The Week...

has been warm like spring but it is rolling to an end, the week and the weather.  Weather man says the rains will hit Friday and after a couple of days, our temperatures will plummet.  That's the nice thing about weather in Arkansas, if you don't like it just wait a few days and it will change.

We have a live heifer on the ground...this is good since the terrible loss of twin heifers a while back.  We have reduced our herd due to the drought so much we will have only four more calves.  Hopefully we can keep our heifers this year and rebuild the herd.  Many areas have been affected by the drought and many cattle people have had to sell all their stock.  We were lucky to keep a few.

I'm trying to think...what I've done this week and it's gone already.

Let's see, did some junk shopping and found some treasures. Compiled my tax expenses now waiting for W-2's.  Filled out a farm report REQUIRED by the government that I couldn't complete until I had my totals for expenses...that took all day Wednesday 

Repaired some fence, counted the cows, created some dishes and made bread.  Cooked and cleaned and that's about it.  No special projects, no natural disasters, just a slow week...unless I forgot something. Oh, yes, I have a short story being published in an E-magazine in March. 

I delay a trip to town as long as possible.  Thursday we went.  Drugstore, Kroger's, WalMart, Hibbet's, Bath and Body, and a pawn shop.  I postpone these trips until I am out of everything because I really don't like shopping.  Cleaning, personal and laundry supplies replenished for a while.  At the one stop shopping spot, I got a hair cut.  Mom's old quilt cabinet I keep in the dining room is restocked fully.  The 'fridge is full.  Glory!  I won't have to go to town for a while.

Hibbet's didn't have what I needed, Body works had a sale, Kroger's and Walmart got equal amounts.  Pawn shop got a little and we headed home.  Hubby asked, Want to eat here?  I said our ice cream will melt.  Now, that's odd for mid January.

So no exciting tales, no nail-biting drama but the larders are full and so are our tummies.  For all that, we are deeply grateful.  Hope your week was good.

My Thursday On Friday...

Icy glass

and icy rocks

The snow remained 'til the end of the day.

We had to work on the spring pump

and replace the pressure tank and the relay switch...

Only $390, but we have water in the houses again.

Raised the value of  Kroger stock

 by restocking the cabinets.

Worked in the shop til dark.

I'm kinda worried about this guy...

I think he's watching me.

And that was my relaxing day off!!!

The Refrigerator Fiasco

Yep, sent the guys, that's right the guys, to get  a fridge.  Our old one was on its death bed and just honestly wanted the guys gone, out of my hair.  I was still trying to work outside...I got lots of phone calls.  Do you care about the color, do you want an ice maker, bottom freezer okay?  I said I  don't really care as long as it works and doesn't cost three thousand dollars.  So the guys took it seriously.  This is the beauty I got for under a thousand.

We had carefully measured the space in the cabinet, height and width.  We did not measure the door or take into consideration how heavy this baby was!!

Hauled in our truck, new fridge and proud guys arrived.  Took the box off and quickly discovered black gets very hot in the sun.  Out of the truck, the three of us, mostly hubby, manhandled that monster to the door.  Oops!  We had to take the outside door off the house, not the fridge.  Rolled it through the entire length of the den, which caused every thing to be moved out of place for this baby to get through (still out of place, haven't got around to putting it back yet).

It entered the dining room door with maybe a half inch to spare.  Perfect size for the hole...except for the decorative wood work that was hanging down.  Got a jig saw, cut that off, and FINALLY got the fridge in place.  Now, this probably took us close to an hour...we are not good at moving big things nor measuring correctly.

Hubby said, at least it is better than last time.  I laughed with the memory.  In the first house we purchased, the fridge would not fit.  After much thinking and  owning very few tools, hubby grabbed the chainsaw.  He cut the end off the kitchen cabinet and forced the fridge into the space by bracing against the wall, shoving it in with his feet. We decided if we sold, the fridge would have to stay...and it did.

Now I have this big fridge and when all the food got transferred.  We had to get groceries today.  A job I abhor!  I have bookoos of coupons and we headed out to Kroger's about thirty miles away.  We shopped hard.

It's still not full but there are many new choices in the fridge....now I have to go clean the kitchen.  I don't know how all that sawdust got in there.  Fiasco is not really the correct word, maybe it was just almost a failure.  In fact, it was kinda fun!