Spring Cleanup

Just three weeks ago we had about two feet of snow on the ground. Now, most of the snow has melted and the grass is starting to get green in between the patches of mud. Mud season wasn't too bad this year for us, although it's hard to avoid in the horses' field. High muck boots are a must because one does sink up to one's ankles when walking out there. Whit finished burying rubble and stumps and raking out the field on the garden side of our house. Time to move the horses there to let their field finish drying out.

Scooby was brought in to be harnessed so he could help move their hay feeder. Those are two of our new baby goats...escapees.
Scooby was so excited to be working again after a long winter that he could hardly contain his excitement, which is pretty funny looking. He prances. Look at those ears perked up...he is one happy horse.

The hay feeder tends to tip forward when it's being dragged, so TBear is ballast.

Into the newly raked field.

Another small project to finish was dragging some logs out of the woods to be cut up for firewood. Scooby is already harnessed, so now was a good time to do it.

TBear's job was to wrap the chains around the logs and attach them to the singletree.

It wasn't exactly a tough workout today, but Scooby is definitely enjoying the brush down and catching some rays here. Boy was there a lot of hair coming off that horse. The barn swallows will have lots of nesting material when they get here.

Going to the dry field. I brought his buddies over too, shortly after this.

This rocking horse in our barn belonged to Whit when he was Sunny's age. That makes it more than forty-five years old. They just don't make toys like they used to, do they. We love this horse.