Day Off, Relax, N O T !

For 50 some odd years, I always thought days off from a J O B were to relax and recuperate so you were ready for the next week. I guess I was wrong, again. I am going to have to go back to the farm work to rest up from the work around home.

We had 2 fairly big projects on the list for this weekend. One of them got cut down due to lack of equipment, but not eliminated. We got both projects done and managed to do it without killing each other.

Enlarge the lamb pen was the biggest. Last time we enlarged it, it took us 2 days. We must be getting better at this stuff cause we did 2x as much in only 3/4 of the day.

First thing this morning we had to reset the round pen. That’s not real tough but there is always minor adjustments to do on the last panel. Today was no exception. Everything went pretty easy till we got the last panel in and tried to put the “man gate” in.

I want it so it opens to the outside to facilitate a rapid exit in case I need it. Like I am about to get run over, kicked, bit, or some other event that may prove injurious to my aging body. It took more time to get that stupid man gate, or in this case a woman gate, to open out without getting caught on a pin from the adjoining panel than it did to put the other 9, 6′ panels in to resemble a round pen.

We had to get that done because our new mare was getting delivered this afternoon and we had to have somewhere to put her. Below is a picture of Neche in her temporary home.