Come From Away

Apparently, two weeks have passed. It is absolutely amazing how fast time can pass sometimes. It feels like it has only been a couple of days!
Decisions have been made
Price has been set
Payment has been negotiated
. . .

Apparently, the horse’s name is actually Lyrical and everyone just calls her Lyric. For some reason, I find Lyrical sounds so much sweeter and have started calling her by her “proper name.”

I have been assured that this is the last….

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The wood was delivered on August 10th. I was told that they did not have any properly seasoned hard wood this year and that the wood we received was only cut in June… It looks like we may have a cold winter coming our way as wet wood does not burn as well or as hot as properly dried wood.

12 Cords of wood (piled two deep).
Working at blocking wood.
Blocking wood is fun!
More damn wood.

As it is not well dried, I spent all my time trying to block it up first. Usually, I break up the work between, blocking, splitting, tossing and stacking. This time, I blocked it all first and just threw it in a big pile to give the last of the summer/fall sun and wind the opportunity to dry it out some more. Wood dries fastest out of the cut ends.

I finished blocking it all up on Sept. 13, 2007. Here’s what the pile looks like now.

12 Cords of blocked wood
There I am in the pile
Victory!

Now all I have to do is throw it down the wood shoot, stack it in the basement (which is too low for me to walk in), split it, burn it!

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I’ve been feeling crummy… Very crummy… And therefore, I have not been posting here. . .

In an effort to TRY and break free of the blues, I am going to make a couple of postings…

OMFG! There’s another one there now.

1, 2, 3….. 4!
What does a house with three dogs, three cats, one indoor pig, a handful of fish, three horses, seven peafowl, and fifty-ish chickens need? Why another horse, of course!

Lyric

Lyric is here for a two week trial. At the end of this trial, we will be deciding if she will stay or not… I am told that this is a trial, but I am absolutely sure that she will stay. I just know how these things go. . .

She’s really very sweet and able to be ridden out of the paddock and up the field. K has already taken her on a long ride up there and came back happy and glowing… Lyric’s a much better horse for K to ride on, so she should be a good investment. We will then work on getting our other plod-along girls to be able to go out and trail ride with K and Lyric which should be a lot of fun.