I can see clearly now...

..rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way! And there are many!!

The main contractor has moved on to a new project so we are left with doing many of the finishing touches ourselves. Concrete should be poured early this week for the tack room, grooming stalls, lounge, and patio. I will hopefully get the grit rock necessary for the arena within the next couple days.

The pictures show the stalls (which are the most beautiful things ever!!) the arena and the tackroom. Cool huh??

And now for the details.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, our wait is almost over. All major construction is complete. Now we have to build the stalls, tack room, lounge, arena walls, put the footing in, pour the rest of the concrete, run the gutters, get the electric and plumbing done, and then we are done!!!!

Here is my "post forest" where the stalls are going to be. We are waiting on the thicker rough cut lumber to do the back and side walls of the stalls.

Do you think the horses would mind dodging piles of lumber? Here is the arena as it is today. We still have a little way to go, but the end is in sight now. Stay tuned!!

Celebrate!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLUE MOON STABLES!!!!

We have come a long way in a year and we have a lot to show for it!

I would like to thank everyone for being so supportive through the good times and the extremely slow times. This has been a windy road but it is so worth it!!

Pictures tomorrow.

Stacy

Doors and More!

Elvis fans, sing it with me: In the cold Kentucky rai-yay-yay-yay-yain! Maybe we should be building an arc instead of a barn!!! Fortunately the weather inside the barn is quite dry, so work has progressed steadily all week. We have all the sliding doors installed, rough cut lumber between the arena and the storage area/tack room, concrete boundaries set, post holes for stall posts, and dirt work in the arena > 80% done. Whew!!!!

We also have identified the new Mascot for Blue Moon Stables.........

The Blue Moon Stables Zebra!!!!!! MEREDITH

It's close to being enclosed...

Hi all- We had a nice steady work week which is something we have not had since the middle of January. The pictures were taken last night. You can see the cupolas and looking through the end door, you can see the west wall is almost complete. The bottom picture shows the walk out porch from the lounge and the doorways for the shop on the end. Early next week we should have stall posts, doors, and plywood starting to go up for the arena. Lots of smiles here!!! Where are the comments??? I so enjoy reading them!!!

Noir

Work has continued all week and I will take pictures today and post them. Here are some pictures and a video that my mom took while she and my dad were down here for a long weekend last week. Miss Meredith and the "rotten pony" Noir keep getting cuter and cuter.

Here is Riley on Fuzzy. Meredith took this picture (seriously!) last week during Riley's lesson. Lunge line lessons have helped Riley find new sense of balance on her horse.

It's been a while.....

It has been almost a month since my last post. For a while there, we had a real hard time getting anything done on the barn. We had similar trouble getting horses ridden and lessons given!
Work on the barn resumed briefly last Monday and then the rain for the history books started in that night. Here in Geneva we had between 8 and 9 inches in a 36 hour period. Everyone in the tri-state area had torrential rains and severe flooding. Fortunately, our farm is elevated above the flood plains here and does not have standing flood waters. It was just VERY miserable for man and beast here. The new building filled up with water again but this time it did not stay very long. The contractor and Chad had done some dirt work to maximize drainage away from the building, and also the ground is not frozen any longer - that was part of our problem earlier.

The picture above is the road leading to our house on Saturday. The Ohio River was above flood stage and we get "wet" like this from time to time. It never was too deep to drive a truck though and it has already receded from the road. We have had quite a tormenting 3 months weatherwise, and we all hope it is going to get back to normal (whatever that is!!) soon.

The holiday weekend pushed the next work day to yesterday (Monday) and it continued today. The picture shows the WONDERFUL progress outside my back door!! You can imagine the mood change around here when there is a leap in scenery like that!!!

It looks more like a barn now, don't you think? The west side of the barn is the only side that is not started and I assume they will get it going tomorrow. Once that is done, we can start dirt work in the arena. Yipppeeeeee!!!!!!!

That is all for now, I will update daily if it is warranted, so check back soon. I love reading the comments!!! I hope everyone is well and enjoying the rejuvenating effects of Spring as much as we are.