Congratulations!
I love this for you!!!
Woohoo! Move in day is the best day!
Shayney is not disappointing in her lack of common sense. She keeps going behind the pine trees by herself, eating for awhile, and then panicking that she can’t see Niko.
It’s a great feeling when they’re home.
I’ve loved following along your journey and how exciting that the ponies are now home.
That is great.
I have one with a similar level of common sense.
You just have to laugh at them (and keep your fingers crossed hoping they do not hurt themselves while being that stupid).
I am grinning from ear to ear for you! You’re going to remember this day for the rest of your life. Such a sense of accomplishment…. And so much hard work that has paid off. Enjoy every moment forward!
She’s one that will hurt herself. Separation anxiety training starts tomorrow, I dont want to let it get too crazy before I nip it.
Congratulations on having them home!
Over the moon for you (and very jealous of your rain…dry lot looks superb!)
I got them both to drink from the trough. They both have figured out the “bike bell = yummy snacks” already, so I’ve been luring them inside to enjoy the fans and some treats every hour or so.
Shayney is interested but not scared of the cows out back.
Supposed to be bad storms tonight so they’re tucked in for the night.
The divider is an aisle guard. It would certainly fail a fractious horse but it’s really easy and doesn’t leave hinges hanging out. It was worth a try in my situation.
Question - it’s been mentioned to me that leaving fans on during a thunderstorm increases the risk of the structure being struck.
Is that true? It doesn’t make sense to me, personally. It’s a gigantic metal structure, 3 small fans shouldn’t increase or decrease the risk (in my mind).
I have never heard this crazy rumor…
It is weird the things that people come up with.
Will running fans in your house make it more likely to get struck too?
I hadn’t heard it either, which is why I was surprised when my friend mentioned it (I have my fan plugged into thermostats so they kick on and off at 80f automatically).
We have no power here after the big storms last night. Generator is on to power the main appliances but what a welcome home for the horses - here, have a tornado.
And - my lovely neighbors are blaming me for crushing a tile and removing a clean out. Note that I haven’t dug deeper than 8 inches, and my fence posts are 1) intentionally placed to avoid where he said the tile was, 2) are 3’ in the ground when he said the tile was minimum 4’, and 3) I’ve not dug deeper than 8" (they’re convinced I ran the barn gutters to the tile, haha, yeah, no, I’m way too lazy to dig that deep for a gutter, and I have photos to prove it - he came over yelling at me when i was hand-digging the trench, accusing me of trying to damage the tile…).
Whatever is wrong, I’m not paying to fix it. That track steer was not big enough to crush a tile, and my loads of stone were dumped north of where he said it was run. The fence posts have been in since March and we’ve had substantial rains without issue. I’ll allow them on my property to repair it (with a contract to return everything to current status) but not on my dime.
I moved to the country to avoid this shit. I just want to enjoy my property. My husband and I will never tie into that tile, because we know it’s emotionally charged between the neighbors and we don’t want to get involved.
Ugh.
Edit: for the clean out he was literally yelling at me “it was there!! It was there!!” And I finally lost my temper and told him that I might be new to this house but I’m not stupid, and I would never have removed a god damn tile clean out. It wasn’t here when we bought the property, I don’t know what to tell the guy.
Bet a buck that tile is nowhere near 4’. If it was shallower, he needed to tell me that so I could have avoided it - I went on the information he gave me.
Are you talking about a public storm sewer?
I can not see why anything else would be running on your property. Heck, I can not see why even that would be that far back on your property.
No, it’s a drain tile (like farm field tile, used to be clay but is supposedly replaced) that runs to the creek. It runs across their property (they tie their sump into it), across our property (we tie nothing into it) and across the neighbors property (they tie their sump into it) to the creek.
They keep saying things like “there’s a right to drainage”. Yes. With an easement, which they don’t have according to the title. But regardless I’ll allow people on my property to repair it, but I refuse to pay. I did everything I did based on the information they gave me. I’d be happy if these people never talked to me again honestly - I’ve tried really hard to be nice while holding my ground.