Didn't get off early enough today to get home before it began to get dark, but here was the view as I drove down the road in front toward the driveway. Nice new metal roof on the barn now. The place sure looks desolate with all the leaves gone from the trees and the grass all dead, though. Could almost be Ohio, except for the baby Oak tree next to the barn.
In this picture, the little cottage in back (just to the right of the house) looks like it's right outside, but it's actually pretty far away. The barn is probably a bit further from the house than it appears, too. Must be something to do with the focal length of the camera lens. Whatever. We're going to have a nice collection of cute little blue buildings when the barn is all sided and painted, aren't we?
And speaking of paint, the brick on the far side of the house, and on the back part that's not screened still needs to be painted blue, so if there's money left once the barn is done, maybe we'll get Marco to come back and paint all that along with the barn. Do you remember that awful orange brick that was combined with the blue siding when we bought the house? When we screened the back porch, Marco painted the brick inside that porch area pale cream, and the little bit of brick that showed on the side of the front porch after we wrapped the porch all the way around blue. Since then, at least most of what you can see from the road matches the siding. But we've still got that awful orange stuff on the back and side that needs painted.
But back to the barn. It IS cute, isn't it?
They aren't done with the roofing yet, obviously. The edges aren't fastened down and the fascia and side trim haven't been applied yet. But someone other than just me can begin to see what it's going to look like eventually at this point anyway!
Below is what it will look like as you approach it from the house -- nice open porch with the screen door into the front screened porch on the right. Horse fence with a gate into the paddock will extend out from the barn next to that post on the left.
Okay -- enough about the barn. (Do I hear multiple sighs of relief?)
Last night we took the new feed shelf thing over to Al's. 
It holds even more containers than I thought it would. Enough containers fit on each shelf to last one horse for two weeks.
Those containers don't look large enough to feed a horse, do they? The soaked beet pulp that gets mixed in increases the volume significantly, but still . . .
I guess I should be grateful that all three of our horses are such easy keepers. We were told when we got them that two of them REALLY needed to take off weight so those two not only get small portions, but are on Lite Balance horse feed (diet horse feed, can you believe it??). And the other is on a special low starch feed since it's possible that she may be insulin resistant (we won't know for sure until spring - long story). Anyway, all the dry feed they need fits into those small containers. And as I mentioned, two weeks worth of them (30) fit on a single shelf. That's a huge improvement over trying to find room for them on top of multiple feed barrels anyway!
Well, time to go downstairs and start packing. I'm going to go in to work for half a day tomorrow so I won't have time to pack between the time I leave work and the time we need to leave for the airport.
On the plus side, at least I will be posting photos of something other than the barn this weekend!
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