Despite the rain

Even though I had to dodge rain showers all weekend, I did manage to get quite a bit done- but alas, no riding. Saturday I set up the electric fence around Rio's pasture- after tearing out the offending small section of barbwire!- and even managed to get the lawn mowed in between showers, and get some of the housework done. Sunday is a day of rest around here, and it was too wet to do much anyway. Today we got the electric fencer hooked up, and Rio got to go back on his modified pasture.

The panels are where the barbwire was, and I split the field in half, and ran the electric tape along the barbwire that separates his pen from the cow pasture. Ya I know, kinda like shutting the barn door after the horse is stolen.
Chickory is improving, I've been using my oils on her as well as the poultices. Even though I can't see any place where an abscess may have broken through, she is walking way better. Today I pruned some willow branches ( a good source of salicylic acid) and threw some in each of the horse pens, guess who was busy munching?

Belle gave up quickly, but Chickory just loved them. At first, Nitro though they were horse-eating branches, but then he became a horse, eating branches.
I got a lot of digging done today, moved a blackberry bush and developed the spot it was in for transplanting the new roses. Got a few "brown" shots for the next Sunday Stills- no, not dirt! And managed to get a really cool video of mama Raven feeding her getting-really-big-baby- Raven.

Tomorrow I'm going to get a photo from up the hill that shows the amount of water down here on the flats. I think there is some flooding just south of us, and I sure hope the diking system holds, or we'll be in trouble. It could quit raining any time now.