Fence is up!

Here is our temporary fence, until we tear it all out, fall a few more trees, build the barn and put in permanent paddocks. Paul cut down a bunch of little trees for some of the posts, they look cute! Too bad they aren't treated, so we will replace them when we build the barn, but for now they are great! Apparently I didn't get any pics of those ones though, sorry! Maybe later.

Horse Habitat Progress

T found this umbrella and kept calling it her umbarrow and then laughing hysterically. She carted it all around for a while. Here she and her Umbarrow are checking out the new driveway.

These logs will be beams for the barn.

Driveway and future lawn area leveled and ready for gravel.

The new gravel spread out. We traded a horse for this gravel, it has a lot cheaper upkeep!

Hunter follows me everywhere, so he ends up in a lot of these pics!

Wide open spaces...kinda.

We are making progress towards building the barn!!! Paul spent three days with an excavator last weekend clearing for where we are going to build the barn! We also cleared up by the house to make more driveway and parking space.

The view from in front of the house,


Before.

After!

The future barn site, paddocks will go back and to the left.

Look What we Ordered from Rods!

Merry Christmas everyone! I love Christmas time, and it's been really fun with Baby T so far this year. Nana bought her an advent calendar and she loves to see what's behind each little door. She also loves to get a hold of the ribbons and drag it around and make a big tangled mess of it. She actually isn't that interested in the tree, but with the gate around it, she can't get

into too much trouble, so it's probably no fun anyway.

My New Ride

Well these aren't the best pictures, but I got a '94 4Runner over the weekend. We've had our eye on it for a while the body and interior are in great condition but it has a NASTY rod knock. That's where being married to a mechanic is a wonderful thing. And my husband can fix ANYTHING so it will be up and running in no time! Also for those of you who haven't seen our place, (like certain persons in Michigan- hello Aunt Trish!) here is the front of our shop and you can see a bit of one window in the house. I'll get better pics of the whole thing someday soon.

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Chilly Days

The days have definately been getting colder, here's T bundled up for our walk and the frosty leaves we saw along the way.

Our Road

I really like the fact that we live on a dead end road, and a dirt road at that. Although I don't enjoy our dirty cars. But I love our quiet road and being surrounded by trees. Here's our road and a big dead tree that I think is kinda cool.