New Lawn Care Service

Meet the new lawn care crew for our yard, well... it's just temporary, but I keep looking at the window enjoying the sight of 5 beautiful horses, munching on the over grown lawn we have thanks to all of the rain last week from the system that came though and dropped 4 1/2 inches on us in 36 hours.

My respite from the cooler days of Septem-brrr have gone and left me, it was 89 here yesterday and SO humid from all of the rain. At least we needed it, it had been a bit dry this summer and we are behind the average rain fall for the year, so at least it is needed.

On Friday, when I was coming home from taking Robbie to school I drove by the area where they are logging. Seems the time of year, this is the 4th area they have logged around us in the past month, anyway, I come to the stop sign and look over to the corner that the log trucks are in and and low and behold, I see a truck sunk in mud up to it's wheel axle. Wish I had a camera for that one. There was another truck that was trying to pull it out and it looked like it was about to go under as well, in talking to a neighbor later I heard it had as well. Shows you how much rain we got I guess.

Oh, to get back to the new lawn care specialists. Sorry, I got side tracked!
It was so hot and humid out yesterday that my husband opted not to mow the grass as he had planned, along about 3:00, we look out in our back yard and as we have had before in the past 18 months that we have lived here, we had a break out from the neighbors fence and had 2 horses busily eating away in our yard. Here is one picture of them before the deal was worked out. As you can see, they are a bit on the skinny side.

Robbie jokingly called out the window the our neighbor when she came to catch the run aways that it was OK to leave them to eat, since the grass had gotten so tall and it was too hot and humid to mow. She comes to the door and asks if we are serious and we tell her it's fine, as long as she cleans up after them, which of course she was agreeable to.

In the time we talked I learned that she has been approved to be a horse rescue farm and had 3 new horses that were abused and were skinny and unkempt, as the picture above shows. These 2 were so hungry, they wanted more then they were getting and found the way out the gate with out much effort and came over to where the grass was greener. So anyway, the deal she offered us was fine with us as long as it's the back yard we don't use at all and she does her part and cleans up after them. Taking on the new horses has cost them much more then they expected and the feed and hay expense is really getting to them, so if nature can provide free nutrition for these guys, why not work with them and allow them to have at it, while it's available before it stops growing.

The deal is that they will fence off an area for 24 hours and allow the horses to work on the tall grass, then move the fence over to a new area and while they are working on the new area, she and her husband will clean up any 'fertilizer' and then mow what they didn't eat and bag it for later, and when the front gets tall enough they will mow and bag that to feed to them, instead of having it trampled and roughed up being it's our front yard. We said it was fine and would see how it goes. So for now, this is 4 of the 5 yard care specialist we have doing our ground work!

Aren't they a sight to enjoy? For now anyway, lets hope it doesn't turn into a regret of decisions! I don't think it will be, I'm pretty sure they will hold up their end of the bargain, the horse sure are!