Cookie helping hold up one end of the tarp.
Cookies deciding that holding it up this way was a better idea.
AJ, our Mustang, holding down her end of the tarp.
Cookie looking for what I need to secure one end of the tarp to a tree.
"Is this is what you are looking for?"
Caught red handed eating the Gator seat. Now you know why they seats look they way they do.
Hoody Dude looking for a bungee cord.
Between all the starts and stops thanks to donkeys and horses helping ( or running off with items), I finally managed to hang the last two remaining tarps out in the pastures. With any luck the winds won't be too bad, the horses and donkeys will stay dry and I will be able to sleep knowing they are out of the rain.
Until next time......................
The weather forecast is calling for rain starting this weekend. And we need the rain. However since I had to take down my portable stall unit there is no place for the horses and donkeys to get out of the rain except for what little cover the trees provide. It bothered me knowing there wasn't a dry area for them so I used my imagination and made some redneck shelters. Armed with tarps, bailing twine and my trusty Gator, out to the back pasture I went. Those blue tarps are really ugly, but they do the job as far as keeping things dry.
After choosing which tarp was going to be tied to certain trees the job began. I was only able to get two shelters up today. Tomorrow two more will go up.
The donkeys followed me tree to tree while I was standing on the Gator tying each tarp end. I couldn't tell you how many times I had to stop what I was doing and retrieve an item or two those silly donkeys walked off with.
Arnold decides to be the first to go under one of the shelters.
Seeing that Arnold made it through okay, Mike followed. Pearl is in the background making sure that the shelter wasn't a donkey eating monster.
Seeing that Arnold and Mike made it just fine, Pearl deemed it safe enough and walked on through.
Now I feel better knowing that there are some type of shelters for the horses and donkeys when the rain starts. They look mighty redneck, but at this point I don't care, so long as they keep everyone dry.
Until next time......................................
