The barn arrives in July 2008, and sits and waits. Craig was working many, many long hours this summer
We've been working on our little barn for a year and a half now. We are slowly picking away at the things we'd like to do. Craig is awesome with a hammer, and I am so grateful for his abilities. Thanks also to Tom & Joc and uncle Jimmy for helping with the barn. Jeremy, Colin and myself are learning a lot of construction skills as we progress also. Megan....well, she's just doing her own thing, and we find misc nails pounded in some strange places.
Craig & Jeremy drill the holes. This took a while! We had to "water" the holes. The earth was so dry and hard, the auger couldn't penetrate.
Here is our little barn in December 2008 now. Sometimes this is just the way life goes. We have two strands of wire up around the pasture area! And Craig is almost done with the doors for the barn!
January 2009 has come and gone, and wow...it sure was cold!! Very little progress made on the horse barn. Hopefully this cold snap breaks soon! It is so hard on the animals.
We've made some progress!! Craig is getting some doors on the front now, and we've got the people door put in. The tack area is started with the framing for the wall done, and a "floor". He has built two stalls.Nothing fancy, but that's okay! I'm excited to have them. We made some stall mats out of old conveyor belting.--but only had enough for two stalls. We will try to have four stalls across that whole side before we call it done.
April 2009
April 2010
Work continues on our barn. It's really getting cute now. Craig added a lean to off the barn, and a little decorative porch. The "arena" has been leveled (Thanks Ridge Owen!!) and the fence post are going in. We need sand. The arena is clay right now, which makes riding impossible with any little bit of rain.
Here's the cute little porch! Needs some flowers!
This is a shot of the inside. We've got two stalls done, and one big run in to the dry lot. We hope to turn the run in, into two more stalls
Our up and coming tack room!
The west fence line for the arena...Notice the 20 ft pole!! We're talking lights and volleyball net too!! (someday) :>)
