A Tale of Aladdin

Many of you will remember the childhood story of Aladdin and his magic lamp with the Genie inside who granted wishes. Well it appears I have my own Aladdin/Genie who grants wishes. I just seem to have to say the word and like the Cobbler and the Elves story, the next day my wish is granted. 

I decided this weekend that I would take the time and clean the tack room and sort things out from our spring arrival. I really hadn't organized or tidied it- just sort of dumped things in in. Mostly due to the horrible weather we have had has really not been conducive to hanging about and thinking of spring cleaning as the weather has been anything but spring-like. So I moved all the shelving units to the new feed room, and propped up a stainless steel counter top on them. Now I have a work surface for cutting the ever important carrots for night time feeds and measuring grain into feed tubs. The shampoo and tack cleaning supplies were rehomed onto the shelves. 

A dear young lady by the name of Emma McKenna did a charcoal sketch of Raphi last year and it has now found a home on the feed room door. Emma is the niece of my heart- for her mother although not my sister is like a sister to me, and has been all my life. Emma's mum calls my mum " aunty" and so she is most definitely family. Emma was 16 last year when she made the sketch. 

I have also started teaching another little lady named Laryssa- she is my new step-granddaughter.And so I decided that when helping her tack up we needed somewhere to hange the halter and prop the saddle while getting ready to ride. Hence my wishes- I wished I might have halter and saddle hooks and hey the next day, there the were. All made by hand with love. The left over horseshoe halter holders I made last year came to use  and new saddle racks were made that match the blanket holder. Now I can move my old metal saddle rack over to the tack cleaning hook so we have an area to that task in.

So here are pictures of those little additions- made with love by my very own Genie--- Francis. Will wonders never cease. He really does work magic around the place. 

This is them hanging when not  in use

Ready for the saddles!