I got hold of Blaze early this week and on Wednesday night he came over to deliver all the wood and supplies for adding on the barn back porch roof.
When I talked to him I asked him about doing four different things and told him he could decide what he wanted to do (if anything, I hoped!) Well, he said he would handle ALL of the things I wanted done! Wow! And he got started on adding that back porch to the barn immediately. He delivered the supplies Wednesday and began putting concrete on the posts on Thursday so they would be dry enough for them to work on the porch over the weekend. Then he finished up the posts and added the panels joining them on Friday.
And today he's adding the roof. Those red boards holding up the posts until the concrete gets dry will be removed late today. If he doesn't get entirely finished by tonight, he'll be back on Monday. But once those extra boards are removed, the horses will be able to come back into their stalls tomorrow morning! (I was afraid they would push against those support boards and make the posts no longer straight!)
Mark got Jerry to come move that hay hut out of Arthur's paddock
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| Here they are before that porch addition began with that hayhut over there in Arthur's paddock (with no hay in it -- they ate the hay on the porch on that far side lately). |
Jerry moved that hay hut out into the round pen and filled it with hay.
Then when Blaze got started we put the horses OUT of their paddocks and put water buckets into the round pen along with the hay in that hay hut. They're also being fed on the round pen fence instead of in their stalls until that porch gets completed.
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| Arthur and Shadow get chained to the fence while they eat so they can't eat each other's food. Duke gets fed OUTSIDE the round pen -- he would definately go eat everyone else's food! |
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| While they eat, Mark is there talking with Blaze's son while Blaze is there on the ladder adding to ceiling boards. |
Then he's going to add a gutter across the back and along Duke's side of the barn getting all the water running off the roof to go into that raised flower bed around the front of the barn. (I drew that dark aqua line in the photo below to show the gutter, and those red squares are where the upcoming concrete is going to go. Nice!
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That smaller square area under the porch will be flat, but that large area outside the porch will tilt toward that front fence so that the rain falling on that concrete will go out of the paddock and NOT down into that (currently) muddy area. Arthur will be happy -- he LOVES rolling around in that sand in there when it's dry!
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| Another view of the upcoming cemented area. The hay container and the water buckets will get to go back over to that side once that concrete is poured. I love that because then I can see the horses from the house. (Where the hay is now, on the other side of the barn, I can't see them without going outside!) |
Then once everything is done there at the barn Blaze will be adding those louvers to the front porch of our house. And once THAT is done, he's going to come inside and extend the wall of our utility room a few feet out into the garage (the garage is plenty large enough for that), and he will be moving the door going from the utility room into the half bath over about 6 or 8 inches, too, because the washing machine currently sticks out about 3 to 5 inches in front of it! And once that room has been enlarged, we'll be able to keep our giant upright freezer that we have in the garage inside the utility room. Now that'll be SO much better!
He's also going to remove all that plastic siding that's on the walls inside the garage and put up plywood. That way Mark can hang up all kinds of things on the walls out there that can't be done on that silly siding.
I'll tell you what - Blaze is doing such a good job. He may continually have something to do around this place for the rest of his life!!!
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