Sunday, April 11, 2010

An Exciting Day on the Farm!

Wow!  What a day!  Saturday, we planted the garden.  Corn, cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini, yellow squash.  The new grape vines and trees arrived about 7:00 PM.  Planted 10 grape vines, a pomegranate, an elderberry, two PawPaws, and a Vitex.  Also planted flowers in the pots on the front porch.  About 10 PM, Jack comes upstairs while Jerry is in the tub and says, "I think you should look at the shower and tub downstairs."  Jerry goes downstairs to find the septic system backing up in the boys bathroom and the media room.  Ugh.  The carpet in the media room is soaking about ten feet in from the drain in the utility closet.  The septic system is making ocean like sounds outside.  It is hard to see anything in the dark.  Jerry removes the cover, it is full, the pump is obviously not working.  He proceeds to use a sump pump to start pumping water out.  At midnight we are ripping up carpet in the media room and bleaching floors.  We get in bed about 1 AM, exhausted. 
Sunday
We get up and start getting ready for church.  Jerry goes out to feed the chickens.  Calls us and says the pig is out, come help find her.  Oh, good cow.  We find her, or the neighbor does at his house.  We herd her back to the pen.  Jerry fixes the pen so she can't get out.  Little does he know what Sally Soo Wii is plotting.  Sally Soo Wii is the pig.  While he is watering the freshly planted grapes the driveway alert goes off.  I think what now.  Look out the front door and see Sally Soo Wii headed down the lane.  Off we go pig chasing again.  I jump in my little Jetta, and zip down the lane to catch up with the pig.  I pick up Jerry on the way.  We leap from the car, and start herding Sally Soo Wii back to her appointed lodging.  Thinking Freezer Camp is where she needs to be.  She is crying and mad.  Making all kinds of racket, the kind that pigs make.  Jerry again, fixes the pen so she can't get out.  What a day. And it is only 10:30 AM.  What else does the day hold?

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