Right after breakfast this morning, I looked out the kitchen picture window and saw a horse in the middle of my flower garden! He was just standing there, looking back at me! I knew there was a horse farm down the road a little ways, but didn’t know the name of the people who owned it. So I called the few neighbors that I do know and asked them if they knew who owned the horse farm. Eventually I got the phone number, and called them and asked them if they were missing a horse. They said yes, and I told them that it was in my yard. They came right down to get the horse back, but the horse wanted to play hard to get! It took them a while to rope the horse and take him home. It was rather amusing to watch the horse toy with them as they tried to catch him! He would trot just far enough out of their reach and stop and look at them, then they would get closer to him and he would trot a little distance again. I could almost hear the horse laughing to himself!
It’s a good thing I like to work out in the yard! We have had so much rain lately that the grass is growing by leaps and bounds! Thankfully I have a great riding mower with zero turn radius and a bagger attachment that holds a lot of grass clippings!
This is the first year that I have decided to really try my hand at composting. Sure, we’ve had a garbage heap in the back woods where we just threw our table scraps, but I’ve never added leaves, clippings, or manure to it faithfully and bothered to turn it. I’ve just not bothered withit! It was just a garbage heap! I’d like to buy one of those barrels that you turn once a week and use that to make good compost. The soil around here could use some good compost to make it more fertile!
