The sun is back! Yeah for the sun! What you see ‘sparkling’ in the foreground is the sun bouncing off the old corn stalks.

 Isn’t it beautiful!!!! 

While I sit in a warm office, staring at a computer screen, Terry is burying, by hand a transmission pipe.

So after work he took me up the canal bank to see how much he got done.

As you can see this ditch can be a problem.  The cows walk this ditch bank to come into the barn; they stomp down the edges, walk in the ditch itself and generally make a mess. 

Water can be its own problem, because if you turn down a head of water and you don’t get to the end fast enough it will start to form little channels and run over the sides.  THAT is something you don’t ever want to have happen.  The water gets into the field or the road or back into the canal somewhere it should Not Go!

We have wanted to lay transmission pipe for some time, but as most of you know, pipe is expensive and the hand work needs to be done before water starts and after the ground thaws.

It also has to be done before the tractor work; because once the tractor work starts little jobs like this are put to the side. (The -we’ll get by another year- thought process sets in.)

Although, there was a sharp, cold, northern wind, the ground is lending itself well to hand-digging.

In a couple of days tractor work will begin. Providing it doesn’t rain.

Linda