Some photos of the work inside the "barn"

This is not an up-to-date look at the barn as Garry has been unable to photograph the inside work since I left because he is taking photos with his tablet (the camera is with me on my travels so I could take photos) but a summary of some of the work completed since the work team was here (there will be some duplication if you  read my regular blog.) Garry said they met with some of the social service agencies from the surrounding cities on Monday and talked about the trade school and handed out some of the flyers I showed you in a previous post.


They are still working through the channels to get the electric hooked up to the barn, so Garry needs a flash camera to get a good photo inside the classroom/milkhouse/bathroom addition. This week he mentioned that they had been bending pipe to make gates for the barn.

digging the septic tank

Laying out the footprint for the rooms

Some unnecessary openings were bricked up

The rain leaked in and sprouted some wheat! 

walls going up

The windows were framed with wood so plastic can be stapled on in the winter

doorways to the equipment room and bathrooms

Garry's brother John worked on the bathrooms when he came

The classroom will have the windows

The tile is now finished inside the bathroom walls and showers, and more white paint has gone up on the inside walls, the toilets are in, too. Garry said Maria will be out this week and she is looking for her painting clothes to finish up the walls.  He said he bought the inside doors to hang.
The guys are building a well house for the well that was drilled a week ago. The final project to get the barn ready will be installing the milking equipment this summer, but Garry hopes to be able to move some of the bred heifers and the ones he will be buying into the facility soon. They will start calving in the fall when we have students.

well drillers