Monofilament

After getting kids to school, I went outside to help Tia with some chores, and spend a few minutes with her. I don't do that enough, especially with our busy lives, and while we split chores a lot to get things done, it's nice to actually spend a few minutes with her.

So I sat out there, but then walked around resetting GFCI breakers when I saw we still were missing one circuit. It finally occurred to me today, after a week of issues, that there might be a breaker in the shed, and there was. We have power again for now.

Then I spread hay, we let the horses out in front and I closed the gate while Tia cleaned up after grain. After that I harrowed around and pulled down some tape fencing that was a mess while she got manure up from the runs. Definitely a manure day. And with 60F, it was nice enough to take advantage of the day.

Our fence guy showed up then. As much as I'd like to fix fence, I don't have time to do it. So last week we paid them $1000 to replace about a dozen posts around the property that were broken, including some destroyed ones in the arena that I definitely didn't want to do.

Then today they were back to do the North side, put up vinyl wire to get around the barbed wire that's there. We've wanted to do something, but just haven't had time to tackle it. The guy came in and was asking if we had more of the high tensile vinyl wire that we use everywhere else. We have this PVC wire that is solid vinyl, so it's safer for the horses. Unfortunately it breaks more than I'd like.

It's also hard to find. Most places don't carry it and when the fence guy and Tia came in, we couldn't find it on the web at first. I remembered it was hard to find the first time and I spent time over a few days before it occurred to me to change my search terms. Same thing today, but after about 15-20 minutes I realized I needed to search for "monofilament"

:)