| I am sore tonight! This soreness is all because of | | | | that night using our good trees! It is full of fish though! |
| ambition! | | | | At least, that is what I heard. I have been too busy to |
| We decided that we wanted horses. You know, a | | | | go fishing. |
| horse farm, in the country, with rolling fields of deep | | | | We are beginning to understand the snickers and |
| green grass; a handsome barn, full of sweet smelling | | | | laughs we get when people find out what we are |
| hay and shavings for the stalls. The barn would have a | | | | doing with the farm. How much work can it be to |
| separate room for the well-oiled and well-worn | | | | design, lay out and build a 36 foot by 84 foot barn that |
| saddles and tack so we could throw the saddle on | | | | has 10 stalls, office, tack room, hay storage, wash rack |
| and go for a ride whenever we desired. | | | | and feed room. You mean we have to wash these |
| Of course, we would also probably need a round pen | | | | horses too? |
| to exercise and train, and maybe a lunging pen when | | | | On the other hand, the benefits are all there. We are |
| needed. The lake on the farm would be clear and | | | | getting in shape! We are not frivolously wasting our |
| deep, full of fish, with a nice stream flowing away | | | | money on something silly like a vacation! Ian, the eleven |
| down to keep the bubbling creek running. | | | | year old and Ryan at four are learning the joys of |
| OK, so we got what we wanted. Only it isn’t | | | | working as a family! We are all experiencing the joys |
| quite like the dream. For starters, the field is a little | | | | of being out in the great outdoors. |
| overgrown with pine scrub, and weeds that have | | | | All kidding aside the lesson comes home again as it did |
| grown into trees with thorns! I don’t remember | | | | when we were building the sailboat we would live on |
| ever seeing briars an inch thick before! | | | | and sail for over seven years — ambition has a |
| Somehow the rain runoff has managed to create | | | | price. In my opinion there is no question the price is well |
| these red clay gulleys in the fields that have to be filled | | | | worth it. |
| in before the horses are delivered so they don’t | | | | After dinner, we sat out on the two story deck and |
| break their legs. Oh, and the barn. Well, we still have to | | | | looked out over the field we had spent the day |
| build it! | | | | clearing. The brush bonfire was still burning down, and |
| The lake is there! The only downside is the beavers | | | | the stars and the moon were our in the clear night in all |
| that seem to love all trees except the briars and thorn | | | | their glory. As we sat out there as a family and talked |
| trees. They do a great job of building dams with our | | | | about what was to come, there was a clear |
| nice trees that they cut down during the night while we | | | | consensus from all — we wouldn’t have |
| sleep. They were cute when we got here, but it gets a | | | | it any other way. |
| little old tearing out dams and having them built back | | | | What is your dream? |