Thankful Challenge

I had high hopes last night of getting a few things done for the Sanctuary, like the paypal account and getting pictures of items for sale (they would make GREAT Christmas presents!). It didn't happen.

I ran out of steam long before I should have. I'm reading/reviewing a book for the Senior Equine Care blog but I didn't get it wrapped up like I wanted to. Two pages in and I fell asleep. I'm hoping that I can get some motivation and get a few more things off my to do list. This daylight savings time and getting old are rough on a body.

Luckily I was able to do most of my chores before the sun set last night (thanks to my son's help). Even at two he's willing to help push the hay wagon and wheel barrow fully loaded with hay! What a trooper. It also helped this morning to have a full moon to work by. I'm using up the hay from last year before I start in on this year's hay. We had left over hay thanks to people donating their hay! That means I have to throw hay over the gate and then spread it around instead of pulling my hay wagon in to the drylot. That method will last until the first accumulating snow, which sounds like it could be Monday.

I'm going to be scrambling Sunday to get things buttoned up before the snow flies. I'm afraid we won't get the roof back on the run-in shed at the bottom of the drylot in just one day but I'm going to tackle it if anyone wants to help. We still have alfalfa to stack and put away and fencing to do. We need the alfalfa stacked and covered so that we can use the trailer to pick up fencing materials. The flatbed trailer is always a catch 22. We leave anything on it (for one reason or another) and then we need it. Never knew we would use that trailer as much as we do!

I'm not sure if I'll have time to post anything over the weekend but if you have free time on Sunday, stop on out. We'll be busy working on any number of projects. We can always use the help.

We are also still fundraising to bring in the older horse who deserves a retirement home. We have one bale paid for so we are down to FOUR bales left to fundraise for. Even $5 will go far in raising funds for "Junior". November is the month of being thankful. I'd like to say in the middle of the month that I 'm thankful we were able to raise the funds so we could bring Junior "home". Can you help?

Don't forget to check us out on Facebook. We are doing the November "Thankful" challenge. It's pretty easy thanks to all of our wonderful supporters!