Things have been busy on the farm. Then again, when are things not busy here? Probably in January. We've been running around harvesting vegetables, delivering vegetables, planting vegetables, weeding vegetables, and eating vegetables. To break things up I went to a u-pick strawberry patch yesterday. :)
One morning this week I woke up to a crazy loud snapping sound. I live right next to the horse pasture that has an electric fence that usually makes a mild clicking noise. You can only hear it if you listen specifically for it. However, this morning it was a insistant snap. Being the farm novice that I am, I had no clue what it was or why such a loud sound was occuring.
My curiosity was quelled at breakfast when Farmer Dan announced that the electric fence had been grounded out sometime during the night. He was expecting to find a downed branch. Instead he found the fried remains of a tree frog! No kidding, a tree frog had grounded out our fence! It was perched on one of the iron poles and had reached out to the electric line. That is how he met his untimely end. Farmer Dan said he was burnt to a crisp. I laughed and laughed. Ah life on the farm. It's great!
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