Rainy Day at Willow Pond

Today was a rainy day since a tropical storm was moving in. Rainy days are good for getting little inside projects completed and we had plenty of those since moving in. There are still pictures not hung on the wall, the master bathroom shower needed new caulk and a variety of other little things that we knew would need to be done to the house when we bought it. We have been so busy over the past 8 weeks just getting everything here and getting the animals here that little things have been left undone. Rainy days are also good for getting to know how your property handles loads of water dumped on you in one day. Ours does pretty well. We knew we would have issues in the barn area and we do....all around the barn. So we are moving that up on the priority list to take care of. There is just so much and so many things seem to be a priority. Well, we do what we can do in the time we have to work. Moving a farm is so hard. We did what need to be done to get the animals here, but they are not ideally housed. The goats have a pasture and had a temporary shelter that they tore down this past week. I haven't had time to replace it so on this very rainy day they have had.....a tree. Again, I can only do so much. Ideally we would have liked to have had everything in place and everything done like we wanted to start off with, but that just didn't happen in reality. Reality says this is a long project that will take time and we can't pay for two places for all that time. So we do what we can as we can. The rainy days like today give us a chance to take a break from the big projects and enjoy our little projects... the little things that make a house a home. Tonight is even a clean out the refrigerator for supper night, so another good thing about rainy days. Nobody worked hard enough to work up an appetite so a light meal is just fine. Next time you have a rainy day, think about the joy you can find. Blessings, Kat