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The Saddle-up 'Home'
Renovations
Until 2001,
our horses have been away at livery in the winter months. Then,
your editor's husband become an MFH - (I KNEW I shouldn't have taught him to jump!)
and I 'retired' from full-time employment. Horse numbers started
to increase!
So we
embarked on some renovations and extensions!
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This tumble-down lean-to building
wasn't much use! The wilderness area in front of it had been totally
neglected for 6 years (and wasn't too trim before that!)
Under the brambles
there was a lot of hardcore (and a sheep dip, and a broken down fence,
and ... who knows!)
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No - the picture's not
crooked - the uprights aren't (upright, that is.) And half the roof is
missing.
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This is the NEW view.
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The lean-to is seen above
from the yard-end:- it's a level below the barn where the existing
boxes are.
The view to the left is
taken from just outside the other short side (if there was a side!) up
the hill towards the house. (Now the site of our new manege.)
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And this was the view down the
yard.
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Under
that big clump of bramble, there was a sheep dip and some metal penning!
The big barn in the background (with lean-to) is in better shape, and
- two years on - now accomodates some new stabling.
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Henry (the 'rescue'
Springer) is not MEANT to be helping - but he jumps the garden fence!
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It would have been much easier to put a bulldozer through the
lot. But under the brambles there were too many 'hazards', not
least a water pipe that our 'tame farmer' ran down to the field he
used for his cattle - he didn't bother to bury it! So I've
been cutting 'firebreaks' around the worst clumps of bramble, dumping
the cut material on top along with any yard rubbish I could find, and
then having a bonfire.
To the right of the
picture, where the trees are, the ground falls away steeply to a
creek, so once it's clear we'll level it, and top it with extra
hardcore and it should stay quite dry.
Of course, we (I) have
got about six weeks to do all this in - will we (I) make it!
Update: We didn't
(make it!) But that was o.k. as things changed, hunting under
license was introduced and the horses went to the kennels or to the
livery yard. The stable renovation plans were put 'on hold' for
better weather. See latest here.
[ Up ] [ Outdoor Manege ] [ Pasture Management ] [ Drainage ] [ Fencing ] [ Renovations ] [ Renovations-1 ] [ Renovations-2 ] [ Renovations-3 ] [ Renovations-4 ]
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