East

What a weird night. Storms typically come from the west. But last night as I was standing outside talking with a friend that stopped at the Sanctuary, black clouds that had been to the east started rolling the wrong direction. We were standing there and all of a sudden the skies opened up and poured rain!  Mike was out with the little Bear and by the time they got in (I'd already run in to the house with my friend), they were soaked. Bad mommy moment. I should have gotten the Bear since I run and Mike won't. He only trots. :-)

But after my friend left, I tackled the daunting challenge of moving the corral panels alone. I was able to back the horse trailer up to the far side of where I'd had the ponies to load the corral panels into the trailer. That is SO the easy way to go about moving corral panels instead of loading them two or three at a time on to a wheel barrow or my little yellow hay wagon.

Unfortunately, I wasn't paying any attention to how I had the corral panels so when I finally got the panels up and going (I started from both ends), I discovered I had half backwards. I was NOT about to undue all that work (the sun had already set and the mosquitoes were starting to come out). So I just tied it with twine. Thank goodness for twine.

Luckily I didn't get too soaked moving corral panels. I was afraid moving the corral panels would mess up my shoulder to the point that I'd have to sleep on the floor again because it hurt that bad. But it must be on the upswing because today it doesn't hurt that bad. The ponies were happy to get in to the new pasture. I dont' think they even wandered in to the back part of the pasture (behind the shed). I'm sure by the weekend, they will wander back there.  Unfortunately, I think the only thing back there are weeds. I always have such good intentions to clean up after where the ponies have eaten down so that it makes the place look nice. But I don't. Always too much going on.

I saw Mayhem for a few minutes last night. She came up to eat weeds on the other side of the fence. Darn filly! I think they are enjoying their new pasture. I just hope that it holds out. If we get more rain, maybe I can move them back to their old pasture for a week to give the new pasture a break.

We haven't had a decent rain since all the flooding back in June. I'm hoping that next week the weatherman is right and we'll get some rain. The rain we got last night was just enough to get everything wet but not enough to do much good.

A few years back we planted a couple of spruce trees and white pines. They all died during the drought two years ago so we replaced them. Hopefully we can keep up with watering them each night so they can get established. Having some evergreens along the driveway would help with the wind that comes up the driveway during the winter.

And it's August 1st! (not sure how that happened so quickly). So it means another Horse of the Month. I need to dig through some pictures to see who should be spotlighted again. I am going to go offline for a few days. I'll post again soon but need to get a few things accomplished.