Today I woke up to a beautiful sunshiney day. And it was warmish too! Woohoo! The prisoners were happy too because they like to work outside but not when its freezing. Of course they were happy after they finshing working too b/c the ladies made them fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing and green beans-man they were HAPPY. But they earn it. They do all the work the town can't afford to pay anyone to do or find volunteers young & healthy enough that could do the work. And those boys work hard-they get more done in 4 hours than most people get done in a day. But they are oh so funny sometimes. Many of them are from Chicago and have never been to the country before. Some have actually never seen a live cow before.
In August, they were here one day to clean up the weeds along the road up to the cemetary. There is one house on the hill and we had to ask them to lock up their chickens b/c some of the prisoners were afraid of them after they got chased by the rooster! Hehe. You'd think they wouldn't let them run free after the fox got all their birds last year-ah the blessed quiet once they were gone! The fox didn't stick around this season after the flood water came and with it about 1000 people a day building a sandbag wall, then tearing it down once the flood was over.
Of course that meant we had more cats survive the summer probably to die this winter if its as cold as the woolyworms predict. I must say I did miss the sight of the lone stray dog (part beagle) chasing the fox around when it was foolish enough to come out during the day. You'd think that stupid dog would be able to catch that fox or at least tree it but no-deedeedee.
But now the prisoners have left for the day so now the mayor (my husband Jim) & I can go collect some firewood so we can have a nice fire on cool evenings like tonight will be. It's so great to live in the country sometimes.
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