Progress!

Jerry showed up at 7:30 this morning - apparently he really DOES like to paint!  AND he said he'd paint next weekend beginning at noon on Friday when he gets off work, in addition to Saturday and Sunday!  I'm hoping he can get the rest of the barn painted and maybe even get some of the spaces that still need caulked taken care of.  I think he wants to get it done by the time Mark gets home so Mark will be pleased.  ;-D   I don't know about Mark, but it sure will please ME!!

Jerry got another four bales of hay out onto the porch for me for this week but we put it a few feet away from those newly-painted walls.  We also got the tarp put back up to protect the hay in case of rain.  But I'm looking forward to getting sliding barn doors up on that porch in place of that tarp! It's going to look a lot better that way.

See - there's that brown tarp that's going to be removed once that sliding barn door equipment that used to be on the stall doors gets put up out there -- eventually. 

Oh, for the first hour or so when Jerry got here Saturday morning he went to work with a weed eater on our front flower bed.  No matter what we do, grass keeps growing into that space -- even though there's a 12-foot concrete drive right in front of it.  You'd think that would prevent grass from growing over there.  But no . . .

So Jerry just went to work with his weed eater and
cleared out everything except the ferns and the azaleas.

Look how enormous those ferns in front of the porch have become!  One year we put hanging ferns up on the porch.  Then once winter came we took them down and just set them on the ground in front of the porch.  We were too lazy to get them thrown out. 

Well -- as it turned out, they were quite happy down there, even though they weren't ever even planted!  And those 3 or 4 hanging ferns have turned into this!  Note that they have grown so large that they are leaning almost two feet across the steps at this point!  Gees!  I guess we SHOULD dig up the ones by the steps and put them in down on the other end of that garden.  Hmm.  Maybe eventually we'll have nothing better to do and we'll actually get around to that.

Maybe.

Our potential pet sitter, Calyn, will be coming by next Sunday at 2 to bathe and groom Lizzie and Duke.  She said she has volleyball games at 6 on Sundays so apparently she doesn't think it will take all that long!  Hey - works for me.  And with the two of us both dealing with them, it probably won't take all that long.  Well, that'll be nice.  When Mark gets home this time the barn AND the horses will be nice and tidy.  Great!