Balmy

After Friday morning's -21 degrees, Saturday afternoon's 30 degrees seemed positively balmy. We still have two frozen hog waterers, but it is much easier to work on them in this weather.
Most of our sows are housed in open front sheds and bedded with straw. One of the pens was flooded Saturday afternoon. We discovered a pipe that burst from the freezing and feverishly worked to fix it and still make it to Church rotating potluck. We jerry-rigged a patch and rebedded the pen, and were only a half hour late to potluck.

This evening we had a late family "Christmas" potluck at the Old Sourdough Ranch. At one point in the evening the poetry recitation began. My favorites included Robert Service and Baxter Black poems. And we had a good dose of Uncle Bill jokes.