Progress, progress, progress . . .

I finally got around to taking some pictures of the things that have gotten done outside this week.  Of course by the time I thought to do that it was pitch dark, but hey . . .  here they are. 

For starters, the stalls are all lined with that heavy duty vinyl stuff AT LAST!  That, combined with the white paint on the top half of the barn, and the individual stall lights, well . . . you can see to do about anything in those stalls now! 



This is Duke's stall -- his open door is outside the picture on the left. 
(Eventually there will be boards across the top of the vinyl
but for now the glue shows in a lot of places up there.)



That boarded-up north-facing door in the picture above was closed up before the hurricane last month and has stayed that way since Duke seems to really like having only a single door in there. 

Lizzie hangs out inside her stall ALL the time unless she's allowed out into the front yard. 
For some reason she isn't the slightest bit interested in the grass inside her paddock.

The view into Lizzie's stall from outside the barn.   

Look how bright that light in Lizzie's stall is -- it's a 150 watt fluorescent bulb (the thing is probably about a  foot high!) . . . equal to about a 350 watt regular bulb, if I remember correctly.  We put that up there so the vet could see well enough while stitching up her cut, and we haven't bothered to remove it.  In the other stalls, I just have 100 watt YELLOW bulbs so the flies and mosquitoes aren't attracted in there.  I leave one of those on at night but never Lizzie's!  Every fly and mosquito in town comes in there if I leave THAT light on!

And then Sunday David glued those non-slip things onto the ramp up to the porch where I slid and fell backwards a week or two back.  Thank goodness THAT won't happen again!   Of course it wouldn't happen again anyway at the moment.  When I fell it was a frosty morning.  This week the temp is 80-ish in the day and almost 60 at night!  But if it ever does get cold again - hey, we're ready!

We plan to put a hand rail on there, too -- as soon as we figure out how we want to do that.

Every time something happens, we fix it so it won't happen again.  Now if we could just figure out what's GOING to happen and get it fixed FIRST . . .

Sigh.