Just Another Day at the Farm But Excitement is Growing

Cold enough this morning that all the water troughs were frozen. I thumped the water containers with a swift kick or two and that broke up the ice. I made sure to do the fish pond so that I didn't lose any more fish to a lack of oxygen. Sun, too, although it doesn't seem to be getting all that much warmer.

The cows are standing with their sides to the sun. You can tell they're really enjoying the feel of it on their bodies.

Lots of excitement building across the Nation over the upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama. I'm going to have to get up really early if I want to start watching at 7am Eastern Time.

Spent time reading my professional email. I had to stop reading email and reboot the router and modem because we kept losing DSL.

DSL has been intermittent for the past three weeks. Wonder if it has anything to do with the cold spell hitting the country. I finally called today but they recommended that I turn off all my equipment, wait two minutes and plug everything back in again. It worked. I have DSL again. I can't survive without high speed Internet access.

Gary N came for a visit late in the afternoon. We chatted for several hours, well, Chas and Gary did, I had to go out to do evening chores but I did get some words in. I told Gary about all my plans for new pastures and for replacing the old corral.

Dinner was "breakfast-for-dinner." We ate bacon cooked in the oven - the best way to cook bacon as far as I'm concerned, eggs from our hens who are finally laying again, and grits. Great dinner. The bacon is so good. I may start crisping up some of our bacon so that we can use it for putting on our lunch salads instead of buying bacon bits at Costco.

I've decided to have Pat M put up some shelves for me in my study over my desk. There will be two shelves on the left and one on the right over the computer. The right shelf will be in the middle of the other two and will overlap. That is, we'll put up three standards and the three shelves will share the middle one. I want to get the router and modem off my desk and also put the computer wires up where I can see them so I don't have to crawl around under my desk to check wiring or when I have to plug in new or unplug old equipment.

I need to get to bed since I'm going to get up really early so that I can be done with chores by 7am in time to watch the inauguration ceremonies.