Day off! . . . yeaaaa!

I was under the impression that I was going to have to work tomorrow but, as it turned out, we WILL be off tomorrow!  Yippee! 

 

And there are going to be a couple of folks coming out to give us estimates for things like gutters, concrete, and "patio covers" (actually, covers for outside the barn above the stall doors, but hey -- close enough).  We want to get the barn fixed up so that the horses do NOT have to run through foot deep mud to get in and out of their stalls!  (And so WE don't have to do that either in order to clean out their stalls!)  We just want to get everything tidied up and very easy to handle so that after we've both retired we won't have to pay horrendous fees to someone to keep things neat. 

The front yard is currently getting updated to allow the horses to go out there and graze.  We used to let Duke and Ladybug go out there, just closing the driveway gate, but then Duke started eating the plants around the house.  NOT good.  So we stopped letting them out there.  That's been a couple years back.  So the fence company came today to begin installing posts for an electric fence across the front of the house to keep the horses away from all the plantings around the house since things like azaleas are poisonous to them.  So now when they get done installing that new fence, we'll be able to lock the driveway gate in front and put the electric wire across the driveway by the house and let the horses go out in front to graze.  We'll love watching them from our front porch!

 

The new fence is beginning at the side of a large double gate in Shadow's paddock and it ends over at the other edge of our property by the canal.



We will have to put two of those hand hooked electric wire handles on the hot wire going across the drive so when the horses aren't out in front, we can just unhook the wire crossing the drive and hang it on one of the posts so we can drive in and out.





The fence is going to make at least another acre accessible to the horses, but the land between that new fence and the house itself is also pretty darned big.  Maybe we can add still MORE interesting plants out there now.  Hmmm.

 



When the land around here floods, there is deep water from the house out to that row of large trees in front.  But beyond the trees where the horses will be allowed to go, the land is higher and will generally remain dry -- much drier than most of the pasture out in back.  A good thing.

 

Okay - time for bed.  The concrete guy will be coming by first thing in the morning so I'll have to get up even though I don't have to work!