Warning...Lots Of Photos

My landscaping mode kicked in, so today I tore into redoing the 'flower' part of the island. I forgot to take a 'before' picture of the corner I worked on, but it pretty much looked like this...
Just bare dirt with a bunch of plants I haphazardly planted last year.

My first attempt...

It just didn't feel right. My plan was to continue the mulch across the whole space and rearrange my shade loving plants on the other side. But it ended up feeling like a lot of bare area with red mulch dumped on it.

I scrounged around the garden and pulled more of my 'salvage' plants from last year to fill in the space a little more...

That's better. BTW...All of the plants are 'salvage' plants from either this year or last year. I have saved boo-ku bucks buying all of my stuff of the 50% off rack at Lowes.

Now, I just need to finish the other half. It'll be off to the garden department tomorrow for more supplies. (Yayyyy...:)

After that, the horse pens got tore down and moved...
Now MH can come in with the bobcat and scrape. He's happy that the pens are farther from the house. The flies are a coming.

I ran over and picked up the big bay gelding from the trainer...
Due to the EHV-1 scare, several of Levi's clients opted to wait a couple of weeks before bringing horses to him. A financial hit for the kid. So, he took a 30-day ranch job with a friend of his that got bucked off a colt and broke his shoulder. Levi is going to help him finish calving, branding and moving pairs to the mountains. I wished Jet had been far enough along for Levi to take with him...but a little time off might do the horse some good. Levi says he is going better, but is not ready to hit open country yet.

While I was down taking a pick of the bay, I see Tippy checking something out in this post...


Ah-hah...and a very pissed off little momma bird...


Figured I better check it out and make sure the cats couldn't get to the babies...
There was only one and it was too far down in the post for the cat to get to (or to take a picture of).

Monkey see...Monkey do...


Except shortstuff couldn't quite see down into the post...
Oww...slivers!

Gee...and we even managed to get 4 horses worked today too. Yay!

That's what our long weekend is consisting of. Hope everyone else is enjoying their long weekend and getting to do something they enjoy as well.

The Bad Thing About Leaving Home...

Is that when you come home...there's a ton of work to do.

My Honey and I spent the last couple of days whipping out the yard work, burning the last of the weeds and cleaning up the odds and ends of stuff laying around. It's not completely done...but the majority of it is.

It's back to riding for me. Amazing how quickly the ponies lose their condition. Of course, several days on grass and they balloon up like you wouldn't believe.

These two were glad to change places with the other bunch...


Beretta is finally letting go of the last of her winter hair...


Not dapples...pieces of winter hair that haven't let go yet...
LOL...She looks like a patchwork quilt. She's all slick and shiny underneath and then those ridiculous chunks of hair sticking out.

She's doing pretty good though. Her knee is back to normal, all of the bite marks have haired over and she has only been a little off in that hind leg. It's more noticeable when she is tired. By the afternoon, she is ready to come back in and take a nice long nap. She is growing again and I think it bothers her more then.

Spooks won't admit it, but I think he likes her. He often stands watch over her when she is napping, like a mare with a foal. Thankfully he is not stupid about it. I can separate them without a fuss. It sure is nice having a nice elder for Beretta to hang out with though. I told my mom, if I am going to continue to bring babies out here for handling, the black horse would have to stay, so I had someone to show them how to be nice, responsible youngsters. Lord knows, none of my other jerk geldings fit that bill. Everything else that is here is mean to the core. ;-)

When All Else Fails...

Go to Vegas!!!