on the home straight?

We're still building, building building.....

well it is a big project

with lots and lots of concrete....

 (EJ watched 'Strawb' forming the wash room drain today)

and lots and lots of steel...

yes it's a resource-hungry build - I tell myself that we will ensure that this building and its infrastructure will be viable and utilisable for many many decades to come - so over the long term we will justify the expense and the environmental impact ...

EJ and Sass take it all in their stride (they don't get to see the size of the loan!) - right now EJ seems to think that all that steel is a giant gym set....  its impossible to keep her from swinging on the steel bits!
 

(spot the naughty monkey girlie!)

 
Believe it or not the end IS in sight....

FP seems to think that another 4-5 weeks and it will be operational. And in the next little bit all the things that will make this unmistakeably a DAIRY will start to be installed (we already have the 1000L off-peak hot water sitting in the vat room waiting to be hooked up and I think the milking machine components have all arrived as well)...

the last of the main 'floors' was poured last week for the mill room....

(mill room - sans walls right now)

the last main short wall was poured today.... we've just got yards and walkways to concrete now (we were counting up last night how many trucks-worth of concrete we've had brought to the site - so far we are at 10... It FEELS like a lot more)

at the end of this week the last of our beefy boys and girls will leave the place....

and we are getting ready for our new girls to arrive....

bring it on!


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