Two days in a row without rain, hooray! Everyday is different here on the farm and that keeps things interesting. While Scott fed the animals this morning, I did some prep work/planning for the electrician. We are in the process of adapting my grandparents’ old farmhouse into on-the-farm meat & food store. The wiring is about 30 years old so it was not powerful enough to run all our freezers. I measured and thought and thought some more about where all we would need outlets, switches etc. I am really looking forward to having a store right here in our hometown. We need to be more accessible to our neighbors and fellow west-central Indiana natives (plus the thousands of people who drive by every day on Highway 63)!
Then it was off to school to join our sons for the annual ACES (all children exercise simultaneously) walk. The red and gray coated wonder in the picture is Knic. With students, parents, teachers and friends there were probably 400 people out for a brisk 1 mile walk. We work long hours on the farm but the flexibility to join our kids for special events is priceless. After a quick lunch of roast beef sandwiches with Scott, I went to town. We are so fortunate to have a small town that provides all the services a person needs. I went to four different businesses (bank, hardware store, newspaper office and restaurant) and knew all the people working at each place. That makes for some good, friendly service. While I was gone, Scott put up more temporary fence and moved the mother ewes to fresh pasture. He then loaded two cattle and four hogs into our neighbors trailer for the two-mile trip to the butcher shop. The boys did their homework and I tried to catch up on emails and paperwork. Tomorrow will be totally different but still fun and interesting.
