Wet and Cold

We had an absolute down pour this week, and it just kept raining for 12 hours. The pond over flowed. The stream over flowed. The pastures were flooded. Parts of the driveway washed out.

So we stayed indoors and got caught up on various things...

Thursday morning, the temperature dropped. We got our cracked septic line replaced, and it started to snow.

Thursday afternoon, we held our Home School PE class indoors at the YMCA.

After PE, I told the boys to delay their hot showers, and to put on their insulated overalls, gloves and wellie boots, because we were going into the stream to repair our fence line that got whacked by the flood (and some big debris). First we had to dig tons of wet leaves out of the tangled mess and lighten the weight before we could lift the fence.  

There should have been a nice straight fence across this part of the stream, but it's not here. It started snowing harder. 

K6 showed up to lend a hand, which was greatly appreciated.

With his muscles, the hard part - pulling the fence back across the stream - got much easier. Check out his stylist hat - he looks like an English farmer.

Teamwork.

K7 and K6 made a temporary repair and we headed  home for hot showers and hot chocolate.

Our homework this week is to come up with a better design for fencing over the stream. This incident was just a test before the Spring rains come in earnest.