Yikes!

Got a bid on various concrete processes we need to get done, but gees! . . .  the cost turned out to be about 3 times what we expected it to be.  MANY thousands of dollars.  Okay, back to basics.  What do we HAVE to have done ? ? ?  We need to think about that for a little while. 

In the meantime, I've been painting all the trim in the kitchen that needed done.  But we have discovered that the countertop people who installed that granite put in a shim to level the counter above one of the drawers instead of directly over an upright panel.  So now that counter that is SO heavy is pushing down the top board on that cabinet to the point where the drawer there is almost un-openable!   Mark thinks he can put a shim in above the side of that cabinet to prevent the top board from pushing down so badly.  Well -- we'll see, I guess.  But if that doesn't work, I guess I'll have to have them come back and deal with it.  They won't be happy, but this IS their fault.  Sigh.

Jerry and Mark got that electric fence dividing the pasture completed yesterday. 

You can't really see it, but there are two rows of electric rope on there.

The horses were restricted to the space on the right side of the pasture AWAY from the storage shed.  When Mark gets back home again in a week, he planned to start clearing out that building.  Once all the junk had been pitched, then we could get someone to replace the roof.  It's been messed up ever since the hurricane the year before last.  Gees -- there's always SOMETHING, isn't there???

But this morning when I got up, I looked out and . . . what the heck? . . . Duke was still over there in the right hand area of the pasture as he had been last night -- but Lizzie and Arthur were over by the storage shed in the OTHER section!  Got out the binoculars and looked out and found that the electrical rope had been "removed" up near the barn.  I'm willing to bet that Lizzie did that, given her continual knock down of that NON-electric rope in the front yard.  I'm thinking she probably just ran up against it not realizing it was electric and before she got shocked for long it had broken so it probably stopped shocking her almost immediately.  That's my guess.  Mark is apparently going to need to add another row of HEAVY rope on there, but I doubt that he can deal with it before he goes back to work tomorrow.  Oh - and Arthur went with Lizzie over to the other half of the pasture.  But Duke (who was fenced in with a SINGLE electrical wire at the place where we bought him) was still quietly standing over there where we put them all yesterday.  Good, good boy!