Yesterday’s events

Mama’s surgery went without a problem yesterday. It took her about four hours to really wake up from the anesthetic but other than that she is doing quite well. I met with the doctor after her surgery and he was not too happy with the results. He told me that what he had done will buy her some time but the damage to the knee was too extensive for him to really fix in an arthroscopic procedure. Like the last time we visited in such a manner, he hoped he bought her five years or more before a total knee replacement is required.

We got home about 3:30 pm because I took a detour to look at a property Victoria really liked. By MapQuest assessment it was about twenty minutes from Decatur. That turned out to be a little longer than it actually was, but from the initial look of the place I was not overly thrilled with it. Granted, we will have to schedule a closer look if we really want to know the particulars but I will not be rushing back.

I also took Mama to the place I would buy if it were possible. It is one of those items in the Christian walk that Paul spoke about when he said that all things are permissible for him but not all things are expedient. We will know more today after the realtor comes to look over the farm. I will be interested in her reaction to the changes. She is one of the few people who know the mess we walked into in our initial look at the farm over two years ago.

When I did get Mama home and set up on the couch I immediately went out to help Grandpa work on the lights on the little truck. We were successful in most of the repair we were able to do but I still do not both of the license plate lights working. I will have to buy a small part for the full repair. Grandpa was able to get the pigtail for the trailer working fully, so that was a blessing.

What I did not know until after we were started on the truck was that the water was not working in the house. So, after we got the wiring on the truck wrapped and sealed we moved over to the well house. Our initial suspicion was that the problem was the pressure switch but after we spent the time going to town to get the replacement parts and installing them the problem remained.

I took down the control box that routes the power to the well pump and as soon as we opened it we knew we had found the issue. In the control box there is a set of four wires that engage the pump based on a signal from the pressure switch. All the wires in the box had been stripped of their insulation by mice – whose nest we had to remove from the box.

Once we repaired the wires and set everything back in order, the pump started operating properly. The bad part is that by that time it was 7:15 pm. So we missed church.

While I had been waiting on Mama at the hospital Grandpa and Grandma took our biggest steer to the meat packers in Windthorst, TX. We will have to call sometime next week to tell them how we want the meat cut and wrapped and I will have to make sure we have the money to cover the costs when Grandpa and Mama go to pick it up, but we will have our own beef in the freezer.

It has been a long time since we have had that luxury.