Husband Gets Lost during Heavy Snow, 74-Year-Old Wife Goes to Search for Him — Story of the Day
John’s wife gets worried when he goes out to the barn during the worst blizzard of the century and decides to go and rescue him despite the danger.
Jenny Sennite was seventy-four years old and she wasn’t enjoying retirement as much as she’d imagined. In fact, she hated it. She had tried to talk her husband John into buying a condo in Florida so they could soak up the sunshine, but John had other ideas.
His grandparents had been farmers in Montana and he had fond memories of the summers he’d spent with them. So John got them a little ranch with a pretty red barn and a handful of sheep and moved them to Montana. But John had never spent winters in Montana…
Jenny started getting worried when John didn’t come back from the barn | Source: Shutterstock..com
Spring was gorgeous, and summer was glorious, but as soon as autumn nipped the air, Jenny knew things weren’t going to be as picture-book-perfect as John had imagined.
For one, animal farming was actually a lot of work. True, they only had five sheep, three goats, a handful of chickens, and one pig, but they all had to be fed and cared for and it was a 24/7 job.
John had wanted nanny goats for the milk — “We’re going to make our own cheese!” he’d exclaimed excitedly, but milking meant they had to get up before sun-up and it had to be done all over again at sundown.
The sheep had had lambs, but three of the tiny creatures had to be bottle-fed. More work! Oh, the farm fresh eggs were lovely, but someone had to go into the barn and get them from under the bad-tempered red hens!
John had spent his summers in his grandparents’ farm in Montana | Source: Pixabay
Nope, farm life wasn’t at all what John had told Jenny it would be. It was hard, repetitive work, and it was a lonely and boring life. So for entertainment, Jenny started watching every nature documentary she could get her hands on.
John was irritated. He told Jenny she had become addicted to the TV and wasn’t interested in anything else. Jenny was tired of sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens, and the weather — which was all John talked about, and she said so.
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