Friday - Football Day

What a wonderful day this has been. Perfect weather. Stuff done...

Yesterday we got string strung, insulators installed, string unstrung.... Today we put up the old wire so we could get the horses back outside... Trying to make it as easy as possible to do chores for when we are gone to Gold Star. Dan and I worked making it a perfect electric fence.. Even installed the new fencer. (Ask him how well it works! Making double triple sure that I never find out.)

He left to mow in town and I put the horses back out.... What a fiasco. Weighed all the options, figured out what order would be best to put them out... Put the young horse out first... She beat me back into the barn... Yep, right through 2 strands of electric fence that about knocked Dan down..... So caught her put her back. Drove 4-wheeler over to unplug fence (see - I can learn how to not get shocked) Fixed the fence. Drove over plugged fence back in. Still thought I had the best order, so put her back out this time staying to keep her away from the corner until she settled down.. Now, really, we are talking about 15' away from the other 2 horses that she is "attached" to... You would think she would be okay for me to walk that far and get the second horse... Nope, this time she just came straight through the gate... (didn't unplug fence this time, she just bent the handles, fixable without touching wire)

Since fence was still up, grabbed 2nd horse and figured first would just follow.. Yes, she did... However, she wouldn't go back through the gate. Instead she went between the fence and the barn... I had already changed this fence from the first breakage to 3 strands instead of 2..... One post away from the wide open gate and she does this little - hmmm, was going to use a dressage term but since I am still mad at her, she looked just like the MULE jumping demos .... Rocked back on her hind legs, front legs up off the ground and bam - right through all 3 strands of hot wire. I heard it zap her. Why o'why doesn't it stop her??

Broke top 2 wires... Wire laying on the ground zapping. Almost twitching the zap was so strong.. Quick put last horse out. Drive over unplug fencer (must be at least tenth trip to unplug fencer today). Fix fence. Drive over to plug fencer back in.. Done in.... Time to get chores done and quit for the day!!

Yesterday I also planted about 40 more trees. Watered them all today - takes almost 90 minutes. Sing to them and talk to them, telling them how nice it is going to be for the to Grow, grow, gRow!

Nephew Brady, a sophmore, started in the football game tonight. Team won! 35-7...

Got hardware for Roman Shade via Fed Ex today. Just needed to rest this evening so didn't start putting it together. Tomorrow afterall is another day.

60 degrees, 80% humidity. 10:08 and all is well.

Hugs-