I wish I'd started this blog right from the day we moved here, that way I'd be able to tell you all the funny mishaps that we went through each day. Believe me, there were a lot.
We used some old logs from the property to build the frame, and then bought the supplies to do the rest. Using the logs was a great way to recycle materials that were already here, and we liked the idea of keeping the shelter as natural as possible. Horses do have a tendency to chew on things, lol, so we thought why not give them trees as posts. Of course we took the bark off and smoothed them out. That was a challenge on it's own!
We didn't have any fancy tools, so we did everything by hand. It took us days to strip the bark and smooth out the logs, and as you can see, the boys got super creative when it came to installing them in the ground! lol. What we didn't find out until nearly a year later was that our geothermal pipes ran along the very same area we built the shelter, yikes! Luck was definitely on our side as we somehow managed not to hit a single pipe.
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| The kids helped after school. |
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| We even recruited family to help when they came to visit :) |
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| Libby was very helpful... |
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| ...as was Ruby |
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| They made sure Mike was doing a good job, offering pointers as he worked. |
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