My mind is flying after one very peaceful night in my new accommodations of the guest house ====it was wonderful and one thing permanently in my mind was how necessary people are who can figure out what to do when the churn paddle sticks
That expression probably needs explanation for all you young folk but it used to be if you wanted some butter on your toast you first went out and milked the cow let it sit for a while so the cream came to the top take the cream off and put it in a butter churn where you slapped it around for a while and separated the butter from some very diluted looking skim milk and then put it on your toast------ but there were times when that butter churn wouldn't churn.... And you either had to fix it yourself or locate the nearest person with the capability of churn paddle fixing...
I am delighted to say with this move of all my belongings across the driveway that goldys acres is now inhabited or at least associated with a fine group of churn paddle fixers..
here I am in my new abode with an impossibly heavy desk... and even heavier cast iron full-sized cooking stove.. an odd thing or two that I just couldn't possibly live without like 3 great Danes and a cash register that has to weigh 2 or 300 pounds,, however this crew which has been amassed by Janine and her equine rescue network is an exceptionally fine group of people. Wallace. the ex bull rider now horse trainer put together someone to help him help us.... I always love watching people work as you all know and I watched these two people Wallace and friend figure out how to take the cast iron stove apart and how to put it back together again.... Flawlessly I might add... Then after they had finished up and gone off down the driveway I found that Wallace's helper was indeed his father---who was the guy I've been waving at so many mornings as I go over to help feed animals at the Meredith farm. apparently "father Wallace". is the Super duper Stonewall builder responsible for the absolutely gorgeous stone walls at Meredith farm. well he gets my approval too with his cast iron stove puzzle.
Also have to admit that Elizabeth who is obviously slightly nutty, Is also extremely efficient and on top of that she had the good judgment to pick a husband who is exceedingly clever on impossible puzzles also from my chair to the Internet to assembling a broken futon..
So if I was running a college here let's call it goldys College of Hard Knocks( whose colors are black and blue). I would award the degree of. ,,, CPF,.... For them to put after their names to identify them as legitimate churn paddle fixers.
Now to enlighten you further and I don't know this for an absolute fact but they are all foreign born/educated. and at least one of them told me he could not vote because he was a green card.... darn !!
To continue that concept=== Janine just got back from South Carolina where she had taken a lot of furniture to put in her new house in Aiken... and she got all the way down to a huge dresser when she met her new neighbours.. she has not developed a system of Wallace types down in Aiken yet... but her assessment of neighbors is what can they lift and are they willing.... she said these two neighbors the husband was huge and strong and the wife weighed about 100 pounds and she was worried about that except the woman apparently has a horse and can easily lift 45 pound Bale of hay so she is absolutely thrilled with her neighbors who helped her move furniture in
