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You Know You Love Your Farm When . . .
Yesterday was a GREAT day! Not only was the weather spectacular again but three huge trucks full of gravel came rolling up to the farm. You know you love your farm when, more than 24 hours later, you are still elated over this turn of events! My horse friends totally get my sheer bliss and joy about three loads of gravel. My non-horse friends don’t get it at all.
I could stand and stare at this lovely, gravelled gate area for hours
It is almost impossible to keep the areas around the water troughs dry because of the constant dumping and scrubbing, so the troughs are all getting a gravel pad.
This used to be our wading pool in the middle of the alley; you will recall
Hopefully we will be able to finish moving and spreading the gravel in the next few days. I am ecstatic over the areas we’ve already addressed. I had Christmas in July when I got a new horse, and now I’m having Christmas in October with my gravel. It really takes a horse person, or a farm person, to understand why gravel is such a life changing event!
The best part is that we don’t get the knee high, boot sucking mud that I experienced when I lived in New England (that fifth season called mud season), so it only takes a couple of inches of gravel with no site prep to solve mud problems here. We should not need to add any more gravel for a few years. Winter should be much more pleasant this year now that all of the gates will have large, gravelled areas. The main reason this is such a big deal to me is because I spend a lot of time in the mud around the gates every day. That is where the horses gather to have their feedbags put on so it will be nice to not be doing that in the mud.
I hope everyone has a great weekend, I’ll be enjoying my gravel!
The big boys come running over when they notice the pile of gravel. It becomes a great excuse for lots of snorting and spooking. Levendi is the ‘brave’ one who paws at the gravel.
For anyone who is interested, this is a video clip from feeding the fish in the pond the other day.
Lightening grazing in the front while Teddy naps and Mr. O’Reilly grazes in the background. Lightening is an Arabian and retired trail horse. Teddy is a Quarter Horse and retired from dressage. O’Reilly is an Irish bred horse retired from the jumper ring.
