Got a call from some neighbors this afternoon that simultaneously made me $20 and reminded me that I’m about to lose my only regular income.
“Hey, Joel! I’m trenching from the house to the barn, and at some point I’m going to cross a water line. Can you come spot for me? Might take ten minutes, might take an hour and a half.”
Two hours later the trench was complete but we still hadn’t found that water line. And two hours standing in the hot sun…well, I should have prepared better for that because I got back home, tended the chickens, took a shower at Ian’s, sat down to read a book…first the headache started, then my vision went all blurry…first migraine of the summer. So far it hasn’t been a bad one, but I’m slugging down water and hoping it isn’t one of the double whammies I got last year.
J&H are moving out of state, at least for a few years, and taking all but one of their horses with them. L is taking one of them, and we’ll be converting their barn to accommodate her. So the barn will need running water, hence the trench. And I’m losing my job, hence the need for a new income stream. Not that I’ve gotten much writing done in the past couple of days.
