The Attic

Mark and I tackled the attic this morning starting early before the house heated up in the predicted 80 degree weather. We are filthy and tired but pleased with our effort. We moved 4 truckloads out, some to the South Side Mission, some to the dumpster and some to the farm. There is still all the boy's snowboarding equipment and a few things the girls need to go through. We found some treasures and some of the why is this up here stuff. We found a hand built wooden tricycle from when mom was a 2 year old, 2 bags full of halloween costumes were hauled out to let the nieces go through for kids and my SKIS and poles I purchased with my own money when I was sixteen. The ski boots shattered into thousands of pieces. We will wait to move the furniture when we have help but what a great start was made today.
TSC was next on the list, Mike bought 5 farm gates, the expensive big red ones so we can finish the pasture. Mark and I picked up 4 bags of grain, hauled 2 bags to the cabin, fed Sanna and Wynne, and fly sprayed them down well. Both babies stood well for the fly spray. Sanna was still in and covered. When Sanna was walking back to the cabin a HUGE black snake was lying across the road with her head up watching us. I didn't want Sanna to step on her and had to take the long way to the field. Sanna was more concerned about her filly which had been left in the cabin field with Kenzie and was fine with that. The 2 new mares were taken out one at a time and led over to Raven but neither are interested. Both of them were also fly sprayed down.
Steven Marchal showed up to help Mike hang gates and moved Raven into the pasture for some grazing time. Raven loves to be out on pasture.