Thursday Already?

The week is flying by - got four posts in the holes last night and the remaining three were covered up with plastic wrap, rocks and fence posts. It was raining before I brought the horses in for the night.

Sprite was so frantic to go in that she stepped into, but didn't knock over, her water bucket, banging into the gate, too. It doesn't take horses but a couple times before they learn something - right or wrong. She literally drug me into the barn, instead of me dragging her.

This weekend, for sure, we will finish the dry paddock installation. It will make life so much better for me and the horses. I think the first week or less we need to have the big boys out in the dry paddock during the day to knock down the grass that is still there. Tom has not mowed any of it and it does look good, for being mostly weeds. We'll reconfigure the electric fence to enclose the run-in shed and make it possible for Lil Fred and Sprite to share that and get out a little, too.

Earlier in the week, Tom was concerned about the noise of shooting the nails into the fence boards would make, and disturb our only neighbor. Last night, he comes out to blow leaves off his drive way and yard! I guess that answers that question! Blam away! Blam, blam, blam.

The dry paddock is as big as some suburban back yards, ample room for minis. They are so small, they don't even bend the grass and their little mouths couldn't possibly consume all that greenery. I feed Lil Fred a cup - measuring cup, not coffee cup - of 'Lite' grain and it takes him FOREVER to munch that down. Fluffs could stuff that in his mouth in one bite!

Rain today, continuing on until around midnight - ugh. The little ones are in the barn for the day, the big boys are out, with access to the run-in. I hope that Skip allows KC to at least stick his head in. Not terribly cold, but not a day any of us would want to be out in.

Speaking of that: This weekend is the BIG EVENT at the League, the Fall Round-up officially starts tomorrow at noon, but lots of folks, with their horses, are there already. We have attended this event in the past and it is truly a sight to behold. Awesome. The amount of truck and trailers and horses is astounding, really. If you aren't familiar with it, you would think I was a liar. Some couldn't/wouldn't be convinced that such a place exists so close to suburbia and a big city, but it does. A true gem in a sea of development. But its raining today, and that is not fun for campers or for horses tied to a high-line, standing in the rain. I know KC HATES it.