Typical Weekend

Glory Farm calf watch 2014 is in full swing.  Agnes is getting very close, which means a restless night for her owners.  I went to bed last night, but set the alarm for midnight, when I threw a jacket on over my flannel cow pj’s, put my boots on and sauntered out to the field to check on her with a strong flash light in hand.  I spent enough time with her to know she was not calving and passed the ‘calf watch baton’ to My Loving Spouse for the 5:00 am alarm.   Up very early for church and still no calf.

Our weekend started by taking Dear John and Dear John’s Wife out for diner and a ‘boot of beer’.  We do so enjoy having them around.  They are interested in just about everything, take all our the farm’s craziness in stride and were our what-to-watch-for-the-heifer-might-be-calving-back-up emergency response team.  With this stay’s project completed, they were set to roll on to their next adventure.With our Schroeder family off down the drive way, we set about our weekend chores.  The front of the house had no hose spigot, so watering the flower boxes took multiple trips with the watering can and when I needed to use a hose out there, it took three hoses attached together to make the distance, but just barely.  Needless to say, a hose spigot would really come in handy and we’ve been trying to figure out how to make it all work, because 2 years without a hose is a long time.  Did I say that there is no hose spigot in the front yard?  After all, if there were one, we’d know it.  Luckily, My Loving Spouse figured out how to tap into the sprinkler system to add a hose spigot for me…he said, it would be really easy, so we started digging around the sprinkler box…to find a second round sprinkler box contraption.  

“Oh, what is this…” as he dug about just on the other side of the box where he’d planned to add the hose spigot.  He got it opened found a strange plumbing do-hickey (technical term) and unscrewed it.  It was then there was a very loud ‘pop’, almost like a ‘bang’, water went spewing forth, My Loving Spouse went rolling backward covered in watery mud.  I went for the main-line water shut off tool.

So it seems, all this time there was no hose spigot, there was a quick connect attachment thing for a hose spigot.  Sometimes it is really helpful if you actually know what you are looking for…

Long story short, we now have a hose spigot in the front yard and are ready for easy watering.

….and since we were at the hardware store getting hose spigotty things to replace the one that got dismantled, I got us ready for our calf as well.