What do you do when you have a free morning on a beautiful fall day?
And oh yes... you have a helper?
You wash the outside of the pipeline...
Although the milk never touches the outside of the pipeline, it helps with overall cleanliness in the barn. Day after day of bedding up with sawdust, spreading fodder in the gutters, and cows swishing their tails (or coughing when they poop!), all the surfaces in the barn get dusty and dirty. Daniel was helping this morning, and he got that fun job. It's especially nice that he's tall, and can reach those places that I have to stretch for!
Look how nice it looks when it's finished! The stainless steel shines...
I got the job of cleaning the barn windows. Again...day after day of dust accumulates on the windows. When we can start writing on them, we know it's past time to clean them! Here's an embarrassing "before" picture...
First I hosed them down, inside and out...
Then I used a long handled brush with some soapy water to scrub them...
...and after a final rinse, the view is
much better! It makes the whole barn seem so much brighter when these two jobs are finished!
While cleaning is not something I enjoy, it's satisfying to see the difference when the job is finished! Thanks to Daniel, both jobs were completed in one morning!
