Wow, this weekend that vision in my head was realized. Our farm looked like a gathering spot with kids running around crazy getting dirty from head to toe, a little gal working horses in the round pen, boarders coming and going, men setting fences, and everyone pitching in moving animals and carrying buckets of feed. It was just a fantastic weekend!

I headed into town early to pick up food supplies and Brian arrived early to help get the goat pen started. By the time I got home our other boarders had landed and then Kim arrived a few minutes behind me. We all visited for a while and then the guys took off to work on the pen. I just can't believe how much work they got done yesterday! The goats are in their new home and the fence/structures for goat handling were all removed from the barn. Now we have one large common area that I will get cleaned and then we'll put stalls in there for the horses. The divider fence was removed which doubled the barn pen space and opened up shelter for all the horses without crowding them at all. My head was swimming at all the work they accomplished and would you believe I was speechless when Brian asked what the next project is? Never fear, I started adding to the list on the garage board this morning. And somewhere secret there will be a plan for Kim and I do section off a pen for a pig or two. For some reason our guys are completely against it but you know, once we show up with a couple, what can they do? :)

I think we're going to have another great working weekend if the weather holds. We're having hay delivered Saturday and they've agreed to help us unload it. Without a spike we have to use old fashioned manpower to roll the bales off the trailer and then roll them into place in the barn. It sounds easy but rolling 1,200 lbs. of hay is a lot harder than it looks! We're thinking my in-laws may come up for the day as well to help do some things and then enjoy some riding - I hope so. They haven't been up in a while together since my sister-in-law started working at LiveOps and schedules her time on the weekends. It would just be great to have good weather and lots of people milling about. I may just pull out the smoker and get a large ham or something so we'll have a meal cooking through the day. The thing I enjoy the most, other than just the company, is that everyone seems to believe me when I tell them to make themselves completely at home so I never feel like I'm "hosting" and I certainly hope they don't feel like "guests".