That's right, folks... we're moving. Bags, boxes, cats, horses & all. To Kansas. Sunny & co have a few more weeks in SD while we finish packing & get things horse-proofed. We haven't set departure-day yet, but it's looming.
The house here is a disaster. It's amazing how much stuff one can cram into a not very big house - and since the one we're moving into is smaller, down-sizing isn't just a nice idea, it's a necessity. I'm hoping that once everything is finally pitched, donated or packed I'll be finding more L-ove in my M-ove. Right at the moment I'd just take a sufficiency of boxes the right size!
On the positive side of moving, the new place is an acreage and we'll finally have the horses at home. There's one big pasture already fenced that will do fine for this winter, and a stone run-in shed/barn with a good roof. And a couple smaller spaces that lack fence but will work with
temporary electric for day-time grazing until we can get permanent fence
up. We'll have some fence work to do - mostly cutting trees back - but for now we'll be able to run electric on the inside of the existing fence.
In the meantime, life continues - between getting everything we want to get done here accomplished before the weather turns, and getting the new place move-in ready, there hasn't been much quality pony-time going on. Today we took Rufus to get shoes and Sunny got a trim. A dual-purpose visit, as the farrier was at Eric's and we could check in on Amyra and Thunder.
Rufus stood nicely for his turn. Sunny was not as cooperative, although he did have the excuse of a very rambunctious horse playing in the indoor arena directly behind him. After the third time we'd been peppered by flying chunks of dirt, Eric retrieved Jackson, who was having way to much fun racing around, bucking and snorting.
The word is that Thunder was initially leery, but is coming along. He's unsure of strange men, so that didn't surprise me. After Rufus and Sunny were done and back at the trailer, I went back in to check on Thunder - his stall is very close to the crossties we were using. Sunny had walked in and out without any sign of being aware Thunder was there, but Thunder was anxiously watching down the aisle where Sunny had disappeared. It was sad.
Other than being anxious at having been deserted by his buddy yet again, Thunder looks good and was definitely happy to be rubbed and have his itchy spots scritched. T visited Amyra while I made nice with Thunder, and then we loaded up and headed out.
Hopefully I'll get back over soon and be able to take some pictures of all this progress he's making! In the meantime, back to my boxes.
2 comments:
Sad to hear you're leaving, but I envy you getting to abandon this awful climate! You are going to keep blogging from Kansas, right?
That's the plan - thanks for asking :) We don't have anything hooked up down there just yet, but at least one carrier says we're not in a good service area and not in a dial-up or a dead zone, so fingers crossed we'll have internet!
Not looking forward to the summers down there, but I am kind of liking the idea of less snow - lol :)
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