Thursday, August 9, 2007
We're growing again... more building!
Remember the horse we bought? Well, she has to have shelter, so... we're adding to the stable!
Yesterday, Clyde, our neighbor brought the big tractor over to clear the land for us. He and I worked for nearly 2 hours removing about 32 feet of fence that was buried in a big sand drift and covered with tumbleweed.
Then we began working to remove the sand drift from the east side of the stable... that and a "big pile" of horse manure. Once we got down to grade, Bev got home from work, and we settled in to removing the east wall.
Now picture this...
We have a small stable with a tack room. It's a single (12x16) stall for just Dusty. When we took the wall down... he suddenly had the whole farm, if he wanted. We coaxed him into his corral long enough to get three boards across the wall area.
All afternoon, as we replace boards, and fixed a broken span, he was trying to get into our back pockets, wanting attention. If he wasn't knocking my hat off, he was nudging my boots. What a guy!
I'll get pics up this weekend. Cindy took the camera to work (at a local farm) so she can get pictures of a baby red-tailed hawk before it leaves the nest.
Today, Bev and I have been hand-digging post holes, and no a post-hole-digger is of no use in the sand. We got four done, and got the post set before the wind came up and made it just too miserable. Tonight we'll get more holes dug and posts set, ready to frame in two new corrals.
Goal here is to bring our new filly home this weekend.
Labels: Around the farm, Horses
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