I have been challenged

Holly, from themares.blogspot.com , has challenged me to do this seven day thing, where I take pics every day and post nine of them. Or something like that. The idea is to show a day in the life of me, I guess. That is how I am taking it at least.

Taking the pics every day is NOT hard--at least not on the weekends--during the week it might get a little dicey since it will be almost dark when I get home. I will try though. Yesterday was my first day, and it was a perfect day for it.


I spent a lot of time in the truck, in the pasture, running errands to help my saviors who are building a new perimeter fence. Which is a whole other story I will tell when I am over it.


It is not a hardship being out there in the sun--the trees are gorgeous this year. It happened while I was gone on my trip.
These two put up over 700 feet of fence in one day. While I would not normally use field fence, this was very much an unplanned and un-budgeted for expense, and we had to do what we had to do. And since it is a perimeter fence, it will not be a situation where horses are likely to bicker over it and get caught in it---or so I am telling myself.

I finally learned the trick of tightening post settings. My guys told me that it was an added rustic touch to use a discarded branch as the twister stick--funny Amish, I have. They swear it adds value to my totally custom fence. Only I get comedians--but I will take it over crackhead employees all day long. I am pretty sure these guys won't be cooking meth on the property.

I really would not use barbed wire if I had any other choice. I have spent years removing it from the property, but hot wire on top of this fence is not an option due to the heavy woods it goes through. Without a suitable incentive to stay off of the fence, the horses might be tempted to lay over it to get to the bean fields on the other side--and like I said, that is a whole other story I don't have the energy to get into.


Tomorrow, they come back after their regular work day to start the next section of fence--it is around 1000 feet. Once that is done, I can relax and get back to real life. I am so grateful to these guys that have come through to help me like they have--they work so hard and get so much done, and do it right. It is a load off my shoulders to have it done (or in the process), so that I don't lose any more sleep or have to wait for Barry to come home to do it--he hardly has the time, or the inclination to take on a project this large.


It was kind of fun to take pics that were a little different than I usually take--it took a lot of thinking and trying to see things in a different way, and I had to try to not take pics of the workers, since they do not like to have their photos taken. That cut out a lot of my photo ops. These did end up demonstrating a day in my life pretty well too--now what I will come up with for six more days, I have no idea.