Just Another Weekend in the Country

I thought weekends were for relaxing. They are a great way to change the pace and step out of the rat race but they are not always as relaxing as you hope.  Sometimes they are pretty busy packed full of chores jobs that need to be done.  There is almost never a dull moment when you have so much to do. This weekend we started early on Saturday morning.

Our first task was to start removing old fence so we can build some new ones that are stronger, better and that make our pastures larger.  We finally got tired of finding horses getting out and having to walk fence lines to find breaks and then mend them so that they could just break in another place and the whole drill would start over.  Well, this weekend we started rebuilding fences.  Tearing up an old fence can be a pretty rough job.  First you have to take the old wire off and then pull the post and then wind the old wire so nothing gets hurt on the old wire.  I started the destruction process by my self but in just a little while all four of us, Dre', Logan, Holden and I were all out working in the hot and humid day in a joint effort to pull the old fence so we can get a new one in place for the fall and winter. In about four hours of combined work we did more than I could have done in a whole weekend by myself. We are a great team.  Dre' and I were removing wire from the posts, Logan was pulling fence posts out of the ground and Logan was loading them in the truck.  We got the entire run of fence cleaned up and by next weekend we will be driving fence post and digging post holes for corner posts.  Then we will be stretching wire and we will have a new pasture for the horses...easy as that.  

If that was all we did that would have been enough but, it wasn't.  We also hauled hay and worked around in the yard. This was all done between torrential downpours and strong thunderstorms.  We bought the DVD The Hunger Games and though Logan had seen it three times none of the rest of us had seen it so we watched it last night.  It was a great day

If you look closely you see two feet up top and two feet
below.  To the right of the of the rear foot is the new baby
stretching up across its mom Actually its head is in the
pouch.  Isn't nature wonderful?

We got a watermelon at the grocery store yesterday and this afternoon it was our Sunday afternoon treat. Before the afternoon is over, Dre' will pickle fresh okra. Believe it or not Holden's favorite.  

Just a few minutes ago I went in to clean our sugar gliders' cage.  When I did, I discovered that we have a  new baby.  It is too young to tell if it is a girl or a boy but it is about the size of my thumb and still clinging to its mama, Sugar.  (For those that don't know a sugar glider is an Australian marsupial that looks like a flying squirrel but is closely kin to an opossum and  very sweet little animals)  

As I said, it has been a very busy weekend around Helms Casa.  I hope everyone had as interesting a weekend as my family.

Until next time....