Roof Materials DELIVERED: Our Roundhouse Just Crossed a Massive Threshold

Good morning friends, it's super early. I am headed to the transport place to go to New Mexico to get Bargeois for the roundhouse. Wish me luck. All right, we made it. Bargeois truck. In here you can see the big loader just got here. We're gonna see how this goes. It became clear pretty quickly that I was just gonna get in the way, so I focused on filming the process while the equipment operator and property owner started picking up the Bargeois. It took a little while to get going, but they finally found the best way to pick up and set the Bargeois on the truck. Getting them all perfectly lined up and evenly spaced was important for weight distribution, so there was just a lot of adjustments, especially on those lower layers. It's hard to describe the scale of these things. They're 56 feet long each, seven and a quarter inch deep, and 32 inches tall. If you're worried about seeing them bend and flex when picking them up, don't worry. Their strength lies in them being vertical, not horizontal. They'll even back out when we're ready to lift them into place. Okay, so we have 10 loaded, only two left. That's 12 total. It's going really smooth. These guys really know what they're doing. It'll be interesting when we get back to the homestead. I have to do a lot with what they're doing, so I'm paying close attention. So yeah, anyway, two more Bargeois, and then we're headed back home. Eventually, they started doing two Bargeois at a time. We estimate that each one weighed about 900 pounds, so as you can imagine, the machines needed to move these are bigger than a normal homestead tractor. The drive back was a little stressful. Even with all our strapping and precautions, we still had to stop a few times and readjust things, and all I could think about was how in the world are we going to get these things off when we get home? Okay, well, that first drop was insane, and it looked like they were going to drop it. That was scary. We didn't quite center up when we put the chains on, so now we know where the center is, so hopefully this next drop will go a lot more smooth, hopefully. The good news is that taking them off went way faster than putting them on, and other than that first slight miscalculation centering the chains, the rest of the Bargeois transfer went off without a hitch. Huge shout out to everyone involved with a successful Bargeois transport. Took a lot of coordination. Everybody did such a great job. Now, I know that you guys have some questions about the Bargeois. Here they are. Obviously, they have a lot of surface rust. Like we said, they are from a really, really old gym in New Mexico. I have no idea how old they are, but they're beefy. They're going to be fine. We are not worried about the surface rust. We are not going to grind them all down or sandblast them or repaint them or do any of that. It is all surface level. These are going to be plenty strong, and eventually they're going to sit on top of the bond beam and be fully enclosed inside the ceiling, so we're not even going to see them. These ended up costing us about five times less what new ones would have cost, which is huge for us, and it means that we're getting to recycle and reuse something that would have just been sitting in the middle of the desert. Now, the only downside is we were planning on like a 20-inch tall truss. These are 32 inches, which just means that when we set these, you know, the bottom is going to sit on top of the bond beam. That means we have to fill this entire space with something, with its earth bags or its lava crete or whatever it ends up being. It's a significant amount of wall that I don't really want to think about having to build more of, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there. You're wondering how the math works out and why we bought 12 of these. Well, six of them are going to get cut in half to 28 feet, and that length is going to get us from the inner circle to the bedroom circle most of the way around the house, and then the remainder of those are going to get cut to 40 feet, and that's going to be the span that runs over the big living room area. We will be doing some finishing work for the bits that will hang out over the edges of the walls, both to the outside and the inside, and we're going to do all that sort of wrapping and cleaning up. Here on the ground before we actually set them up into place. Now, as much as we'd like to move full steam ahead on these, we need to pause and focus on the lava crete utility lodge. That workshop's coming up soon. We have to do all of the trenching and utilities and foundation work for that project, so we're going to get back to this soon, but just know they're here, they're ready and waiting for the next steps. What it was, they are so cool. I picked out that one. That was, I really liked that one. What is it? She didn't know what it was called. A Mexican honeysuckle. They get massive. Thank you. What is this, Jack? It's like normal pasta, but it has cream cheese. The orange sauce. Thank you. Good morning or afternoon. Today is March 8th, which is Johnson and I's 23rd anniversary, and we were planning on going away for a little bit this evening, but Bailey is in labor. So far, there's just been a lot of pawing at the ground. You can probably hear her doing that right now. Of course, she's stumped, but pawing at the ground, standing off alone, being very still and quiet, and we're able to see that she is contracting every now and then. So we're going to get the stall swept out and ready for her. Kitting season begins. Every year, we learn something new with kitting season. While this isn't anything new for Bailey, we do have a couple other first timers that will be kitting later this month. This is actually Bailey's third season, and she's always such a good, attentive mother to her kids. It's nice to have goats that you know will be good mothers and raise healthy babies. Our goal on this farm is to have goats that are easy to raise and excellent milk producers. This is our main source of milk for our family, and we want to be able to sell dolings that we know will be easy goats to maintain, hardy, and easy to raise as a family dairy goat. These goats are Adelaide's, and she has done such a great job training them and caring for them over the last six years. If you're in the market for excellent dolings or weathered bucklings, send us an email as we'll be looking for good homes for all of these kids this season. All right, so Johnson and I actually left at four o'clock because we have reservations to, you know, celebrate our anniversary. But because I have the Reolink camera, I can watch Bailey's like pushing right now. So I can watch the whole thing. Oh, there she goes. Yeah, so this is really cool. All thanks to that Reolink camera, I can watch my goat give birth while I'm on the road to Tucson. Pretty cool. Does it look okay positionally? I can't tell yet. I see feet, like some parts. I don't see anything yet. It's so close. Got it. I don't think I see a foot. You got it, girl. Good dog. Now I just want to clean up Amy's nose. So close, got it. Yeah, there we go. That's a big baby. What? That one's backwards. That one also has teeth. Maybe they were born with teeth, I don't know. Is it just normal? I don't know. The umbilical cord is still attached. I don't know what to do with that. Can you, I think you can potentially cut it. I can't cut it too short. Can you touch mama? They're both still attached. While Adelaide has the goat birth handled, we have made it to what is for sure the nicest place we have ever stayed. The Joshua Tree House in Tucson. Oh my goodness, this place is incredible. You can really tell the amount of love put into this place. We stayed in a Saguaro seat and wow, nothing short of amazing. This place is just stunning. The Joshua Tree House in Tucson is situated on 38 acres just outside of Saguaro National Park. There you'll find a canyon pool, a hot spring style hot tub, cactus garden, walking trails, beautiful views of the Saguaro National Forest, and so much more. This inn named the Posada has been a labor of love and you can tell that Rich and Sarah have put their heart and soul into every inch of this place. Thank you so much for an incredible night. We will for sure be coming back. Just got back from Tucson and I'm in the barn already and oh my goodness, take a look at these little kids. This is the little Doming. Hi. These little kids are now 10 days old and growing so fast. We have already started looking for homes for them so if you're in the market for a dairy goat, specifically a very nice family milk goat, shoot us an email because we really want to find really good homes for them this year. While they're here, we're just gonna be loving on them because baby goats are just the best.