Wrecked

Dave and I have been going non-stop this weekend:

Saturday, the farrier was out to trim the horses' feet in the morning, so we groomed them first then started raking the front lawn while one grazed and the other was trimmed, then vice versa.  At 12:30 we put them back in the roundpen then flew into town so we could still get the stickers for the CRV's license plate before they closed at 1:00.  Had a quick lunch then picked up some hay cubes at TSC and headed home.  Spent the rest of the afternoon raking along the fence line in the backyard and I burned a ring of leaves on the driveway until my fire went out because the leaves were too wet.

We had a bit of a grace period today - they were predicting 30 mms of rain to fall throughout the day and are still saying high winds are on the way, but so far it's been minimal in both regards.  I re-stacked the hay in the garage so that I could get to my snow tires (silly of me to store those behind the bales this summer!) and then went out back and helped Dave rake the rest of the backyard while the horses grazed on it with us.  We've probably raked 2 acres by hand now (with 3 more to go) in the last 2 days - my kingdom for a riding mower that works!  It's so much easier when you can just hook the tarp up to the back of the mower, rake the leaves onto the tarp, then drive it over to the creek and let it compost on the banks!  Far more difficult to burn and take wheel-barrows full to the creek instead!

I'm tired and every muscle in my body aches this afternoon.  Still doing laundry and have to make eggplant parmesan yet tonight!