A week ago, Patch had her 4th litter with us. Here are some pics.
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Also, we got our meat birds in. Our freezer is pretty empty. We have some pork, just a little beef and some chicken wings. So getting the meat chicks in is a relief.
Spent Saturday planting: putting in tomatoes, peppers, and planting peas and green beans. (Corn went in last week.) We aren't done, but it is a great start.
Oremus pro invicem!
Youngest daughter was riding the neighbor's horse on Sunday - the neighbor riding hers. The horse dahughter was riding started freaking out and bucking (perhaps due to jealousy?). Daughter, deciding she wasn't getting bucked off, held on and stayed on the horse's back. The horse, deciding the only way to get rid of her was to rear up and go over backwards, did just that.
Daughter fell off as the horse continued to fall backwards on top of her. The horse fell on her, rolled over and took off for home. Fortunately daughter didn't hit her head and was lucky to only break 4 bones on the backbone, the transverse process. These are the little hook-like bones coming out of the side of the backbone near the tailbone - if I am describing it correctly.
She never lost consciousness and directed the neighbor to call me. They were riding close by. I got there, called 911 and they air-lifted her to Columbia, the nearest trauma center. I think they were afraid (as I was) that there may be internal bleeding - which there wasn't.
A month or so ago the drain in the upstairs bathroom sink became veeeeeeeeery slow. After trying the usual things, I figured that the clog must be in the horizontal galvanized steel pipe in the eves of the attic.
I usually do all my own work, but this was a little bit hard to access, so I decided to call a new plumber in town.
Well, his diagnosis was the same as mine, so he replaced the horizontal section. Unfortunately, both our diagnoses were wrong. So I paid the bill and still had a clogged drain. He gave me a number of "reasons" why he didn't want to do more and thought he had made it better.
For the 69th time or so, I learned that I shouldn't hire contractors!
So, last weekend I removed another section of pipe - the obvious if the horizontal wasn't the problem and sure enough, that pipe had a solid clog - partially decomposition of the pipe with some hair attached.
It was hard getting in and out of the eves with my tools all day and balancing on the joists going back and forth, be we got it fixed.
On the last trip out of the attic, my foot slipped off the joist and landed through the ceiling in our towel closet below! As seen with my footprint in the picture below.
It could have been worse. This can be patched up in the closet without the care and worries if it had happened through the ceiling of a room.
But all's well that ends well!
Oremus pro invicem!
