A Small Egg, a Porcupine and a Busy Spring
Well Pump At the end of March my well pump stopped working. After doing a lot of research and watching many fix-it videos I decided to tackle the job of putting in a new pump myself. I have a shallow well so the jet pump is in my basement. Five days without water and four trips to town to get parts at Canadian Tire and my water system is working again. Since we were having fresh snow almost daily I was melting snow for my interim water source. It was quite a time consuming process because a pail full of snow equals very little water but the water was very clean. On the last day I filled some jars of drinking water at my neighbour. I learned a lot about plumbing and feel more confident when the time comes to tackle the next job. New Chickens Four new chickens have been added to the flock to replace those that are no longer there. I did not get many eggs over winter, perhaps because it was a tough winter weather wise - although the little improvements I made to the henhouse ke...
