Banning Barbed Wire

Busy day today! This morning before it got hot, I had planned on unloading the alfalfa bales. I walked into the shed, looked at the trailer, looked at the other trailer in the way, and decided I would unload the alfala bales another day! Call me lazy or call me a genious!

I told Mike later today that I'd thought about moving the bales but he said it would have been almost impossible to hook the trailer up with the truck (which is all that I would have had). The truck doesn't turn sharp enough so it's a good thing that I didn't try.

So instead, I headed down to the northeast corner of the property and started pulling up barbed wire. Boy do I HATE bared wire! I thought at first that Iwould start out with holey gloves, thinking that I would trash them anyway. Yeah, umm, don't do that! Start with a brand new pair cuz otherwise you'll get your gloves stuck on the holes and create new holes.

Anyway, I had walked the fence line earlier in the week (and in the heat) and exposed all the wires. They had been buried under the grass. I had hoped to get this fencing done before the hot season and tick season hit but I guess that didn't happen. This time I only had to pick off two ticks instead of a dozen.

I was able to get all the barbed wire cut and tossed in a pile. I have all the wire gone from the northeast fence post panel to the poop pile, which is about half of the distance I needed to go. I guess I have a bunch more to do but at least the other half should be a tad easier. I walked that fence line last year and pulled up a bunch so hopefully it won't take as long.

It only took me an hour to expose the wires and another hour to pull the fence doen and away. I'm hoping I can have that good of luck at the next go round.

And we are getting a new member tomorrow between 10am and 11am. Sunlight Siouxdana will be joining us. I'll have to blog a bit more about her and add what her previous owners know about her. I just got off the phone with the owner to make arrangements. She's planning on hauling her out so I don't have to and maybe getting me a 12pack of wormer! That would be awesome, although it doesn't cover the cost of her cair but I'll take it. I was going to have to figure out the next round of wormer and get it ordered. I do still have to give her west nile so that's a bummer. I absolutely require her to have it since there are so many mosquites.

So I guess i'm now going to be the proud owner of a Standardbred. Never owned one of those before. So the herd will now consist of:

4 quarter horses
2 appaloosas
1 paint
1 arabian
1 shetland
1 mini
1 percheron
1 belgian
1 standardbred

I'll get pics tomorrow of the new girl and give everyone a rundown.

I also need to frantically get the fencing done. Mom and dad said Queen is tearing up the trees, rubbing up against them. So I need to go like a madman and get as much fencing done as I can, weather permitting. I'm hoping I can get more done before it heats up or while this next cool spell lasts.

We are supposed to get a serious storm tonight that will bring in a cold front. I'm hoping it'll bring in cooler weather so I can tackle the fencing and get at least the east side done in a hurry. I can rig up the other fencing until we can get to it. I'm pretty ingenious (but still can't spell!)

I better go pull the ponies out of the lawn pasture before the demolish the little trees. Darn ponies!