A few days' news!

St. Patrick's Day: I put up a two-strand electric fence today (finally got to it!). Porter[house] decided to walk thru it, even after it was on. Hopefully he'll get a big enough 'zap' one of these days to 'get the picture'! If not, I will either get a solar system or his own happy little pen all by himself. Time will tell which I get done!

Pat's mom had surgery on her back today. They thought she'd fused two disc's together, but when they got in there they realized it was more or less a smooshed nerve. So they got her fixed up and she feels better already--a blessing! She already has back issues and this sure 'nuf wasn't helping matters any!

Pat got the floor off the trailer today, here is a "before we do any work to it" picture of when we had just brought it home.
(Yes, that is the neighbors' house across the street!)

Dolly is shedding and is looking goofy, I'm sure she'll look worse before its all said and done. Actually, she started shedding last week, so its a great "warmer weather is coming" announcement! Moo-hooo!

Oh and K called, they have bought a trailer house that they can move in on the lot they bought here in town. There is still some work to do on the lot, but they found a NICE (newer) trailer at a great price. It was well worth the frustrations and 'weeding out' of all the crappy ones they had leads on and looked at. As she hung up she said: "Bye Neighbor!" and just giggled. It dawned on me, yes, we will be very soon!
They now have three weeks to get everything situated and their new home comes. Awesome! I have gardening and canning 'competition' now--sweeeet! B has already made sure when Dolly comes fresh that he gets his milk supply too! ;)

3/18 Thursday
It was a beautiful sunny day! Got up to 55+! I heard FROGS when I did chores tonight. Not many, but enough! I am sure in the next week or two I'll be hearing lots more. Another spring sign! :-)

3/19 Friday
Started out at 40 degrees this morning. By 3 pm it was 32 and raining. Then little round snow balls that stung! Then it started snowing (ugh!). We are in a winter weather advisory until 6 am Saturday, it is supposed to keep snowing until then.
Here is the floorless trailer this evening in the snow:


Patrick and I went to Beatrice and did some shopping and price checking on wood for the floor of the flatbed trailer. Kyle had to work and Jared had an FFA thing to go to.

Oh and Porter hasn't gotten out of the electric fence since I put a new (better) ground post in. The fence has some "bite" to it now! ;)