I'm alone with our animals and birds for two weeks already...

On Wednesday my husband Alex will be at home. The operation was successful and he feels good. What can not be said about me ... I'm terribly tired! At first I was full of optimism. In the first week I managed not only to take care of animals, but also to be a little creative. But gradually fatigue began to accumulate ...

The biggest problem is the wood boiler. I have to watch it around the clock and this is very tiring. The fact is that this year we could not fill the pipes with non-freezing liquid. It turned out to be very expensive, more than 1000 dollars. We decided to postpone this purchase for a year, now we can not afford it. According to the instructions, the boiler must keep warm for 12 hours if it is filled with firewood to the very top. But there is a catch. If one log accidentally gets stuck, and this can happen because as the logs burn, they fall randomly, the boiler will go out. And then the pipes will freeze and may crack.

When there were two of us, everything was easier. We were on duty in turns. But now I'm alone night and day. I have to sleep in fragments ... It kills my energy, I can not rest normally.

When I wake up in the morning (I fall asleep at 2 am and wake up at 5 am), I immediately run to check the boiler. Then I take the water for the birds that are in street enclosures, because the water freezes quickly, and they want to drink. Then I have to chop up enough wood to last the whole day and night.

Then I feed the birds and squirrels. By this time the dogs are already following me and demanding their food. I feed them and only then I have a minute to drink a cup of tea and eat something. Then for the second time I give the birds warm water. By this moment I already feel as if the tank has moved me.

If it snows, I must still have time to clean the upper nets on the cages, otherwise the snow may tear them off, and I must also clean the snow near the entrances to the cages so that they do not freeze and are not blocked.

This is the usual daily plan. It seems to be a bit, but it takes a lot of time and requires a lot of energy. I hope that I can stand two more days ...