Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Barn Addition

We're getting some additions made to our barn right now, which includes an extended roof and a couple walls. These should make the barn more of a real shelter in all type of weather. Because as it is now, whenever the wind blows in all directions, along with snow or rain, the animals in the pens basically have no shelter.

So far the wall foundations are in the ground and we added our own decorations when the concrete was still wet. Some letter beads.
Some crystal stones.
Jenna walking along one of the wall's foundations. Sadly the interesting tree had to be trimmed for the roof extension. It rained last night and today and we had warmer temps. This melted all of the iron-hard, icy snow that fell over 2 weeks ago and has been hanging around ever since. It's nice not to have all that ice on the ground. But in it's place is lots of boot-sucking, gooey mud. Yuk.

2 comments :

Rising Rainbow said...

We have a problem here with overhangs not being as big as they should be. So will be doing a couple of additions to fix it. Our horses are dry, but we can't feed, water or clean without getting drenched or froze.

Laughing Orca Ranch said...

I know what you mean Rising Rainbow. Our overhang was so shallow, though, that when it was gusty (which is quite often) and snowy or rainy, the rain or snow would blow right onto the critters in the barn.
Now they are cozy and dry!

Good luck on the additions!

But wouldn't it be really nice to have a REAL barn....one with indoor aisles, draft-free, and a nice big grooming area...and a lounge? hehe
Dreaming.....