Red Meat

Ameren shut down our power for an hour and a half Wednesday afternoon to do some repair work following the Tuesday night storm.  When the power was restored, we had a ventilation/heating controller that was dead in our pig nursery.  Fortunately we had a replacement circuit board in stock, so I spent most of Thursday morning replacing it.

"The tissue issue is resolved!"  

The wife of my youth is one of the church cleaners and is responsible for purchasing the toilet tissue.  She switched suppliers last week and found out that not all tissue dispensers use the same width tissue rolls.  We didn't even know that tissue came in different widths.  We knew that roll diameter varied, and that softness varies from sandpaper to squeezably soft, but didn't know width varied.  In particular, certain commercial dispensers only work with a specific size roll.  The tissue issue has been resolved, but we now have a whole case of the wrong size to use up at home!

Thursday evening, we received a text from Son#1 saying that all the food in their freezer was soft.  We had several things to do first, then we headed over to assess the situation.  Everything was still cold, and much still partially frozen, so we decided to try to salvage everything from their full freezer.  We gathered ice chests and emptied the freezer and distributed the refreezable food to D#2's freezers and our freezers.  The softest meat went into refrigerators to be cooked first and then refrozen. Meat juices and thawed red beets made the freezer and food a bloody looking mess!  Hopefully it will all be good quality if not a little freezer burnt.

This little farmer stopped by to help Grandpa today.

I think that I have my taxes ready to go to our accountants, along with the oldest farmer's taxes.  It's that time of year again.

And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's.

Luke 20:25