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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
One strand of fence works just fine as long as it is always on...you just can't leave it off for long periods, and you have to stay on top of making sure it's not down someplace.
We had one strand of hot wire for years just nailed to trees. It wasn't till I got lazy about keeping it hot that we got into trouble. One horse figured out he could go thru it and then even when it was hot we couldn't keep him in. That's when we got good fencing around the perimeter. I still just use one strand to divide the property inside the perimeter.
Becky
I think Bay would stay in it... I don't know about Cyn, but I think our pony would go over it or under it if there was just one wire. She's done that here, when I had a temp fence up for something or another.
Boy - and it didn't bother her at all that what she was asking was illegal as well as unethical? People continue to amazing me.
Oh the mares are looking so good. I think they'll be happy there.
Looks like the cats are warm and comfortable there - it's a cute picture.
Well yeah, when you have two horses with such a difference in size you would have to put up at least two.
Becky
Good picture! What are the houses way off behind you? Neighbors that you are friends with?
I gotta tell ya, duchess, I love your landscape pictures. So much exciting history where you are. Can't you just see the Donner party coming across, in their covered wagons pulled by oxen, everytime you look out at that lonely landscape? The hardship they endured is unfathomable. I know you're probably used to it but the pictures effect me in a weird way. I love mid to late 1800's history, I have lots of books about it but by golly, you're living right where some of the stuff I read about happened!
Do ya'll ever hunt for goodies with metal detectors? Any historical markers nearby?
Great picture, Duchess. Pretty little mare.
Bodie will come home Saturday. Kids get home after dark and the barn is about an hour's drive. A little bit of a breather, only having to deal with 3 of them for a few days.
We took a trip on ATV's to the Forty Mile Desert (about 45 minutes away) and to see what they had to cross was unbelievable. Found wood and oxen bones out there still from livestock lost and things left behind.
looking forward to pictures of Bodie.
I'm looking up "emigrant trail" for some pics. Do you live nearer the Appplegate Trail (says it starts at Lassen meadows in Nevada and ends in southern Oregon) or the Carson Trail (starts at the Humboldt Bar in Nevada, crosses the Sierra nevada at Carson Pass and ends in Pleasant Valley near Placerville, CA)
For awhile there, you could follow that trail in the dark from the oxen bones glowing as they decomposed.
I'm looking at http://www.emigranttrailswest.org
Awesome website!!
Hey, they deliver and the first 500 miles is free. I don't know how much they'd charge after that, but the price difference might make up for it. Just a thought.
Yeah, I picked the zoomed in version because I had my jammies on and my glasses and a serious case of bed-head because we had been sacked out watching TV for quite a while. Bear had managed to get his little tail-less butt right up under my chin so I had my hand over his butt just in case he felt the urge to fart on me. LOL, God bless him, he does that sometimes. But we were all quite warm and toasty, even if we were kinda pitiful. Here's the bigger picture...
Great picture Duchess! I'm glad we finally got to see you riding.
I got a little video clip for y'all that I took yesterday evening when I went to feed. Since it was a pretty day, I had turned Ol' Tennessee out that morning with his muzzle on so he could do some socializing with his buds. When I drove up to feed that evening, I found him standing guard near the end of the driveway. He raced me down the drive and met me at the gate, and that's where this video picks up. He had apparently been keeping an eye on my BIL's herd of pigs and had to come warn me about them. He's so funny sometimes, but I sure did enjoy seeing him feeling his oats and cutting up like that, especially since he could barely walk back last spring...
http://s124.photobucket.com/albums/p22/FrogInABlender99/?action=view¤t=IMG_0009.flv
I love it! You got one strong accent thar, girl. A true southerner, you are.
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