Not Again! Farm

I was off work on Wednesday and I had vowed to spend the day getting some things done around the farm.  I hadn’t quite made it outside yet when one of my neighbors pulled up to tell me that one of the horses was out.  Gracie had slipped under the electric fence and was munching grass in the yard. I put her back and was feeding the rest of the farm when another neighbor pulled up.

He got out of the truck and came over to ask me if I needed hay moved into the pasture for the horses.  Wow!  I had been thinking that I was going to have to move the electric fence as there was no way I could move the 1000 lb round bale to the horses.   We walked around the pasture a bit and I showed him where to put a bale for the goats too.

He came back about an hour later with the tractor and dropped both bales for me.  He is my angel of the week.  The number of people down here who have stepped up to help is amazing.  He also baled my hay for me this summer without charging me a dime for it.  It’s nice to live somewhere where people still look out for one another.

My pipes are frozen again.  Sigh.  It’s not a big deal, they will thaw out again, just one of the minor inconveniences of living in an old house.  Not all the pipes thankfully, just the kitchen sink and maybe the bathtub.  I haven’t checked it yet.

For those of you who think that big old farmhouses are wonderful.  Let me tell you they are… but they also come with plenty of problems and inconveniences like frozen pipes and a lack of insulation.  The walls are dang cold and as I sit here in the corner, I can feel the coolness radiating off of them.

Well, it’s time to start another day.