Their names are Handsome and Gretal. She has not started laying yet and the plan is that she will have hatch a brood of poults. Dwight and I met them on Sunday and now I am working on their new home.....hope to have it ready by weeks end between all the other stuff I have going on.
Last week Dwight managed to get water at the yurt....it really is quite amazing.
You see we have this crystal clear pool of water about 400 feet from the cabin that is almost on top of a hill higher than the yurt. We discovered it years ago. It is about 20' long and 15' across and probably about 6' deep, always full and always clear. At the bottom of the hill it is always wet so we know there is a spring in it. Upon close inspection you can see that at one time long ago it was dynamited...looking for minerals.
Anyway we were up at the yurt doing some work and Dwight decided to round up the hose and see if we could get gravity fed water there. We have a 300 gallon reservoir there that is a pain in the ass to fill. Dwight would get water from the house in another container in the back of the truck and then with a gas pump he would pump it in the reservoir at the yurt. So you had to be conscious of your water consumption.
Siphoning the water from the pond worked and now we just leave the house running. For the drinking water there is a Berkey water filter system that works very well.
I dont think this water source will dry up like the one at the cabin does. This is great because Dwight and I are going to be living in the yurt for the month of July then moving to the cabin for the month of August.
Last week Dwight managed to get water at the yurt....it really is quite amazing.
You see we have this crystal clear pool of water about 400 feet from the cabin that is almost on top of a hill higher than the yurt. We discovered it years ago. It is about 20' long and 15' across and probably about 6' deep, always full and always clear. At the bottom of the hill it is always wet so we know there is a spring in it. Upon close inspection you can see that at one time long ago it was dynamited...looking for minerals.
Anyway we were up at the yurt doing some work and Dwight decided to round up the hose and see if we could get gravity fed water there. We have a 300 gallon reservoir there that is a pain in the ass to fill. Dwight would get water from the house in another container in the back of the truck and then with a gas pump he would pump it in the reservoir at the yurt. So you had to be conscious of your water consumption.
Siphoning the water from the pond worked and now we just leave the house running. For the drinking water there is a Berkey water filter system that works very well.
I dont think this water source will dry up like the one at the cabin does. This is great because Dwight and I are going to be living in the yurt for the month of July then moving to the cabin for the month of August.
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