Helping Friends

Today is a beautiful, sunny day. Frontier Hubby had meetings this morning and is home working on a friend's computer. We went to visit another friend to help her clean out the chimney. As of last night, she could not burn in it without smoking herself out of the house.
Saturday, our chimney was bad enough to get us to clean it out, so we have some recent practice! We had to take most all of it apart to clean it as the angles in the pipe did not allow for a straight though push of the brush. Now hers and ours burn hot and smokelessly.
Just a day in the life here. Not that we are always running around helping everyone, but it is a normal course of how life is lived here. Sometimes you help, other times you get helped.
We saw the wild horses earlier. They were about a mile away. Seems they are finding enough food that they are not at our gate begging anymore. I miss them.
Yesterday, our dog fence was broken. No idea why it happened, but sometime during the night, it happened. Poor Frontier Hubby was walking the fence line looking for breaks yesterday before church. It turned out to be a kink more than a break and it was about as far from the house as possible. Of course.
The dog fence runs along our field fence that goes around the area where we live and store stuff. We have not buried it. That would be simple, but a lot of work! So, we just occasionally wander the line to find the breaks. The most interesting was when the range cattle somehow got caught on the wire strung up along the field fence. It was pulled tight, about 20 feet from the fence was the break. Either they managed to pick up a foot to the top of a 4 foot fence and pull it, or got their head caught in it while looking over our fence. Easy enough to fix by just making the wires touch and taping them together.
The frontier sunset was beautiful tonight.

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