Country Living

Country magazines paint a picture of an idyllic country lifestyle making some folks dream of a utopia free of rush hour traffic and full of fresh food harvested from the garden. Even the cows here think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence as they reach their heads through the fence for that greener grass. That must be where the saying comes from. Anyways, truth be told . . . any place has its pros and cons. There are wonderful aspects of the country life. There are also challenges. Peace and quiet is traded for convenience. Things break and need to be fixed and in these here parts, you fix 'em yourself.

Just this week, we are working on extending water out to the barn and shop building. The compression fittings on the PVC connections just weren't holding. So we borrowed a friend's socket fusion block to heat plastic piping to 500 degrees using a cutting torch, thereby melting the ends of the pipe and fittings to fuse them together. We're keeping our fingers cross that that does the trick.