Clearing out some space

Far and away the most dramatic thing to happen around here lately was us getting some help from our neighbor Artemio to clear some land.  We'll start with an early "before-ish" kind of picture:

The first one is looking past the pig hut into the brush, the second is the mini-excavator that did the bulk of the work.

Now here is a picture of the after for the 1-2 acres we got cleared (with some quick growing pigs in there for good measure):

It's pretty exciting to have done this and is a big step towards doing more of what we want to do on the property.  So much of our effort has been going into fighting the brush, it will be nice to focus on more fun things (like planting).  Thanks to Jeff's Dad who came over soon afterwards to sow rye grass seed, which will hopefully come up and keep the dirt from washing away.

In other farm news we have a goat who we feel sure will deliver kids any day now (though as is usually the case, we've been thinking this for a couple of weeks now).