s usually movies, and I wanted a wide screen for that. It’s not a thin TV, but I’m happy with it. Besides, I saved enough on my cheap dining room set (found at Shopko when we were looking for a book shelf) to afford the TV. Since we’ve given away our last two nice oak dining room sets, figured this time we’d buy a cheap set. Will probably have this one for years LOL!!