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Category Archives: barn

baby it’s windy out there!

It rained all night and the temperature edged up to about 50F, so the snow is pretty much extinct. There is some treacherous ice, however, just waiting for a single misstep. Because it’s so warm and wet, I wanted to give the barn a bit of a cleaning – preventative maintenance, something I really should [...]

scrub a dub dub

Whew – now that the baking and stitching and other busy-ness associated with the wonderful Marketplace Fair is behind me, I could finally spend a day tending to the neglected barn. I’ve been feeling so guilty about how wet and dirty the floor was, so I spent nearly four hours today mucking it out. I [...]

we didn’t christen it with champagne

But the fence was open for use yesterday – which, coincidentally, was also my birthday. I felt a little guilty about opening the door for the animals without Tigger, Lauren and David present because they did all the really hard work – but neither did I want to delay the animals’ use of their new [...]

bucolic idyll

Not to imply that I am idle, but when I looked at the pictures I snapped this afternoon, I was just amazed by how peaceful and rustic the barnyard appears. It’s the sort of place I’d slow down (were I driving by) to get a better look. There’s a lot of work to be done [...]

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