Weekend in a Nutshell

I've been absent from blogging and Facebook for awhile. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things. A few minor blows sort of took me down for a little bit but not for very long.


So here's what we got accomplished over the long holiday.


I pulled up all the temporary fence in the big pasture. The horses had run through it and taken it down because I didnt' have the electric on it anyway. And the electric wasnt' working right to begin with. There's some loose wire and a fence post or two I still need to pick up but there's only two or three to go back out and retrieve.


I scrapped and painted (primed, and painted two coats) of the barn over the weekend. I'd taken part of Friday off to work on the barn and then it promptly rained. There wasnt' supposed to be anything and then it turned into a downpour. Luckily the rain didnt' take the primer off. I only got the bottom half of the west side of the barn. So it looks pretty redneck right now. But my thought was, better to get SOMETHING done, than nothing and if we get a day or two of nice weather, I can go back and work on it again. Now I just need to get the ladder and scaffolding out so I can work on the upper part. Hoping this weekend but not holding my breath. Anyone want to paint?


Mike worked on the garage. He not only patched the hole the roof, he put on new eaves and new shingles. There was about four layers I guess on the old roof. I don't think we'll get any more done on the roof unfortunately. We need to tackle roofing the hay barn because that is in much worse shape. It leaks like crazy. And even though we are in the middle of the garage, it doesn't leak and the alfalfa and straw bales in the hay barn are going to get ruined if they havent' already. But it all takes more time that I had estimated.


I'm just hoping for a long fall so we can get a few more projects done. I need a week of fantastic weather and time off the paying job.


I also got some trim stained and started varnishing it so that we can finish up two projects that we had started on the house. It's not Sanctuary related but it is time away from the Sanctuary to get the house looking nice. I'm tired of the place looking dumpy. It's so hard to keep up with everything and after 12 years of neglecting the outbuildings, it shows.


I could really use the help this weekend but we need to haul hay bales and my son has a birthday party to go to. So I'm not really sure who to swing everything. There's so much that needs to be done.


And now I've tossed in our annual playday  fundraiser because we DESPERATELY need to get funds raised to pay off the hay. I hate having loans and it's really rubbing me raw to know that I can't outright pay for it. But the playday should be fun. We are tossing in an obstacle course in the morning so hopefully that'll grab a few more people. Now to actually tackle getting things ready. I'm so far behind I just don't know if I can get it all done!