Hmmm - let's rethink this . . .

I've been letting Lizzie graze in the front yard with Bug after I get home each night.  And she's been pretty good - amazingly enough.  Lizzie is not the brightest bulb -- she often manages to get herself into trouble for no apparent reason, but she's been really well-behaved ever since she's been over here at home.  But I don't know what came over her today - maybe it was because Mark came home yesterday and his car was parked in front where it hadn't been before.  I don't know.  But just a few minutes after I turned her out this evening, I looked out and . . . what?  

There she was -- standing in the flower bed by the front porch.  It's not like she was trying to eat the ground cover or anything.  She was just STANDING there like she was waiting on something.  Or maybe it was just nice and shady there, I don't know.

Mark walked out and sat down to watch her, but she started looking then like she was seriously considering coming up onto the porch to visit with him!  So I hurried down and led her back over to her own paddock.  Hate to do it - she really likes to be with Bug - but I'm going to have to keep her in the back with Duke, I guess, until we get a fence up to separate the front yard from the house and flower beds - whenever that is.  Maybe next spring, I don't know.  Maybe.

But first things first.  Mark and Jerry are going to go over and take down that temporary shelter we put up over at Al's (on the right in the photo below) and bring that home tomorrow.  

Then Saturday Mark is going to install all the doors on the barn so the horses can't walk into the tack/feed spaces!  That'll be a big relief.  After that, I think he's planning to finish closing in the front porch/tack room completely.  It was originally framed in only at the bottom because we were going to just screen in the top half of the walls.  But now that it's going to be a tack room it's got to be completely enclosed the rest of the way up.  Actually, I'll be  happy once he gets the siding up just on the outside for now so that it will at least LOOK secure and will keep the horses out.  But until we get electricity out there, there's no need to worry about finishing up the interior.   

Not sure what comes after that.  Not going to worry about it right now.  Just doors on the barn and I'll be happy.  That's all that matters at the moment.