Incredibly, the shop had just stopped looking for the missing kingpins. (I'm not sure if they were just planning to hold onto the truck indefinitely. We were pretty unimpressed.) Phil asked for information so he could look, and within a half hour, he had located the proper pieces and they are shipping here. We hope that, by next Tuesday, our truck will no longer have the "death wobble," as one website described it.
Thanks be to God.
With that stressful block (hopefully) overcome, Phil plugged away at fencing. Now that he knows how to drill holes, he set three posts in less than two hours. He spent some time cutting little pine saplings, to determine where to meet the electric line with cattle panels.
As the road crew came through the last two days, we were blessed to get three dump truck loads of wood chips, We used the chips last year in our compost (they haven't all broken down yet), and I'm not sure what we'll do with this batch, but it's a great feeling to have "waste" products put to use.
Yesterday Phil moved the cows and sheep to a new pasture. They all went joyfully, kicking up their heels and dancing.
He then set up a new pen for the piglets. Once out of their little square holding pen, they zoomed around. I watched, and they would come to a screeching halt by the double strand electric wire. (If they had been cartoon characters, they would have had skidmarks behind them.) The incredible joy the animals showed brought smiles to our faces.
We have started to talk about a website and logo. We have done almost no marketing, besides giving eggs away to friends (often I would even forget to mention that future eggs would be available for sale: oops), so we really need to start actively seeking customers.
But, overall, it appears to be progress on all fronts. More seed orders, plow and potting soil in transit, and, so thankfully, the truck on the way.
Yay for progress and answered prayers!!!
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