March 25-28 Easter Weekend

Well work continued this weekend. On Friday and Saturday Francis was removing the old hay from the hayloft in the area above where the two new stalls will go.  He needed the weight off the floor so he could reposition support posts and get ready to repair the joists. He took apart two stalls so they are ready to be reconfigured/ reinstalled in their new allocated spot. The stall doors are being reused but will eventually have "tops" that fold down so the horses can hang their heads out. He is going to "McGyver" the ones we have now that are fixed grills. The full wall partitions are going to become half solid walls and then we will reuse some of the other grill pieces from the other stalls to make an upper half that is grill work. This has the advantage of letting the light from the windows filter down to the second stall, and allows the horses to "talk" to each other.

Unfortunately, work was delayed on Sunday as Francis had thought Home Depot would be open and it wasn't. So work got "stalled out" :) until Monday when we went to buy 4x4 and 6x6 posts for the stalls.

I've decided to reuse old horseshoes that belonged to my old horse, Romy, to make bridle and halter hooks. I found black paint that gives a "hammered" look-- think it will be just the ticket. This way Romy's spirit is invited into my new horses' home. The horseshoes won't all match but they will add character--- and are  part of the barn's heritage so they will add to the story.

Just got back from a site inspection-hehe; Good thing I went out. He had put up two supports for the stalls but one was in the wrong place. We had discussed and measured it yesterday, but he had forgotten the door was going to be on the right side of the stall; he had positioned the post as if the door was going on the left. So poor Francis, had to take it down and redo it....oh well, better I found that out before he had gotten too much further.