Our helpers couldn’t come yesterday so there was a change in plans. We got “Birdie” set up and cleaned out the ladybugs and stink bugs. Mr. FixIt gave her a bath. And I headed to the farm for a couple of days. It had been a while since I got to visit and I was in need of a farm fix. 

The weather was stellar yesterday! I sat on the front porch and knitted in the sunshine. It was 71° and delightful. Along about 4:00, a lead car for a wide load pulled up out front. You never know what you might see out these old country roads, so I opened the camera on my phone and prepared to take a video of whatever lumbered by. 

Soon, here came half a house on its way to become someone’s home in the country. Over the years, the phone line that crosses the road has begun to sag lower and lower. The trailer slowed way down then inched forward. Suddenly, the top of the house snagged the phone line and he hit the gas!

I started yelling and telling him to stop and back up. The truck behind him was honking. The guy in front of him was waving his arms. He stopped, but not before he stretched the heck out that wire. The guy in the lead car got an extension ladder out and two guys extended it and lifted the line so the house could glide under it.

Once all the commotion died down, I went back to the porch and picked up my knitting. I was looking at that line and thought it looked lower. I pulled up an earlier photo and compared them and indeed…it was MUCH lower. I tried to call the phone company but they were closed. 

I had been having a little trouble with the water pump earlier so I was on the phone with my cousin who lives down the road. All of a sudden, a fully loaded logging truck came barreling down the road, caught that line, and ripped through it like butter! So, that was that. The water wasn’t running, and now the phone was out. And without the phone, I had no internet. And without the internet, I had no cell service. And without the cell service, Mr. FixIt couldn’t reach me and wouldn’t know what happened.

I packed up my stuff and came back home. Not at all the relaxing day I was hoping for, but like Beans said…it was a good thing I was there or we would never have known what happened. I was in the right place at the right time again, it seems.

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“When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.”

Proverbs 16:7 ESV

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