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