Helped By A Hair Dryer, and Cash's Ghost

Dear friends,"Get some extension cords and the hair dryer, Cashlyn. We're gonna thaw these dang water pipes."It was 4 degrees. In NC, that's bad-word cold. And she and I were butt-ugly tired from fighting it and sleeping in the barn lounge three nights straight. We'd kept 55 horses inside, dry, fed and watered. Hand watered because the water main that feeds the barn was frozen at the road. On the fourth morning, I'd had it. Exhausted from hauling water from a neighbor's spigot in our old plastic