We have had a busy 2 days...

We were running some errands, yesterday when we got a call from the farm, the old mares had been in the pond enclosure, and one of them, Picnic, had broken a pipe on the well, so we had no water in the house. Since we were already out, Kenney sent a picture of the break from his phone to mine, and called me with a description of what we needed to buy. We stopped at a hardware store and bought what we thought we needed. It wasn't.

Meanwhile, back at the farm, the other old mare, Buttercup, fell down, and couldn't get back up. A healthy horse can die if it gets into a situation where it can't get to it's feet. Buttercup is 30ish, and being treated for 2 hoof abscesses in her front feet. She wasn't able to regain her feet without help.

So there we were trying to get the wrong parts to work to fix the well, and Buttercup was lying on the cold ground in s misty rain and cold wind, and couldn't get back up. I covered her with a small tarp to help conserve her body heat.

Michelle left work early, to try and help Buttercup, and meanwhile we convinced Mike to cut the entire connection off the well, and take it along to Home Depot to buy the correct parts, 100 ft of extension cord, and a worklight.

While we were at Home depot, Mike and Michelle managed to get the old mare back on her feet, after scrubbing, medicating,and bandaging her front feet.

We bought what we needed, and fixed the well in the dark and rain. We let the PVC glue dry while we ate the chicken we picked up while we were out, then turned the water back on.

Here are pictures of the troublemakers.




Today, we started building a well house so that nothing like this can happen again. We are using landscape timbers for uprights, and fence boards from our old wooden fence as walls, covered with roofing felt, to make it waterproof. Here are some pictures of the uprights, as we squared them up, and poured concrete into the holes. We will finish next week. We have to finish packing our Pack Rat storage container, tomorrow, cause we only have till Saturday before we need to move it.