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Last week our old well finally ran dry.  They had warned us about it when we moved in, and so we had a new well dug last year.  It was a rather wet year, however, and we were never able to get the new well hooked up.  So now we were in a bit of an emergency situation.  Fortunately we were able to get a neighbor who does excavating to come out on Monday.  He did the trenching for us and we got power and pipe out to the new well.  We now have 50 glorious pounds of constant water pressure due to our new water system being 100% functional!  Thanks also to Uncle Stan, who is staying with us for a week and who we were able to force into slave labor.  Check out some pictures from the day by clicking on the thumbnail to the upper-left of this post, or by clicking on the post title.  Or, if you can already see all the thumbnails below, click on one of them to blow it up.

Jack and I got another building roofed today.  We’re in a rush to get these buildings done because the snow will be flying soon!  It’s actually just above freezing now, and we just finished.  So the cold weather is already taking its toll!  The prognosticators have issued a Winter Storm Watch for tomorrow, and say that we are likely to get a few inches of snow.

We’ll be having Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, and Thea has been “Susie Homemaker” today while I’ve been crawling around up on the roof.  Turkey, dressing, sweet and mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole, and pumpkin pies….     I can hardly wait (or stop drooling on my keyboard)!

I’m testing out some photo album plug-ins with this post.  To see the photo album, first access the full blog post-page by clicking on the picture of Autumn to the left of this paragraph or by clicking on the name of the blog post above (”Our first “farm” animals). On the page that comes up, you should see thumbnails for the gallery photos available. Click on one of the thumbnails to bring up the nice gallery viewer. From there you can use “next” and “prev” at the bottom of the picture or just close the new window and open another. So, here goes the entry:

We finally have our first real farm animals: a dozen chickens that Aunt Martha raised for us.  They are starting to lay eggs for us (yum) already.  Also shown here are a few of our cats and our puppy Sneakers.  Sneakers is a Golden Retreiver crossed with a Great Pyrenees.  We are hoping she will be a great “coyote killer” and keep all of our other animals safe at night!

Also, I’ve included some pictures of a few of our out-buidings.  We are trying to get a number of them covered with steel roofs before the snow flies.

Enjoy the pics!