Rain, Rain, Go Away!

The local weather reporters have been talking about drought for months.  They must not be local as locals know that if it doesn't rain much during the usual months, we'll get it in the unusual months.  May is turning out to be a very rainy month.  And all this rain is slowing down progress on everything.  If it was our usual California Mist (it missed California and hit Oregon -- my dad's corny joke), it wouldn't be such a problem.  But the rain has been pouring!  At least it doesn't pour non-stop.  The sun peeks out long enough to make the weeds grow faster.

I bought two small bottle-fed goats a few weeks ago with my stimulus money, but I can't bring them home until I get a small pen with a shelter built.  The goats have to be bottle-fed a couple more weeks and aren't ready yet to start weeding the property, but I'm still anxious to get things done.  The t-posts are in the ground.  Amanda hopes to get the gate posts in tomorrow and start on a shelter using recycled pallets.

The goat pen is by my sewing studio, which is in a state of chaos right now.  My parents' old oak desk was moved from the house to my studio a couple weeks ago.  A 3'x5' desk has a different footprint than a 2'x4' table!  So to make everything fit again, nearly all the furniture has to be rearranged.

The only thing I'm not relocating is my art desk.  You can't see it, but it's buried under the pile in the corner. 

My studio deck is almost as bad.

Looks like I'm a hoarder right now, but once everything is neatly organized it won't look so bad.