Today ended up being one of those days where nothing really happened as I intended.

First off, I decided we needed to take a day off yard work.  As much as I love it, I knew I was pushing myself harder than I should.  I need to remind myself that I am still broken, even if I happen to be feeling great on any particular day.  If I overdo it, I’ll wipe myself out for days, and I don’t want to do that!

So I was going to finally start packing up the sun room of my parents’ things, starting after I went into town to pick up some prescription refills.  My younger daughter came along, to drop off resumes and play Pokemon Go. :-D  We were just getting ready to head home when I get a text from my older brother; he was just passing through the town our mom lives in, and on his way to do some work on the barn, in preparation of the electricity to be hooked up again.

He got there before we did. :-D

So I ended up hanging out with him and helping as much as I could.  Being the sort he is, once he finished on the barn, he decided to patch the roof of the shed near it.  That turned out to be a huge job, and that was just to patch one of the holes.  Also near the barn is a collapsed building and sheets of metal roofing material that he had to scavenge to get the job done.

Part way though, I had to leave to do a dump run.  The summer hours for Thursdays is now a lot later than it was during the winter.  When we’d got back from town, the girls and I loaded the back of the van with our garbage, so it was sitting there in the heat.  Definitely a good thing I didn’t decide to wait until Saturday!

After patching the roof, we came in to have the supper my daughters prepared, and then it was back out to fix one more thing before he headed home.  He wanted to replace a melted, broken plug in the pump shack, so that we could have power in the storage shed we’re putting all of my parents’ stuff in.

While we were there, I couldn’t help but look around at all the stuff in there, that’s been sitting for years.

Which is when I noticed this bottle, way up near the rafters.

I tried to get a picture of the label, and enhanced it as well as I know how to do.

It’s still hard to read, but I can make out most of it.

I had to laugh when I got to the end.  For horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, too!  That’s some all purpose stuff, right there! :-D

Oh, and while we were there, I asked about the old wood cook stove that was in the pump shack.  It turned out it’s at my brother’s place.  It seems someone spilled battery acid on it, so he took it before it got damaged even worse!   I was very happy to hear it was with him.

The electric pole did not get delivered today, so we will be expecting it tomorrow.  Now that my brother is finished with what he needed to do at the barn, everything is ready.

It will be so good to have that over and done with!

The Re-Farmer