Champions

 It was only 19 degrees outside, what a change from yesterday.  The good news for us was the ground was frozen but the gravel pile was not.  Right after breakfast Mark started spreading gravel on the North and East side of the barn. Our airbnb guests were coming in this afternoon and we wanted to make sure they could drive all the way around the barn and now they can. 

Evan's paddock needed a new bale so while Mark had the skid steer out I moved the motorhome out of the barn and parked it out of the way with the 2 horse trailers.

The next job was to let Evan into the field and lock him out of the paddock. He was thrilled to get out, had to roll then put in some big bucks. What I didn't realize was when he was showing off I must have turned to phone upside down so some of the video he is bucking upside down.

The grass is growing but not long enough to leave him out. As soon as we put the bale in he was put back in his paddock. He was happy with his new bale so all was well.

The hay is our first cutting and in the picture above and looks faded but it really isn't. Below is a close up of the bale. Even though it is first cutting we put it up early and it is fine stemmed and still green.

I know I brag on our hay too much but last year's hay was just exceptional. 

The middle paddock also got a bale. I don't have any horses in there yet but as long as we were moving hay it just made sense to move in two bales.

After the bales were moved I took the golf cart over to the dumpster to throw the net wrap away and checked out Mark's work this morning. Below is the East side of the barn, the gravel now is wide enough to easily make it around the last of the pile at the corner.

Mark is saving that pile of gravel to work on pot holes on the main drive.

The North side is almost done.

Above is looking East and below is looking West.

Evan was led back to his paddock before I went back up to the barn. I wanted to count bales.

We have 42 left. That should easily get us through until we can cut hay again. Mark and I left at 1:45 pm to drive to Costco to pick up the sprout sandwiches for church lunch tomorrow. That place was packed. Shoppers had carts full of stuff. By looking around you couldn't even tell there is a recession going on.  We had one problem, Costco doesn't take Discover card and that is the only card I use. Mark has a Master Card and they don't take that either. He ended up using his debit card. From there we drove to church, put the 15 trays of sandwiches in the fridge then set up the tables and move out the serving carts. We need to leave here tomorrow by 7:50 am. On our way back Anna sent the picture of Taegan's basketball tournament. The Farmington Farmers won the tournament. Anna wrote: Tournament Champions!! What a fantastic end of the season. So proud of all these hard working ladies!

We stopped at Arby's for supper ordering 2 fish sandwiches for $6.00. Joan took the motorhome over to her place this afternoon. There is a drawer that needs work on and she wanted to get it ready to rent.