Monday, Feb. 1, 2010
Most of the last week has been getting ready for, and then dealing with, a NC crisis: snow. Thursday and Friday we stocked up on food and fuel, fed up the animals, and tested our backup systems. The snow started Friday night and by Saturday morning the roads were impassable without 4WD. Katherine was unable to get over to milk Elderberry so Chris and I went out. Whatever magic Katherine uses to get EB to stand for milking, I don’t have. She danced, she kept her weight on the wrong side so I couldn’t reach in, she pooped and peed and I finally gave up and got out the milking machine. It did the trick in about 10 minutes. The rest of the day we worked in the barn cleaning up, starting the truck (which had evidently been left with the ignition on), and other chores. At about 7:00pm I was in the barn and when Christopher called me to come help – get Pete and Patti unstuck! Unknown to us, they had driven down from Michigan’s UP in the snow, 600 miles, only to get stuck in our driveway. Well, they were quickly extricated and inside getting warm. They stayed the night and left for Tim and Jaimie’s Sunday morning.
No church on Sunday because of the 4″ drifts and unplowed roads. We didn’t do much except milk again. I took milk over to Katherine, and roads weren’t too bad. Today was a lot warmer, and we were able to do outside chores. Worst problem was the stock well quit. Turned out to be the pressure switch, which is dicky, but seems to have recovered after being sanded. I picked up another one in town, in case I have to change it out.
Tracy and Travis came over today for some mentoring. Chris did most of the talking.
Well, that’s it for the big snow-storm. I’m glad we were prepared.