Is this our January thaw? A little late, but we'll take it! It's like a sudden boost of energy when you can wear fewer layers of clothes to the barn. All at once, you begin to see projects all around you that you wanted to accomplish all winter but just didn't want to dig around in the snow to work on. It's amazing all that appears once the snow melts away.
Farmer Rick worked on a project for the last two days that he finally finished up last night. We now have a new (well, semi-new) door between the barn and milkhouse. We needed a window to put in it, so we found a small sheet of left-over roofing from our sunroom, cut it to size, and Walla! we have a nice window to see into the barn with. That's nice to have because when you're carrying a couple of milkers out to the transport cart, and somebody's carrying an armful of calf bottles in the other direction, you can atleast see the other person coming before you get a door pushed open in the face. We did have a bit of a snare when hanging the door, though. When attaching the spring, Farmer Rick didn't have it quite on the hook. At that time, the phone rang which happens to be hanging right next to the milkhouse door. I answered it and TWING, the spring flung off and came right at my face! Had it not been for the phone cord getting entwined in the spring right before it hit me, we could have had quite an accident. Again, that was one of many, many times that I know that God was watching out for me.
We have had incidents before like that wherein I know without a doubt that we were spared from far greater injury. I don't know how things work in a realm that we cannot see, but I am so glad that we can put our trust in God to see us through. And when the bad times come, and do they ever, we know that we don't have to go through them alone. Sometimes he calms the storm... and sometimes he calms his child.
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