Mary asked if she could water the grass. Uh, sure go right ahead my little farmgirl. It's been very dry here, we need some rain. The horses tore up some of the pasture (converted nice grass to dirt) near the entrance to the pasture. We moved the electric fence line back and changed the gate location because we plan to do some work on some of the grass/pasture. We bought some horse pasture seed mix. We've been working to remove some of the wooden fence posts, we managed to get 38 removed, holes filled, posts stacked nicely in the woods. Also got four more sections of fence boards removed and cut in half, ready for the dump. We're getting ready to remove the line of wooden fence posts that go from near the barn to the well house. After we've got this done we will be able to easily mow and care for that area. I also removed extra fence posts in the fence line we are using which makes it easier to weedeat. We are planning to apply nitrogen, potassium, and lime (according to results of our soil test) to as large an area that we can manage and also to aerate and seed. But right now the ground is too hard and dry.
The electric fence is working great, solar charger, heavy duty 6 foot metal T posts, multi wire white polytape fencing, white plastic post top protectors, white plastic polytape post clips. It might not be the most beautiful thing in the world to look at but it's beautiful from my perspective. Relatively inexpensive, quick to put up, quick to take down, easy to move, no post holes to dig/fill or for horses to step in.
John had his friend Caleb visit for a couple of days, the kids all made some wooden swords and daggers to play with. The kids found some juicy purple berries that they used to stain/paint their weapons to look like blood. Ahh, kids.
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