Country girls can survive

So I bought this ladder at a flea market with the idea of hanging it in my laundry room for a drying rack.  The issue became how to hang it where to hang it so it wasn't a nusence  - I am shorter than my hubby by a foot and now even my 12yr old is taller than me.  I am no dwarf by any means but 5'2" has it limitations, I suppose.  So it sat and sat and one day I was outside and thought why not hang it off the well house and next spring we can hang plants on it in hanging baskets. And Boom! Done!

We have had the workings of this contraption for a good month now. It is a chicken watering system the idea is they drink out of the individual nipples.  We will see how it works but should be nice and a lot easier than the previous waterer where we had to get in the coop to retrieve it and then fill it and replace it without loosing any chickens in the process.  Right now we have it in there so the chickens can check it out and I will have to make some adjustments to figure a small leak out but I think it will be a good thing in the end.





Hay, or grass because that is what this actually is, is a necessity when you have 2 horses and a donkey. No, I didn't load it but I unloaded it, well Chloe helped, sparking the first "why did Dad have to leave" comment.  I like driving the big truck and seeing all the crazy looks of "little woman in giant truck" and then getting out the tie down straps and securing it before we take off, I am sure there were some nervous fellas as we left the feed store.

This garden has been a wonderful experience.  Watching things grow from simple seeds to food is such a wonder.  Seeing God work in our own back yard is so awesome.  I enjoy weeding, I just don't have enough time, it could be a full time job especially after the rain we had a few weeks ago.  But by getting some dirt under my nails I will get it cleaned up, slowly but it will happen.

 All of these things are just a few of what goes on around here no matter who is here or not.  Chloe and I have always done things around the house and yard, so Trav being gone is no different but I do miss saying to him "Hey, can you lift that heavy thing" or "Can you reach that high thing" but these country girls will survive.