We knew when we bought the property there was a water leak at the main on our side not the city side. Which is why I did not get the water turned on until after we were there. The water was leaking over a gallon a minute which can get pretty pricy pretty quickly. But we did not know exactly where it was. We were given a phone number to a ditch digger that came out within 30 minutes of being called that showed my dad where the leak was, gave us a part to turn the water line on and off all for no charge. Him and my dad are now best buds and has literally been so helpful in many instances since we got there. My dad got up early the next morning (he is definitely a morning person…..I did not get that gene) and dug up the line and found the leak.
After finding the leak and my dad working on it to get it fixed we found out that there was actually water to the barn. YAY! But we did not know where it was either. We did not have all the parts needed to fix the problem due to the way the piping was put in. The broken pipe was actually a Y that supplied the water to the house and to the barn. My dad patched it so we could use the shower that night in the house that we got off amazon for temporary showering. When we hooked that up we found another water leak inside but luckily it just needed tightening and was a quick easy fix.
Everything was pretty grown up and had not been mowed in a quite a while so when I was at Lowe’s I had purchased a new lawn mower (self-propelled…. I know super Fancy, right?) the mower dies several times due to the height of the grass and we had to make several passes to get it all cut but it was very satisfying in the end. The hill going up to the entrance was quite the chore though. Self propelled going up was great but not going down. It was so steep and the ground was so slick that it literally pulled me down the hill and fell onto my butt a few times too. At one point I fell and let go of the mower for safety reasons and it went all the way down to the bottom of the hill. We worked on mowing the yard for a couple days but finally got it done. It looked amazing and when I tell you the grass felt so soft and amazing on our feet with out any stickers in it, oh it was heavenly. When I just finished mowing around the front gate and beside the barn an Amish buggy came by. I just love our little farm.
Pink Squirrel Farmstead 