Everything went well with the laundry room except one of the washers is showing a code now so we will have to get that repaired eventually. I am sure my mom is glad not to have to go to the laundromat anymore.
We cleared out the hill behind the house to keep varmints from getting close to the house as winter approaches. I used the walk behind weed eater to do most of it but part of the hill was as just too steep so my dad and Hunter finished up with weed eaters. I also hit a bee hive and made some bees very unhappy with me.
The kids and I finished working on the loft above the workshop in the barn. We chunked most of it out the exterior door to the hayloft in 2 batches, after each we organized them into piles so the other stuff wouldn’t get broken in the pile. There was a ton of trash, windows, and lots of wood. Found extra replacement pieces for the vinyl siding on the house and some other random stuff. No fun finds other than wood. We checked on the Mama cat while we were up there and she is doing great along with the 5 adorable babies. She is getting a little more friendly each day.
On Tuesday the part to the Side by Side was scheduled to come in. You would think that my dad was getting in a check for a million dollars. He even started stalking the UPS man to see exactly where he was at. Then when the UPS man came by he went up the driveway to the neighbors house first. I busted out laughing, it was too funny. Unfortunately, by the time he got there with the part it was starting to get dark so he would have to wait until morning to fix it. Before I got out of bed (at day light) my dad was already down working on it. By mid morning he had it up and going. My parents took it for a romantic drive to the Amish store right down the road and my dad came back and said “it doesn’t go fast enough.” Back story, when I was a teenager I had a racing 4-wheeler and I told my dad it did not go fast enough and he grounded me from it. Rude, I know! Maybe I should have grounded him from the side by side.
Now that it was fixed I finally got to see the back of the property. Yes, I was too lazy to walk to the back of the property. But it was nice to finally explore not of foot!
There was a large pond like body of water that we weren’t quite sure was so we went back to explore a bit. The beavers have damned up a creek and with all the rain we had it was quite the body of water. It was very disgusting but cool, all at the same time. Found several logs that the beavers have been gnawing on. The neighbors to the right have told us before that sometimes they have to destroy the beaver damn but didn’t realize it was that big. Now we know what he was talking about.
It was our last day in Kentucky and we soaked it up as much as possible. I missed my hubby and I was ready to be home but I wanted to take my goat home too. Maybe I could pass Buford off as a new dog breed. He likes sitting on the porch like a dog. Chad said no we couldn’t keep a goat in the RV.
I would say I would just stay another week in Kentucky to punish him for telling me no but he has already proved since I have been away from him for 3 weeks that I must die before him, he is spoiled and would not survive without me. He has burnt pizzas, broke a mirror, spilled stain in my bathroom sink and managed to break the washer/dryer. Maybe the last one wasn’t entirely his fault but he was the one using it when it broke. He was redoing our bathroom to surprise me but I don’t do surprises and FaceTimed him too much for him to keep it a secret! He also cleaned out the hot tub and got it ready for me so I could soak in it when I got home. He is truly the best and I couldn’t wait to be home in his arms.
The next morning I took Hunter to his job interview at Wendy’s. Unfortunately they did him wrong and I was astonished that a company would treat a potential employee that way. His interview was supposed to be at 9am. He went in 10 minutes prior to his appointment time. They had him sit at a booth then a while later came and told him that his interviewer would not be there until around 9:30. He sat patiently and waited. At 10 am he had still not been interviewed and no one had even talked to him about it. He finally went back up to the counter and asked about his interview and they took his name and number down, said they would have the interviewer call him but has yet to do so. It’s sad that so many companies are short staffed but he keeps trying to get a job. He is Autistic but he is high functioning and a hard worker. I told him that it is their loss and to keep looking because apparently they do not value your time. So he will continue to work on the farm and help his grandparents out. After supposed to be interview, I dropped Hunter off at the farm, hooked up the trailer and headed back to Texas. I made it to New Boston, Texas that night and stopped at a hotel. We continued our journey home the next morning and made it home safe and sound.
Pink Squirrel Farmstead 