Diggers

This Fall, the thought of winter scared me. For most of the summer, I used a LONG hose to supply my critters with water. Occasionally, I also had to haul water with buckets and water is fairly heavy. I dreaded the thought of trying to carry buckets of water down the hill and through the snow for my nineteen barn-dwelling critters. So I made my husband get me some water down to the barn. I also demanded electricity to the shop so he could do wood-working all winter. Okay, so maybe these things would be beneficial to him, too, so he readily agreed.

I was nice enough to not make him do all the work at least. We actually hired someone to do the plumbing and the electrical. So one day we arrived home to find giant diggers (as my girls call them) in our yard. The work was about to begin! We had fun watching them dig a huge trench from behind our house down to the barn. The trench was six feet deep and dirt mounded along either side. Getting to the barn became much more challenging and I was now without power in my barn since those lines were cut. But I knew it would be worth the temporary challenge so I could have water nearby.

We had fun watching all the digging going on!