We made a good decision when we dog a trench to the barn and fed a water line out to the pasture.

Before that, we had to haul buckets out and fill the frost-free waterer by hand. Jay  Bridge came and put an insulated tube around the pump, which pulls water from the pipes five feet below ground.

Once the ground line froze and we had to haul water for most of the winter. But that has only happened once, and we also installed a heated cord to turn on when the temperature falls well below zero.

That doesn’t happen much anymore. The pump is inside the barn to protect it from the winds. In the summer, we attach a hose to the pump and run it right out into the heated water tank. In the winter, we fill buckets and carry them outside to the tank.

I tried creative editing with one of my photo editing programs and I like this impressionistic look of the frost-free pump, and the hay bales int the background.

It gave the photo so much ore feeling.