My Dale

I am so excited because as we speak a brand new water softener and reverse osmosis water system are being installed on the farm.
We had the Culligan man out on Tuesday. He tested the water and said that a 0 is very soft water, a 2 is ok and a 7 is extremely hard water. Ours tested at a 35!!!!!!! The new water softener he said will take care of a lot of those problems and they are installing a reverse osmosis system on the kitchen sink so that we will have better drinking water.
The story goes that Grandma Edith never liked the way that the well water tasted either so Grandpa Paul's friend Dale Curry used to bring in jugs of water from his farm because it tasted better. I understand where Edith was coming from now!
But now we have our own Dale - the Culligan man!!

The county was out yesterday to test for nitrates, bacteria, etc. in the well. We are keeping our fingers crossed. We don't have any other options for water besides that well. Xenia water lines run through the front of the farm, but it would cost $6-grand to hook into them and the company is going bankrupt and threatening to raise people's monthly bill by 63%!! We'd end up paying over $200 a month just in water. No way!

Love about the farm

It is so easy to make a list of things we love about the farm.

The number one thing though - the quiet!

There aren't cars screaming up and down the street at 2 a.m. or the Manson crotch rocket gang flying down Main Street at 4 in the morning. The kid with the booming bass isn't driving passed the house at 6 a.m. waking up the girls anymore. Truly the only sound that I have heard in the last two hours was Buddy, our farm dog, barking as he chased a young raccoon out of the nearby sweet corn patch. Otherwise all I hear are a few random crickets and the fantastic sound of SILENCE!!!!