I think this was the quickest trip ever to the farm. Amanda got in Tuesday evening and had wanted to come to the farm, but the forecast was for rain Wednesday and Thursday. As it turned out, it would have been fine. But by Thursday morning the forecast was for 4-8 inches of snow for Thursday afternoon followed by very cold temps. Since she was leaving Saturday evening, I knew this meant a trip to the farm even Christmas (Friday) evening was out. And since the forecast was for 4 days of sub-freezing temperatures I was worried about the pilot going out on the lone heater left in the house. The other heater was still at Anderson's where they had adjusted the pilot.
So I left Fayetteville at 9:08, picked up the heater in Hindsville, and had it hung and the pilot lit by 11:oo. I then filled the bird feeders and seeing the pond very full headed down to unclog the culverts.
Sure enough the beavers had them about two thirds plugged up. I cleared them in the light rain that had begun to fall. I was back at the house by 1:oo. It turns out I didn't miss anything since Sally and Amanda had been to see Bill Tims and were just finishing up.
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