My Soapbox for Equestrian Writings
After another foot of snow fell last night, adding insult to injury. The snow is now so deep that it’s almost subsumed our fencing at the barn. You can still see the wooden post fencing, but the internal tape fencing? It’s pretty much underwater. The good news is that there’s so much snow that even […]
Read MoreIt’s always nice to see the happy, smiling faces of your horses when you drive up to the barn. The problem I had yesterday is that Freedom and Zelda are not turned out together. At least they are not supposed to be in the same pasture. And up until now, they never have been. However, […]
Read MoreWhen I arrived at the barn to feed this morning something didn’t look quite right. It took me a moment to register that part of the fencing was down between the two paddocks. Looking again, I confirmed that the horses were all in the right places, despite the lack of barrier. Walking over to the […]
Read MoreWhile other folks are out watering their gardens in the morning, you’ll see me out in the pasture diligently watering the grounding rods for my electric fence. We’ve had a relatively dry spring and although I have two grounding poles daisy chained together for my fencing that are on a hill with fairly sandy soil. […]
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