"Mowing" the Lawn

When you have animals, mowing the lawn means so much more than just pushing a mower around. It's a carefully set up series of fences and ropes to keep animals contained in an area you need mowed. When we first got the sheep for weed control, we kept them in the front pasture. Worked like a charm, kept them from meandering away from the weeds and they ate down all the star thistle (nasty, nasty weed!).

Since we rid ourselves of star thistle, we seeded the field with grass seed to create 'free' food for the animals. More or less. We let it grow for a long time then finally released the animals to get to it. Uncle G and Aunt J recently sold their horses. As a result, their fields are growing out of control. Following our clean-up that day, we loaded the horses (we left Henry behind...he's large, hard to haul, would require a second trip, and would be coming back in just a couple weeks for a party anyway...to name a few reasons) into the trailer and took them over to Uncle G's.

In we go.


Haven't been loaded in almost a year and no hesitation. Actually...


Rocky had second thoughts about getting out.


But he got over it. He's a fine looking beastie.


When Yuma got out, Rocky started following.


And away they go.


They both look great.


I love these boys.


Here they come!


Yuma couldn't wait to dig in.


Neither could Rocky.


Safe to say, they won't be going hungry. It comes up to my knees.

FFR