Weekend Wrap-Up

Weekends are anticipated, and then gone in a blur. From Friday evening to Monday morning is like a blink of an eye.

On Friday, everybody was in. It rained, off and on, all day. Drove home in the driving rain. Everybody was glad to be in, too. There were seven 'ponds' in the dry paddock and the pasture had standing water. O boy.

The farrier was out on Thursday, but didn't get a minute to ride all weekend. One of these days I'll have my life back!

Saturday, got up early, turned everybody out. Three 'ponds' in the dry paddock, a drying trend! Drove to Gettysburg to pick up ten dining room chairs. Stopped off at Tractor Supply to get extra-strength weed killer, "Pramitol 25E." This herbicide is for the parking lot, which is really turning green. Stronger than Triox, worth the money (I hope). 'Safe' for farm animals, but not for well water heads. On to Southern States Cooperative to get feed for everybody with hooves.

Hurried back to the farm, but now it is almost noon. While I was gone, Tom set some of the loose tiles in the hallway and kitchen with grout. These tiles will eventually be sent to the dump, but in the meantime they clunk and rattle when you walk on them. Unfortunately the installation was done poorly, over existing tile or wood and never was set correctly. Most all are broken, chipped, cracked or in some way compromised.

Unloaded the feed and set off to our old house. Finally the craigslist listing is up; renting the house was on my short list of New Year's resolutions. We filled up the truck with 'stuff' that has been lying around the house. Tackled some of the yard work, bushes and ivy. Our neighbor was mowing his grass.

Back over on Sunday, repeat all of the above, painted the closet interiors, washed the deck, took out more trash, made a dump run with the car because trucks aren't allowed on Sundays. It is looking great and potential renters stopped in for a walk-thru.

I need some serious time to catch up on everything that I didn't get around to doing. Today the temps are in the high 80's.