OH MAGGIE!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT OF THE CORRAL AGAIN! As I spoke to my horse with food in my hand, she followed me back to the gate so I could coax her back in while holding off the other two horses so they wouldn't get out. Mostly yelling at them to " back up". It was feeding time and they were hungry and wanted the food in my hand too. All four of us were standing at the partially open gate. Finally I decided to give them grain and hay to distract them and Maggie walked herself back in to eat her grain and hay also.
I decided then and there that I did not want to play this game all winter long so.....YEP, The suburban girl started pounding stakes into the partially frozen ground this morning with a HUGE HEAVY sledge hammer at the corral area between the previously installed stakes where there may be gaps big enough for our horses to escape. I pounded eleven of them in and then took twine roping and tied and knotted the boogers out of it to secure the stakes. All while working over an hour in this 25* weather.
I hate cold weather, I hate farm life and ironically HERE I AM, doing this hard work with no men are ever at home when needed in these situations!
Well, the horses liked the company as they chewed their hay and watched every move I made. I could imagine Maggie was thinking, now how am I going to escape?
I decided then and there that I did not want to play this game all winter long so.....YEP, The suburban girl started pounding stakes into the partially frozen ground this morning with a HUGE HEAVY sledge hammer at the corral area between the previously installed stakes where there may be gaps big enough for our horses to escape. I pounded eleven of them in and then took twine roping and tied and knotted the boogers out of it to secure the stakes. All while working over an hour in this 25* weather.
I hate cold weather, I hate farm life and ironically HERE I AM, doing this hard work with no men are ever at home when needed in these situations!
Well, the horses liked the company as they chewed their hay and watched every move I made. I could imagine Maggie was thinking, now how am I going to escape?
