The Wife is noticing that this time of year is less than glamorous. The leaves are off the trees and laying on the ground brown and withered. There's mud everywhere, mixed with dead grass and hay. And Dear Farmer's jobs are practically mundane...but because of the exciting spring and summer-time, they were pushed off to "before winter" on the list.
So for the past week, Dear Farmer has been retro-fitting a small shanty (used to be a curbside bus-stop for another farm) to fit over his motors and chutes for the chicken feed. Someday there will be a nice facility built around these chutes and motors and someday that facility will connect to the brooder houses that will someday will be built. But that's someday, not today. So for now, retro-fitting this little shanty that's 6'x4' is what he has to do to make pumping feed less like aiming a stream of feed towards a bucket while the wind blows it in your face.
The shanty is in place, the motors and chutes are cozy inside, and now the motors are being hardwired into the panel. Up until now the motors have been given electricity by extension cords(heavy duty all weather cords). It has been okay, but if an extension cord was needed for any other project it was stolen...not good when anyone else went to pump feed and found they couldn't. And since this is all towards the someday-plan, Dear Farmer is running the electricity to power the someday facility as well. Think of it, lightbulbs for brooder houses powered by hardwired electricity. Lights outside so we can see in the dark for evening chores and morning chores...o the possibilities!
It's a happy day for the chickens! They'll never have another wind-blown-wind-covered Dear Farmer feeding them again. There won't be an extension cord missing so we can't feed them. Dear Farmer will be able to see what he's doing for chores, instead of working by braile. O the simple things in life-electricity-how great is that!
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