Busy weekends

Thanks to our interfaith couples group for coming to the hymn sing at my church last night!  It ment a lot to me that you all came, I hope you enjoyed it.  I get very stressed before playing, it made it much more fun that you were all there.  We got a lot done on the barn this weekend.  The pony is in the stall, though I still want to knock that front out and put a panel gate up instead of the chain link one.  That will have to wait till we get paid.  I think we are going to call her Lady.  I am tempted to make it Lady Amalthea from the Last Unicorn since she is white enough to play dressup with if we can get her better without going broke.  Say a little prayer for the poor think if you will.

Barn fixing ideas

The more I think about it, the more ideas I have about how we could fix up that old barn.  Right now the important thing is to fix that stall so we can put the poor pony in it, and Durfy thinks we should just knock out that whole front wall and use a pasture gate to cover the whole front of it, that would probably be easier than trying to cut a window.  But that stall really is big enough for two, maybe someday we can fix it into two stalls, and the other side used to be a chicken house, you can see where the old wire used to be.  If we clean it out, we have the wire we could staple up, and then Bob wouldn’t be crowing so close to the house, we could maybe even incorporate their old kennel into the design and they could have an indoor/outdoor run.  I haven’t been in the indoor section in awhile.  How bad is the floor and roof?  Could we clean it up and move tack and feed out there?  If we actually had a stall for all 3 horses, it would be easy enough to feed them out there, and much nicer for them on rainy days.  That would free up our storage shed.  Could we eventually run electricity out there?  These are kinda high hopes for the rickety old thing, and of course we couldn’t do it all this weekend, but maybe these are some things we can work on if we can get some friends with tools to hang out with us. 

Barn demolition party

Ok, some of you may have heard about the injured pony we “took in”, yes I know our hearts are way bigger than our heads and I don’t want to go into too many details about that at the moment, but we need a place to keep her so she’s not standing in my back yard.  The one side of our barn is the run in shed which is perfectly functional for the pasture horses.  On the other side is that dark room with the little door which could easily be made into a stall if I can get a little help, maybe a party Saturday afternoon?.  Whats left of the rotted floor needs to be pulled out, and I would like to take a hammer and knock some of the boards off the front wall so she has a little window to stick her head out of.  I think the door is wide enough for her and we can put a stall guard up as a gate.  Then we can pile up the wood and have a bonfire.  Who’s up for it?  Thanks!