To what lengths?

Okay, how far would you go to take care of your charges?  I've just been out in the freezing rain (or sleet- how do you tell the difference, both are supposed to be falling?) to replace the heating element in the livestock waterer and attach a new heat wire to keep the pipe from freezing like it did the last time we had extreme weather.  Not only did the yahoos that installed the unit put the electric receptacle in backward, necessitating reaching into the bowels of the tank and, by feel, try to plug things in, but they also put it in upside down I finally discovered.  At one point I gave up and came in to defrost my fingers so I could feel the plug and to get a mirror to try to see it.  (The mirror didn't work -- too dark.  And, yes, I turned off the electricity before sticking my fingers in the plug :).

I had noticed this morning that, once again, some animal had frightened the goats out of the barn during the night and they were all hunkered down out in the field with Captain keeping watch.  With this weather, they just must stay in the barn.  I checked all around and saw where the animal (thinking now it is probably a fox) was coming in under a corral panel.  I had no way to block this area tonight, so I did the only thing I could think of -- dropped my drawers right there, and peed the best I could in a line below the panel.  It's cold, I'm laughing, thinking, "man, am I going over the edge here?" (By the way, men have it a lot easier, let me tell you.)  You know I love my goats.