With small acreages hard to come by & both of us ready to
enjoy life in town - what do we do? We decide to pay to board Farah. Starting out with a stall in the barn - our mare was gaining weight & certainly not getting enough exercise. She made friends with the horse next to her & seems totally relaxed & comfortable. Since we've been busy with the remodel of our
new-to-us home - my ride time has been limited & the holidays are upon us.
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| Hard at it :-) |
Now that a run has opened up - with a place inside to get out of the weather - we decided we'd move Farah from the stall this afternoon. Horse ownership in Iowa is somewhat different than it was in Washington. Horses here are definitely treated more as
livestock & not pampered to the extent most of the horses in WA are. I - of course - have pampered the gold girl for many years & it's been tough to not be able to walk out my door & see her.
When we arrived today to check out the run - we found it needed a lot of clean-up work. Nothing like paying to do - what we used to do for free :-) I'd gotten carried away last week & decided to do some cleaning in the feed room. I left it way better than I'd found it - but hadn't carried off all the trash. Today - the trash was gone! I think the young couple in charge of feeding & cleaning the barn removed it. I also did some sweeping & cleaning in the tack room. I think this means I'm actually missing barn chores!
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| Farah on the move! |
Farah seemed thrilled to be out again! She hit the enclosure at a full trot & in seconds had taken down the lower line of rope hot wire - managing to wrap her tail around it & then drag it around the tree! Butch was Not happy! We could find no insulators, so my husband had to adapt the broken ones with baling twine & electrical tape. Since the poor gelding on that side had been put in
his place... She started checking out the gelding on the other side - at least that didn't result in any more damage!
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| Checking out the view~ |
By the time we had her feed bag & grain bucket in place, she'd finally calmed down. She stood at the top of the hill - looking out over the countryside. Such a different view from the one she was used to. Hopefully, she'll like being out better than being in! I do not want to end up with fat mare :-) After all - there's got to enough riding trails to keep us busy next season :-)
