Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

 The last day or so we've been blessed with over 2 inches of rain; most came overnight.  But prior to that we were in drought mode. So much so that the area where Gary bulldozed turned into this dust bowl. It was so dusty in fact that, as you can see, there were so many tracks in it I just had to take pictures. Deer Dog Opossum Coon? Does anyone see anything else?   Well, in looking at them again I don't see any of Bella's prints.   I'm sure now that there are tracks in the mud.  And for that we are so grateful. It has been warm the past week and what with the rain now the grass is growing back again.  This is good because it means we, and other folks around here, can put off feeding hay for a while longer.  Though I know some people already had started feeding hay.

 Last week I went with Gary on another well job.  This time it was to our neighbor-across-the-river.  Mary G. is in her 70s, lives alone, though her boyfriend, as it were, lives just around the corner from her a ways.  He is in his 80s.  But Mary had back surgery here a couple of weeks ago, so while she can maneuver around, she has to be very careful.   She has chickens and Guinea fowl, and they need water.  But her outside water source in the well house below is/was a spigot underneath the tank there as you can see below.  You can't really tell in the pic, but that door is rather narrow. So she wanted Gary to install an outside spigot so she would be able to water her flock by herself instead of calling on Carl, or other neighbors to help her.  So off we went. This pic is where he is cutting back an elderberry bush.   Things were going along swimmingly until he went to remove the old spigot so he could install the fittings to attach the new hose to get it from the tank to the spig