Well - at least there won't be any horrible fires starting next door anyway . . .

Those trees that were taken down in the pasture a couple weeks back were piled up over in Vickie and John's property next door, but we hadn't burned them at all to date because there had been no rain in about the last month so we were afraid that if we set those on fire, the entire acreage full of trees over there might ALL go up on fire and even burn over into the houses nearby!  But I'll tell you what -- despite the fact that Hurricane Patricia that's moving east from Mexico hasn't hit Louisiana yet, still over the last two days there has currently been PLENTY of rain here!  

It's storming so much that not only the pond has filled up, but so much of the pasture itself is coveredwith water as well!  Well -- it's good that the horses are closed into their paddocks because tramping around out there would be killing the grass big time.  Gees!

But fortunately, this Saturday morning Mark and Jerry put up four new pasture gates and repaired a number of the other former gates as well.  That was done so that we could close Arthur inside his porch so he couldn't get out into the rain at all.  But as it turned out, even with his porch gate open, he isn't going out into the rain since both Duke and Shadow have been staying there on their porch right next to him, so he's happy to stay there on the porch out of the rain right near them.  So I didn't lock the gate that closes him into his porch.

There are Shadow and Duke, both in Duke's paddock, and behind Shadow
on the other side of that gate is Arthur on his porch while it's pouring down rain.  

Unfortunately, though, we're still going to have to remove Arthur's boots anyway once the rain stops (if it ever does!!) and clean them up.  That's because, although Arthur doesn't stand out in the rain and get them filling up with water (which is what I was concerned about), he has gone out there when the rain stops briefly so he could poop out in his yard and not in his room or on his porch.  I'd be proud of that normally, but unfortunately, when he does go out into his yard, he walks in so much mud that those boots are absolutely covered with the stuff!  Yuk!  So even though he doesn't get rained on directly, his feet may no longer be nice and clean and dry. We'll have to check, but even if there's no water inside them, we'll still need to clean them up and get all that mud off the outside.  Well, we're going to wait to do that until this storms stops -- if it ever does!  Sure hope Hurricane Patricia doesn't come through here in a day or two.  But I think it won't -- I think it will be moving up NORTH-east and going north of Baton Rouge.  Hmmm . . . we'll find out, that's for sure. (Fingers crossed.)