Paddocks

Monday was an horrendously busy day (yes, that’s right, I used the British “an” before a word starting with “h”. How classy is that?!)

As I said, horrendously busy, as is to be expected following a drill weekend coming right on the heels of family vacation, complicated by everyone being sick, one after another. Monday was taken up with school (thanks to Mommy who managed to get the school schedules planned out over the weekend, while taking care of sick kids, not having Daddy around to help, and still managing to make meatballs for Lord’s Day!) Baking, the usual laundry and housecleaning, plus violin. When all was said and done, the only task we were able to accomplish on the farm was setting up paddocks for the cows and sheep. Even that was not completely finished.

The electric netting was set up, the shademobile was moved into the first paddock, and the water was moved and filled. However, I didn’t get time to hook it to the electric fence and move the animals into it, because I had to run to get Evie to violin.

As it turns out, just as well. The wind kicked up a bit that night and when Uncle went out to move the cows the next morning he found that their shade mobile had been flipped over.

As you can see, the wind flipped it on its side and apparently slid it 40 feet across the paddock into the boundary fence. And this is why it is over-braced and over-engineered. Flip it back on its wheels, no harm no foul. Still, on nights when we are looking at gale force winds, it might be worthwhile to take the tarp off of it. Maybe I’ll look into a way to make it more easily detachable (currently zip-tied).