We had a storm come through last night, wind and rain. It took out a section of the neighbor's fence behind us. Tree limbs were down everywhere. Our electric went out for about 3 hours. I brought a portable heater into the house to keep things warm and set up my battery banks with the LED lights. I'm thankful that I have that equipment in the event of power outages.
The toilet in the back bathroom was leaking and a lot of parts on it were bad so I just took the thing out and bought a new one and installed it. The chicken tractor in the back has a tarp over it to keep rain off the chickens. The wind had torn it apart so I had to go by a new tarp to put over that. The old tarp I had on there was a three mil, the new one I got is 12 mil so I hope that will hold up a lot longer. I put in a 13-hour day today getting things done. I'm 68 years old so I'm glad I can still keep going like that. I was up at 5:00 a.m. and glad I was because of the storm. The first thing I did was to get the chickens taken care of. When I built the chicken tractor I put a platform toward the back so they can go up there. I put pine chips on it where they can lay their eggs. They sometimes huddle together up there too when it gets colder out. Today wasn't too bad even though it snowed a little bit.