Off-farm Income

This morning I was out feeding our bull and goats on the part of our farm nearest the road.  I heard a noise that caused me to turn around and look over towards the road, and I saw a pickup turned sideways on the road, blocking the westbound lane.  The tailgate was sticking up in the air abnormally, and I could tell that they had slid into the ditch on the side of road.  I heard the wheels spin a couple times as the driver attempted to back out, and it was clear that was not going to happen. I hurried and fed the hay that I had in the back of my Ranger and drove out of the driveway and over to the pickup.  There can be a lot of traffic on our road, but luckily it was reduced this morning due it being Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  I pulled up to the pickup and the driver got out.  It was the son of one of our neighbors how lived about a mile down the road. He had been coming around the curve near the front of our place and hit black ice.  His back end came around, and he went straight into our neighbor's past