Home Improvements

Another year and many changes are in the wind. We continue to make improvements to our property. We're adding a deck to the mobile and I've drawn up a landscaping plan for this spring. Am eager to start planting shrubs, trees and starter plants. Will incorporate herbs into the perennial beds around the deck. We added the white oak lot across the dirt road from our front door to our property. Biff fenced it and has cleared out the poison oak, blackberries and brush. It's looks more like a park now. Our horses like to graze and hang out over there, as a nice change of scene from their regular pasture. Connie has been training Stormy on his ground manners and getting him used to cues for going left, right, forward and stopping. She's had a saddle and bridle on him several times, getting him gently used to the feeling while she lunges him in the corral. He's 20 months old now and will bathe, load, stand for the vet and farrier, and for grooming. He's already taller than his mama, Tinker and is filling out. Tinker has trimmed down and is walking much better. She has plenty of pep for a 20 year old Quarter Horse. You should have seen her running and bucking in the pasture yesterday! Winter's half gone and I'm ready for spring. The daffodils are already budding!