September 20, 2008

• A Good Day to Get A Lot Done

  Today dawned a perfect fall day.  Cool and sunny with a slight breeze.  A perfect day to work on all of the many things that need doing before cold, wet, weather sets in for good.  My wonderful husband likes to wait till the last minute to start these kind of seasonal chores but I am the type who does these things at a slower pace.  I like to do it all a little at a time and get it done right.  Since he is off to work all day long he leaves the pacing to me and lets me just leave him a list of the things that I cannot do myself and need his help on.

  

  What is this?  Is Mary-Kate going a bit overboard?  Sweeping the roof of the garage.  Actually her dad asked her to. 

  

  Our garage leaks, a trifle.  So he is planning on tarring it to cut down on the leaking a bit.

  

  I think that she liked that job.

  

  After the fire in the barn, Doug and Ian took the wood stove out of the dining room so that Mary-Kate wouldn’t be so frightened.  We have decided to put it back this year.  It was cold in the house last winter without it and it was a mild winter.

  

  I don’t want to try a hard winter without it.  So I sanded the stove and blacked it in preparation for putting it back into the house.  The last thing will be to fire it up outside so that the smell of the paint can off-gas outdoors.

  

  Matthew shovelled out the pigpen and did some repairs on it.  He built a lovely ramp so that my girls have an easier time getting in and out because they are in a delicate condition and we don’t want them hurting themselves.

   

  They also fixed the door going outside so that when the piglets are born we can close it off so we don’t lose any of them to the big bad world.

  

  Here are too of the ladies in waiting.  They are due to farrow this week. 

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