first fire in the pit

gorgeous Monday morning

I got busy in the garage first thing putting the final coat on the dining table Once table was dry, I enlisted Britt's muscles to help me move it inside, choosing to come the the front doors. She also helped me get another dresser down off the stack to get to work on, thanks B!

This dresser is another 70's? with an arborite top and sides but full wood frame and drawers. I lightly sanded it all then gave it a good scrub and filled the top areas leaving it to dry. Time to stage the table and get staging help, here are a couple of the best pics.

Britt only has 1 shift this week, it sure does not make paying bills and saving for a year at college very good. She also has a lesson to pay off so begrudgingly she headed out in the glorious sunshine and scooped a load of horse poop from front paddock. This was not in her realm of chores but after chugging a "ceasar" she was game to trim trees. We hooked up the poop bucket to the quad so she could dump at pit then she and I went to the chokecherry trees to get a lesson. After the first load was cut and dumped, she was on her own as I hiked back to the house picking road weeds as I went.

She got a big pile of bug nests chopped and when Sheldon arrived home just before 5, he changed and set them afire. She went back to trimming trees while he started grading the road and around "saddledome". I was weeding and watering and feeding my ponies the spoils before getting a hot dog tray ready.

Time to start the first fire in the pit, totally up Sheldon's alley even though it was 25 degrees out. He got it going and pondered with a couple beers. Britt pulled in just before 7 from her tree mission to enjoy the roasted hot dog supper!

 a which way works best to roast hot dogs was set

 I think both worked

round two for one and 3 for the other.. lol

After this maiden burn and relax we all dispersed; B and I went to condition Bird, KD and Switch while Sheldon resumed the road grading. I followed up my ride trimming Hawk's long feet, poor guy, he is not having his usual attention this year with miss Switch in training. Sheldon sprayed the trees yet again for pests.

Time for all to shower up as Shaina was coming after work to spend the night, we had not seen her for a month!! Sheldon even managed to stay up to say hi ;)