What A Morning!

We went down the road to feed the neighbors' horses yesterday morning. Their water was shut off because of the cold, but we needed to refill the stock tank in the horse pasture. Daddy turned on the water and noticed that the pipes in the barn had burst. He quickly shut off the water, and Momma drove home to call the neighbors. In the meantime, Stretch, Lady, Julie, and Tux had no access to water. Annie and I led them to the pond so they could drink. Nobody seemed thirsty, and they were too busy being frisky to pay much attention.

After consideration, we became worried that pipes had burst in the house as well. Since we were unable to enter the house, we decided to fill the stock tank from the broken pipes at the barn. We were so thankful that before we were able to drive down and do that, a helpful neighbor filled the tank for us. We are blessed with really nice neighbors.

When we returned home from the neighbors' house in the morning, a neighbor from the other end of the road called us. She had hit a Red-faced Screech-owl with her truck on the way to work. It survived, and she took it home. Since we needed to go to her house yesterday morning anyway, we got to go and see the owl. It was so cute, poor little thing. Our neighbor took the owl to the vet school to be cared for.