A Snowy Tour of the Barn House Homestead

We had our first Arkansas snow of the year -- we will get two, max, usually -- and I thought It was a good time to give you a tour of the farm as it stands right now.

This is the home I love so much. Now that it has snowed, I wish the roof could be white all the time.

We have a large outbuilding that is going to be used for a combination of a shop and an office/guest quarters. This is a project we have not done much with so far. 

You know you are insane when you are taking pictures of your fences.  I am so proud of all that fencing work!

Here is the animal paddock, With the chicken tractor in the back and the two goat houses in the front. We will have a proper goat barn later, but goats are not that fussy.

This is our house from the back. Not yet painted back there. The elevated area is the pool that has been turned into a play deck. Underneat that deck, something crazy is going to happen,. Not sure what yet.

Here are the Haman beehives. I scraped out snow from the entrances after I took the photo, but they are on screened bottom boards, so plenty of air gets to the bees. The girls maintain the hive at a contstant 90 degrees inside.

Still life of fence and 1970s lawn chair.

This is the other outbuilding and we are not using it yet. Heck, I still haven't cleaned it out. I think it will become either my honey house or a special barn for birthing doelings. It is close to the house and I can monitor it easily.

Side view of the house. Little deck off the living room and kitchen lets out into a small dog pen. We will probably use that dog pen to help our does get acquainted with our livestock guardian dog.