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Related: About this forumFriday's Horses - Maddie and Pete and Green Grass. + Around The Farm
Laurie lets them out for an hour or so daily, adapting to
being back on pasture.
Time to graze.


After a bit, Maddie stopped, looking for a place to roll.

She found it.


Switching sides.

The blissfulness of a "joy roll".

She and Pete grazed their way to the far fence. Ran out
of good grass. Maddie decided to head back in.

Pete turned around, spotted his girl and raced to catch up.

They passed by the spot where Maddie had rolled.

She shed some winter hair that day.

Shadow watched from the barn, where she was tied up
due to her bad habit of chasing the horses.

"The kids" enjoyed a little more munching before returning to their pen.

And daddy freed his puppydog. We made our way back to the house.

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'Round The Farm ~
The last time we saw Laurie she had been getting down and dirty.

She had been cleaning out the last section of ditch.

Despite drudgery, she managed a smile a day earlier.

Once pipe was laid Laurie filled in this branch of the ditch.

Before the horses can gain access to the barn their portable corral
needs relocating. We rearrange panels by detaching and moving.

Fence panel clamps hold them together,.


Once she reaches a stopping point for the day Laurie calls
her ponies in for dinner.

Looking out at Pete through his almost-ready stall.

By the way, if you ever need any bailing twine let us know.
We've got lots of knots.

Thank You for your time. We'll see you next Friday.
Rhiannon12866
(256,710 posts)When I was a kid, I started riding at the local college and then spent six summer at a riding (and swimming) camp in Vermont. But then I got sent to boarding school in Massachusetts, no more horses. But I have such fond memories of the horses I got to know, still remember their names...
George McGovern
(12,311 posts)I'm glad for your fond memories. Horses have a way of forming a bond. Thank You!
gademocrat7
(11,973 posts)Thank you for sharing.
infullview
(1,133 posts)That blue crap is plastic and every time the bailer completes it leaves a small piece of this blue plastic crap on the ground.
GiqueCee
(4,416 posts)... is derived from petroleum, and petroleum is Mammon in the modern world. So Mammon bought out cordage producers that made baling twine and promptly ceased production so Mammon could charge farmers twice much money for the twine needed to bale hay. Now, most hay comes as a giant roll encased in... you guessed it, PLASTIC! And no one person can move a monster hay roll an inch, let alone lift one. You need a heavy tractor with a special fork to move one of 'em, and tractors run on gas or diesel fuel. Sooner or later, everything comes back to Mammon's greedy, gaping maw.
Chicagogrl1
(651 posts)We need the distraction!
brer cat
(27,617 posts)The horses will love their new spaces.
Walleye
(45,072 posts)I never knew horses are rolled around on the ground like dogs. Pretty cool.