Freezing Florida

 We are in a cold snap.  It went from the 70's to the 30's.  I arrived home and found a yard project awaiting me.  We had a leaking pipe.  I had to change and take over the digging.  I got to the pipe, but I could not see where the leak was.  We had to turn it back on.  I found it was not where I was digging.  I had to expand the hole to expose more pipe.  Then we found it.  A fracture in the pipe.  We could have called a plumber, but I did not want to spend the money.  The wind was getting colder, and we were losing light.  I did manage to cut out the bad section and put on couplings.  I need to join the couplings to the new pipe.  At this point, we had no light, and it was cold.  We had to do without water for the night.  The next day, I went out in the freezing air to enlarge the hole.  At this point, I could join the couplings to the pipe.  We turned on the water, and no leaking.  My guess is that it would have cost $500 or more to have a plumber fix it.  I was looking at the next week, and we are going to be cold.  I hope the chickens can make it.