Back to reality – Thursday

We got home this morning around 4 am and it was -18 degrees and I was freezing! I decided to run the tub full of hot water and just kind of hang out in it. It worked pretty good and what I did was turn the hot water on so it wasn’t running too fast and then kept it going for around 30 minutes. It was kind of like a mini hot tub or something. I laughed when I told Kyle what I did and he looked at me and smiled and said that he knew that trick a long time ago. No wonder his baths take so long. But while I was laying there I was thinking about our trip and what a great time we had. Since we didn’t really sleep since the day before, I would doze on and off while I was soaking and trying to get warm. I did realize though that I had to make a decision pretty soon. I had the day scheduled off from work, and I said that I might come in anyway. So I had to decide if I was going to go or not. I knew that I was going to be tired, but I thought that I’d just go in anyway and try to get through it. I could always leave earlier if I had to. And to be honest I’d rather use the vacation day this summer kayaking or something other than catching up on my sleep in January. Daryl did take the day off and was planning on pushing snow out of the yard. So I got dressed and went outside to start our car. It hadn’t been started for the whole week that we were gone, but I still didn’t think that it would give me any trouble. Well, that was a wrong idea. It wouldn’t start. It wouldn’t even turn the motor over. So I hurried to start the truck to see if I could get it defrosted in time to get to work. I mean I was up since 4 am, how in the world could I go to work late? I was able to leave on time and I even had enough time to stop off at our local gas station to grab a Diet Coke and a breakfast pizza. I can’t believe how many people that we’ve talked to over the years that haven’t heard of breakfast pizza before and let me tell you that you’re missing out on some fast and good breakfast if you haven’t tried it. I was worried that because we had so many opportunities to eat while we were on vacation – that I was going to literally starve at work today. But I kept pretty busy and it wasn’t too bad. After work when I got home I noticed that the yard wasn’t cleaned out. Now it was Daryl’s vacation day, and who am I to say what he should do with it. But I secretly thought to myself.. ‘What in the world did he do all day?’ Then I found out just what happened. To start it off, the car wouldn’t start right? Well, the battery finally died in the car and he was going to get a replacement for it. Then around noon, Kyle yelled out to Daryl when he was in the yard that there was no water in the house. This isn’t good. Daryl went to check it out and found out that our well pump was froze up. After quite awhile with the nipco heater trying to get it thawed, it finally broke loose. Thank goodness! Otherwise he was going to have to call someone to come to the farm to look at it. After the pump was working again he started to work on the cow water. Kyle told us that on Wednesday it froze up and he was filling the tank with water that he was carrying by pails. So Daryl pulled the nipco from the pump platform to the water tank to try to get that thawed out. What a day he had. And man oh man I was glad that I didn’t say a thing to Daryl when I pulled into the yard tonight after work about the yard.