Maybe you've wondered what farmers do in the winter time when the field work is finished? Besides milking, feeding and daily chores?
They take long afternoon naps, vacation in the Carribean and eat bonbons, of course!
Riiiiiiiiiiigggghht...
It's a good time to catch up on repairs on equipment or buildings, especially when you have temps in the 60's and sunshine like today!
This past summer, my parents moved into the house across the road from us. (Oops! I just realized that I never did a blog post of "after"pictures like I promised! Click here if you want to see some of the pictures of the work in progress on their house. I'll try to do a post soon of the finished project!)
Anyway...my Dad recently discovered where some water was getting under the roof on the screened in porch and damaging some wood.
Jim inspected it yesterday and gathered some materials. This afternoon he's been working on the repairs...
It's convenient that Jim worked for a roofer after high school and learned some roofing skills...
I climbed up and "helped" for a little bit, but really wasn't needed, so I skipped out and went to visit our neighbor lady who just had a hip replaced on Monday.
My Dad would love to be up on that roof with Jim, but was content to watch from below...
Jim's been working all afternoon, and the forecast rain has held off. Hopefully he'll get finished before it starts! There will be more wintertime projects to come, I'm sure, and before we know it spring will be here!