Back to Work and Baby Goats

This week we had two baby goats born from two different moms a day apart. I heard a goat crying as if something was tearing it apart, I grabbed my jacket and ran out to the stable, as I got there the baby was already half way out of the white mama and then the rest of the kid slipped out before my eyes. I have seen this before and every time it reminds me of watching the television show V when I was a child when a woman gave birth to a slime covered lizard like creature. In the stable the slimy creature suddenly popped to its feet looking to nurse... it amazes me every time. The following evening I had already put the newborn and its mom inside but I heard a baby cry that was outside the goat shed. I thought that maybe the baby had slipped through a crack in the barn siding so I grabbed a torch and investigated. Just outside the stable was a different goat and another baby, just a day later, I guess the phase of the moon was just right. A waxing crescent was the phase of the moon, about a week before a full moon.

Baby Goats

The kitchen cabinet carcasses are all down at the house now, except for one because I ran out of 3/4 plywood and one of the shelves needs to be doweled to the inside of the face frame before the back can be attached. These cabinets have taken me much longer than I expected, I guess because I didn't have a helper and doing all the figuring, cutting, joinery, sanding and finishing took a considerable amount of time. It is time to get back to work so I have several small projects lined up.

Carcasses in their new home.

Tomorrow I will be measuring for drawers for a kitchen that was built by the patron. I plan on building the drawers for our kitchen at the same time. I haven't advanced my skills to making kitchen drawers out of wood with dovetail joinery. Instead I use baltic birch plywood and use a tongue and groove joint that holds the pieces together. I have always made drawers for kitchens this way, it is fast and fairly simple. I don't mind the way the baltic birch edges look either.

Patron built kitchen.

Another project I will be measuring for tomorrow is a sink cabinet for a neighbor of the drawer patron. She is embarrassed for me to come over because her house is a wreck and she says she lives in squawler and is ashamed of it. Her current sink is funky and she is ready for an upgrade. She has another sink I can use somewhere out in her field.

Sink cabinet to replace.

Last night I was asked to repair a broken window that a different woman's cat had broken from the inside. I guess the window is double paned and it happened last April. She told herself that she would at least ask me before it had been a year since it had been broken.

After driving around measuring for projects I hope to permanently install our kitchen carcasses so that they will be ready for the counter top installation. We are doing a zinc top that will be glued to two layers of 3/4 plywood. As soon as I have my measurements for several different projects I will take the truck to town to get rid if trash and pick up materials.