Ya Hoooo ! Winter Holidays begins (for me) (kinda)

No more getting up at 5:30 for meeeeee!!!  Hubby is finished working for the winter.  I just have another week of putting out the horses and then Heather is finished and all my mornings are mine, mine, mine…Hello coffee, hello chair hahaha

I am planning on dragging Vern with me next week.  He has been helping bring the horses in at supper.  He is such a hard worker, throwing down hay, putting out the big round bales in the fields, dragging away the manure.  Vern and Ed, a friend from work and Heather have done all the renovations of the barn, building all the stalls, lockers, new floor in the loft.  He always has such a long list of things he wants to do and never enough time.

The first stalls with temporary doors for Lincoln and Willy.
Heather and Vern installed the big overhead beams and supported the overhead hayloft with six 4x4s in every stall.  Heather built the template for all the sliding doors.



Ten stalls complete and filled. Four more to go, well, maybe two.  Two unfinished stalls are being used for shavings and storage.

This is what we started with !

My morning smile today was watching the mares trot along in icy sand ring.  Normally they rip around at a gallup, bucking and running with each other when they get in their field.  The icy sand has them trotting very carefully.  I can see the deliberate foot placement and the concentration.  They are still very excited to be turned out but taking it careful. Made me smile

YA HOO