Relative Something

Since our project of creating the fences and horse space has crept beyond the budget we initially envisioned, we are in the grips of trying to find a way to complete this phase and have a functional containment area, with ability to expand into future ultimate design. It doesn’t make sense to just stop, leaving the things we started half-complete, so we are hoping to bring things to a logical resting point, as efficiently as possible.

We walked the property last night to review possible locations for a planned second round pen, and an arena. Knowing the location for the arena is good, because it will influence the overall plan, but we don’t need to build it until sometime in the future. We also reviewed the zones for hay-field, and grazing, as recommended by recent visits from knowledgeable consultants from the county extension office. Changes in the way we were seeing the hay and grazing areas are impacting the fencing we were envisioning, which is causing us a problem in trying to complete the current phase of work.

We don’t know where the fence should go! Cyndie and I think we know where we would like it to go, but it is beyond the scope of the current plan now underway. Our challenge is to find a way to close the fence line around the old hay-field. Now that the paddocks are built, the fence crew has moved on to driving posts for that project.

At this point, I am leaning toward cashing in some assets to free funds to extend the fence to what we ultimately want. It just doesn’t make sense to run a fence through the middle of our potential new hay-field zone, just because there used to be one there and it is the shortest route. Maybe we could do it with a temporary fence.

We are mulling options.

And pulling hair.

Gnashing teeth.

Typical spousal financial negotiations. It’s not nearly as fun as the dreaming of fantastic visions part.