#coursebuilding

[jaxanderson]

Working from a coffee shop again today. Slow WiFi, but delish muffins. #confessionsofthepsykotherapist #psykotherapist #mentalhealthcounselor #unfxckyourself #coursebuilding

[whichchick]

I took Bird out for a spin yesterday -- weather was kinda nice and the snow has mostly melted enough to get a horse out and ride around a bit.  He was a bit giddy due to being out and about but eventually settled into work.  Spring cannot get here too soon for me.

After that, I spent some time working on my xc course, which is currently sodden as hell.  I got the bucketloader out and redid the log pile (now probably 2′6″ because it’s terrifyingly huge) and moved the two smaller logs over to the ditch.  I also got together most of the brush that I wanted burned and burned it.  

The path across the creek is now clear to the other side of the creek -- I’m ready to start neatening that up (a chainsaw will be involved plus I need to move two stumps) and if the snow cover ever goes away I can continue getting rocks for the second rock wall.  I’m not sure that I need to build retaining walls for the creek bank -- a human can step across the creek if reasonably careful -- and I’d like to keep this as low-effort/low-expenditure as possible.

It’s seriously getting to be time to consider research, building and storage of portable fences.  I’m going to need some portables to fill in the rest of the course because it’ll be on the regularly-mown yard and the fences can’t stay there all the time.  And I’m going to need a place to put them when we’re not using them.

Right now, there are six and a half fences.  Logpile, hanging log, other hanging log, partially-built trak. over ditch, creek jump, partially-built stone wall, culverts, partially built step.  I have two more trees I have to cut down (They’re already dead, people, and they are shitty pine trees I can’t even use for firewood.  I am not wasting live trees for this project.) and I need some ideas for variety.

Also Theron came down and set the beaver traps.  There’s at least one on the other side near Morgret’s and we’d like to exterminate it.  It’s dammed up a creek and killed two large pine trees by drowning... unfortunately they’re where the ground is way, way, way too wet to get machinery in place so they’re just gonna stay there, standing dead instead of seeing a useful and productive second life as xc fence material.

[oldgreygelding]

Course - 2 stride skinny to upright, 1 stride through the parallel to upright on the angle, turn-back to the parallel and then the skinny line in reverse. Imaginative course building for me! Pete jumping well but not loving the arena surface at the moment…