It's a Farm Life for Me

So, I think this may be the first and only post without a picture of Sadie.

Today we went up to the farm early. Once we had held Sadie for a while, Alan and I went out to complete another side of the goat fence we're building. It's our plan to get goats in the spring that are pregnant so that Sadie can watch the kids grow up.

It was pretty slow going in the morning. The auger we were using wasn't drilling like it should have, so we had to use post hole diggers to get another 6 inches out of the hard ground. For what it's worth, we're spacing the poles 20 feet from each other and plan on putting metal poles in between them.

The work we did today was setting the wooden poles. We used the auger to go 30" into the ground, then we leveled the pole, poured concrete in the hole, and tamped dirt into it. Long and very physically demanding process. I'm writing this at 9:45 and I haven't been this sore in a long time. Even after P90X and Insanity. We worked from 9:00 until 5:30 today. Tough stuff.

Here are some pictures from today.

 Cleaning out the hole the auger drilled

 The posts in the background are what we set last weekend

36" is a deep hole

And finally, here's a video of us drilling the initial hole. I have to keep the auger in line, so I had to keep the tamper pushed up against the drill. 

All in all, a very tough day. It's very rewarding to look at a blank field in the morning and a line of fence poles in the evening.