A few weekends ago we began to move the portable horse stalls we set up here at the house to the new set up across the road from the house…last weekend we decided to move the hay/feed room.
With running a small business during the week and currently remodeling the exterior part of the house etc…often our weekends are when we do ranch chores.
In the spring especially, the ranch requires lots of TLC…we spray weeds and burn weeds…clean up around the buildings and along the roads…drag pastures as well as drag the gravel driveways around the ranch complex…fix fences, gates and sprinklers if needed…clean the barn, saddles and corrals…work up the dirt in the arena into nice soft un-clumpy dirt…lots of this and that type things.
There are not enough hours in a day for either Wild Bill or me from about February until maybe December and then we have the holiday rush!
“Wait…Hey Mr. Sun…you can’t leave me now…come back I need more daylight please!!!”
We began the process of dismantling stuff and I had gone to the house to grab some water for us to drink and my camera…I glanced out my kitchen window as I walked by and I saw this! We had moved the two stalls by taking them apart the weekend before…and Wild Bill…now you can see why he is known as “Wild Bill”…decided there were too many screws in the hay/feed room to take it apart sooooo…he was Wild Billing it!
“Uh honey, we are blocking off the road and it looks like you are beginning to slide down the embankment…which means you are likely going to roll the tractor and the feed room is chained to it so it will follow you!!! What are you #### doing!!!”
Yikes the tractor is sliding…ok I can’t watch this…no I have to watch this…”WB…there has to be a way to do this different #### !!!”
“Wild Bill get off the tractor!” The gravel and ground is sliding terribly!
Somehow WB, “Wild Billed it”…saving himself, the tractor and the feed room! Maybe it was me falling to the pavement kicking…screaming with a few swear words and praying hard!
Ta-da! Almost to the right spot! Aussie dog Dasher is supervising!
And then WB tries one more time to tip it over! I think he likes to give me a heart attack or something just to see if I am watching!
The new stalls are across the road from where they were before…this was a distraction picture as I was trying to not look at WB and the feed room that was trying to tip over!
Buck is munching away on the nice green pasture grass…soon the big irrigation guns will be watering the pastures again with having the new well:) “Psssst Buck…look at WB…the feed room is tipping!”
“Uh you mean the hay room…the feed room with the treats in it?” Buck was worried too!!! He loves that room!
Well we got it all moved without tipping something over and without yelling too much…just a few rather loud cuss words:) The feed room looks good…next we will re-assemble the stalls with a pen in front for a run and dry lot. I think they will like it better…more to do and not as boring.
Yes….we had more rain on Monday. Sunday had been beautiful…today it is semi cloudy and cold. I want warm days with sunny sunshine:) If you look close you can see the field down the road with the yellow hue to it. That is Canola…when you use Canola Oil this is how the farmers grow the seeds. I will get a better picture of it this week to show you.
Have a peaceful evening and a great week!!!
Hot Rod Cowgirl 
May 25, 2012 @ 13:13:37
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May 25, 2012 @ 15:03:38
Thank you for nominating me for this award:) I am honored and humbled. You made my day for sure:) Thank you alos for reading my blog…I am blessed that you enjoy what I write:) Wishing a super weekend:)
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May 04, 2012 @ 16:50:32
It looks like it’s going to be a very beautiful home! Ann
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May 04, 2012 @ 21:06:29
Thank you so much Ann…one of my Aunts was an Ann….she was my second Mom:) If you ever get to the USA…and to Oregon…let me know as I would love to host you here…we have lots of room…you are welcome anytime….
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May 04, 2012 @ 22:18:44
Million thanks! The same for you in Sweden, I would really like to meet you and couyld do a little sight seeing!
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May 04, 2012 @ 22:31:58
Me too…with you:) And I want to visit Sweden and Norway…Finland too…so lets get this figured out:)
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May 04, 2012 @ 22:40:21
Yep! :)))
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May 04, 2012 @ 22:47:44
Yeppers:):)
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May 03, 2012 @ 16:15:45
As always …. LOVE the pictures. I can relate though to everyday being a work day. Life has been super crazy around here. Trying to get back in and catch up on folks.
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May 03, 2012 @ 21:03:44
Thank you:) and thanks for stopping in and I wondered where you went…I know for us as soon as the weather gets nice…then we hit the floor running. Have a great night and I do love your life of being able to go to the beach when you want…I love that:)
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May 03, 2012 @ 15:54:12
Rolling on the floor with this one.
Things are just done differently on a farm or ranch…the creative way we reorganized things…nothing like a hitch on a pick-up or a tractor. Loved this part “this was a distraction picture as”…that’s like when my mom would just go in the house and not watch!
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May 03, 2012 @ 21:00:57
Am so glad you liked this post or should I say got this post….yeah huge yeah we do things a bit different out in the country…I call it the just do it nerve or where there is a way we will find it and do it…I know I wanted to go to the house too but I was suppose to be helping him as I could…when the tractor was sliding I was like “oh sh**”….then when the stall began tipping it was “Hello Houston…we have a serious problem here”…it is always so much fun too with each other….that is the part as to why your Mom would go to the house…I used to just hate it when WB and I had to gather cows together!
Thanks so much for your support:)
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May 03, 2012 @ 12:09:49
Sounds like a lot of work. I’m exhausted just reading about it. But that sunset at the end . . . just gorgeous.
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May 03, 2012 @ 14:06:14
I know me too whew:) Thank you:)
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May 03, 2012 @ 08:44:05
Absolutely gorgeous shots! Sounds like you have been very busy too! 🙂
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May 03, 2012 @ 10:20:09
Thank you so much on your comment about the shots:) I am hoping this week to get out and shoot some various shots around the area as all the fields right now are turning green and growing the crops so it is pretty every direction you look. Yeah spring is always a busy time of year for sure!
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May 03, 2012 @ 05:31:02
Wow – I’m tired just reading all the stuff you & WB do!! And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched Motor Man doing something and just known that it was going to end in disaster. And every time, he pulled it off!
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May 03, 2012 @ 10:18:02
Me too with WB…I often want to say no don’t do that but have learned over the years to keep my mouth shut most of the time…last weekend was hard as I could see the tractor sliding and knew what could happen…scary…and thankfully he had the traction to get out of it:) Motor Man and Wild Bill sound like they could be buddies or brothers with what they do and also how they live their lives…and we could share a bottle of wine as we watch them do something:) LOL:)
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May 03, 2012 @ 04:21:46
Never a dull moment out there on the ranch with WB, his tractor, and the horses (and you) looking on with crossed fingers!!! Looking very springy though – and no doubt as you wind up working on the exterior of the house, you’ll be so happy to have things DONE.
Pam (and Sam)
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May 03, 2012 @ 10:14:32
Between the business and the ranch it keps us on our toes this time of year. Yes finally things turned green and right now this is one of the prettiest times of the year here…during the foggy cold winter days you tend to wonder why you live here and then spring comes and you are reminded that this is why:) As all the fields turn green and grow the crops it is a carpet of beauty everywhere you go. We have a rain day today but being the farm girl, I am not complaining….hope you have a great day and Minnie says yeah:)
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