Hi everyone... still so much to do.  When all the guys (and girls) go home, sometimes they don't realize that we keep working.  IT is when they are not needing out attention and input that Jen and I can get what we need to get done.  Ordering parts, doing computer maintenance, writing blogs, etc.  I'll tell you if any of you want to start your own business, be prepared to work your tail off.  But still, having said all that, I still wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

Well, we have the brush hog welded back together.... mostly anyway.  Chris, our operations manager is also our welder.  I didn't get a picture of it because I was butchering chickens and training a new man on the line.  Well, he will be welding some new parts on the tractor mounted post hole digger that I broke (oops).  I just had to make that hole just a tad deeper in the rocky area... didn't I??

We just added a third killing cone station and I wanted to try it out for myself.  It's a big improvement in speed.  We butchered the only surviving field chickens (excepting a few odds and ends).  We did 340 birds in around 5 hours.  That's almost 70 per hour... pretty good.

The temporary pig fence is holding them in.  We made a dry run out to Russell Creek to make sure produce pickups would go well.  The roads we a mess, but passable and crops look good.  We are excited about building boxes on Saturday again!  YAY!.  We love what we do and we do so want to delight you.  We hope all you Wednesday customers aren't too upset with us.  This was all well beyond even our hope to control.  We'll make you smile next week... promise.

Oh!  We found an awesome double wide commercial building really inexpensive.  We are so excited as this will become our commercial kitchen/bakery/canning facility we have wanted to build.  I am always so amazed when God just decides its time to do something.  It doesn’t seem possible and then He finds a way.  We’ll take plenty of pictures when it arrives next week.  Thanks to the recent weather, we know exactly where to put it so it doesn’t get damaged I n the years to come…. Hmm… isn’t that convenient information to have?  Oh well, just coincidence I’m sure.   We’re putting it someplace that wasn’t flooded….

Well... here are the pictures I promised.  I'll write more tomorrow and try to post some other pictures of our people and operations… it’s just that the flood sort of dominated things for awhile.  Anyway… talk to you soon.

In His hands,

Tim

This is the driveway all washed out.  I finally found the culvert pipe, so it's not in 5 inches of water anymore.

You can see how much earth and gravel was wahed away.  Most of the job is moving gravel from one place to to another.

This is gravel that washed up in the Avalon pasture... I guess I will just leave it and move chicken pens around it... I dunno when I will have time to mess with it.

At least we get to keep this nifty pipe that is now on our property.  I am sure we'll find a use for it somewhere.

Free range pisgs (before we spoiled thir fun).  They sure seem to like the shade of the tree and munching they get to do on the tree.

Washed out fence... it was just twisted barbed wire, so do over!

Ok... so it ain't so straight... we were in a hurry!

This really is more of a dry creek bed than a pasture.  See howe high the water table is?

Not too bad for a city slicker with a tractor, huh?

It even looks good from the other side! (I know... modest, aren't I?)

Can you tell I really like the water fall??

Bless you all and see you soon.