Around 2 am this morning we started to hear thunder and then the lightning came. With the Chevelle in the garage and the other cars sitting out, we were worried that we were going to get hailed on. Daryl grabbed a hooded sweatshirt and ran out in the rain to put the car and truck inside. Even though we don’t have the farrowing house completed, we still can have the vehicles go in there in case we need to get them under shelter. Daryl was soaking wet when he finally got back into the house. We never did get the hail, but it seemed to try to a couple of times. He heard that around 30 miles from us they did get some small hail. You always hold your breath when a storm comes through, not only for your property but also for the crops. It wasn’t that long ago when storms came through the area and completely stripped the fields. Our fields didn’t get the damage that some of our neighbors did and the next day there was no proof of what was planted in those fields. It just took your breath away when you saw the damage that can happen so fast.
So with the rain last night, I was worried that the wood was still too wet to paint. I spent the time scraping the old milk house to get it ready. That didn’t take all day so I helped William with the wood that he was cleaning up in the farrowing house. He took apart the hog crates and recycled the wood that was on them. He cut it up in manageable pieces that he’s planning on using for a camp fire for his friends in a couple of weeks. He was surprised how much wood he got from the shed. The next step is to work on getting the chain out of the gutter. Daryl has a plan that he wants to try – the problem that he’s running into is trying to find the time.
To finish the day I checked my gopher trap. No surprise – no gopher. So I pulled the trap to see where he was going to go now. Good thing that I’m not making my living trapping gophers. I think I would be broke!