Runin

We had a productive weekend. We didn’t have a lot of horse time Saturday as we enjoyed some family quality time for the majority of the day. I can honestly admit that I am rather spoiled. I am exactly 30 minutes from my parents and 45 minutes from my sister. We rely heavily on family to help with Borderlands. We wouldn’t be able to do it without them.

And speaking of my parents, they came Sunday to help work on the runin shed we started building last fall (that inevitably blew down…sigh). We had a huge learning curve that first go round but we were farther along yesterday than we were that first day.

I was very worried when we woke up Sunday morning that we wouldn’t be able to work on the runin shed because of the wind. We had gusts over 30 mph. How in the world could we possibly work on building anything and not having it blown down. Luckily were we strategically placed the runin, is in a small hollow, just north of where the water runs off and down far enough to not catch much wind.

I’m not sure when we’ll get back to it. Mike and Dad will be headed to the Black Hills this coming weekend and following week. And I have a riding lesson this Saturday so there’s no hope that I can putter on it by myself (not that I could anyway). It does make me feel good to see that building going up. It won’t be anything fancy and I’m sure some people will turn up their noses at it, but I’ll be tickled to have it standing there waiting for the horses.

We use what resources we can at Borderlands. The wood is all new but the tin is old and was originally from some other building. We go by the motto “Reuse, recycle, repurpose”. I’m sure the building would look nicer with brand new tin with a brand new paint job, but we use what we can afford and what we have on hand. Hopefully I’ll be able to paint the tin to spruce it up a little bit. I’m sure the horses will simply be happy to have another runin so that they don’t all have to share.

If all goes well with this runin, I’m hoping to build another one this fall in a different pen. Life will be easier for me if I can get an additional runin built.

I have more to share but need to get a few things done before I can post again. Still without a computer and now I’ve lost the cord for the camera so no additional pictures until I can do some hunting of my own.