Life is pretty muchly never boring on a farm.
Case in point: my 18 year old suddenly decided that he wanted a Mustang. Being the slightly OCD individual that he is, his want very quickly became a need.
He spent every spare moment looking at horses online. Reading up on the different herds & their history. The workings of the Mustang Act & the BLM. He pretty quickly became an expert in all things wild horse.
And he reminded us daily, sometimes hourly, that he needed his pony.
First things first, in order to adopt a Mustang one must have the appropriate facilities. These include a six foot high pen, at least 20x20 ft with a 3 sided shelter.
As money is most definitely an object, we needed to figure out the most economical way of accomplishing this corral.
It was really one of those totally cool God things where He just seemed to provide us with everything we needed at just the right time.
We were able to buy 3 bundles of older lumber from the sawmill next door to us for $30. Out of that we got all of the boards we needed for the corral & the shelter frame.
We had several posts on the property which we were able to repurpose for our project. We did have to buy concrete to set our posts & that cost us $20.
At this point my son was stressing spending the money to buy tin to side & roof the shelter.
Here's one of those God things: our friends were preparing to sell their place & divesting themselves of their inventory~ some of which they brought over for us. Which "coincidentally" included enough tin to both roof & side our shelter (cue the Hallelujah chorus).
The only other items we needed to purchase were the hardware for the gate, bringing the total for the entire corral to $100.
(patting myself on the back)
And since the whole world obviously wants to know how & what we did I TOOK PICTURES!
(You're shocked I know)
So the next installment is when we actually get our Mustang.
Stay tuned!
Blessings.
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