Milking Stand

 Stacy and I finished the milking stand yesterday, in preparation for our two new goats.  
The "table" part of the stand is a piece of furniture we've been carting around for as least as long as I have known Stacy, and Stacy has had it longer than that (so we are talking 25+ years here).  The table came from a barn in New Jersey, reportedly used to kill chickens (we've always just called it "the chicken killing table").  It has be re-purposed as a desk, a kitchen table, a banquet, and an outdoor plant stand.  We have cut down the legs once, added taller legs, and cut them back down again.  Finally, it has found it's new home, not as the "chicken killing table" but the "goat milking stand."   
The remainder of the stand is various other pieces of re-purposed materials.  The front slats are mostly from some bench parts stolen by kids and left in the yard of our last house (we tried to locate the owners, to no avail).  The feed box is from cedar planks left over from the fence we built at the new place.  It really is a "franken-stand", but to me, it looks beautiful.  We didn't even go to Home Depot once, as it was created from materials already on the farm.  
I think I finally know why Stacy dragged the table from New Jersey, and we dragged it from Iowa (after selling nearly all of our other stuff) to Seattle and then back to Utah.  It has finally found it's true purpose.
Now, we are waiting on a phone call from the owner, and then we'll go pick them up.  Waiting is so hard!