First lesson in Spooner

With Zeke's training fee, you get one hour per horse per week of time with Zeke and your horse. I spent the entire two hours with Sparkler, choosing to forget about Red until next time. Zeke demonstrated Parelli groundwork exercises, otherwise known as "games". Then I gave it a try. I'm not very coordinated, but it was a blast.

I'm getting an arena

The pole shed is mine! We had a neighbor renting our pole shed since we bought the farm, which he filled with farm equipment. We wanted to have this space back for some time but hated to ask him to leave. Not just because of the rent money, but we didn't want to make things harder for him than they are.

New Tractor

But we need the space for Bob's new tractor and I need a space to train and ride. There's a lot of cleaning up to do--bits of lumber, rope, metal, straw and other junk. I'll need to put plywood on the sides. The posts are 9 feet apart. Plywood only comes in 8 foot widths, so we'll have to put up 2 X 4 stringers to attach the plywood to.