Friday's Horses - Pete & Maddie are back out on grass and Around The Farm.
"Bookends"
Mates.
Pete likes to graze.
"The grass is supposed to be greener on the other side,
blah blah — heck, this looks pretty good right here."
"Ahh — what have we over there . . ."
The Kids have been out in their two--acre pasture.
Yesterday they were introduced to the five-acre section.
Laurie led Maddie. Pete came on his own.
He was first through the gate.
She was close behind.
This was working well.
After three pleasurable hours Laurie got her horses in.
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Around The Farm ~
Laurie did some painting on the outside of the barn.
She painted both "eyebrow dormers", starting with this one
on the south side.
The other dormer came later.
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She applied paint to this gable end.
The other gable end, where the tractor enters, will be the last place she paints.
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Inside the barn Laurie continues to make improvements.
She installed a "rat run" (the first of three), a 2 X 4 brace
placed between two trusses for stabilization.
To do so she wedged one end of the brace in the truss
(two ladder steps below her boots and to the right)
climbed down, tied a horse's lead line to the other end
of the brace (five ladder steps down, just to the right)
and pulled it up to attach to this truss.
Laurie climbed back up to the first truss, "un-wedged" the brace
and screwed it in.
Mom and mare.
Beyond the barn Shadow explored a waterline ditch.
She retrieved her Jolly Ball and eagerly ran it back to dad.
Later on, I finished up what Laurie had begun.
And of a springtime day, grasses bent to the breeze.
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Once we wake up, that is.
