Cottage cladding and more fencing

The builders started cladding the cottage during the week. It's really starting to look like a wee house now. The windows are due to arrive on Tuesday so hopefully the cottage will be weather tight soon. There has been quite a bit of rain over the last couple of weeks and things are starting to get a bit soggy.

Chris spent the weekend doing some more fencing. He hired a post-hole borer for the weekend so despite the rain he was out there making the most of it! He put up two strands of electrobraid on Saturday, as well as all the inline posts and insulators. Sunday was spent finishing off the post and rail in the corners of the paddock surrounding the (eventual) shade trees. I tagged along on Sunday to "help" (passing nails and hammers and other such important duties), and to shift the horses to the new paddock once Chris had finished the post and rail corners.

The horses certainly enjoyed their new paddock and showed their satisfaction by proceeding to rip around at top speed. Their skid stops and vertical bucks, while spectacular, certainly weren't so good for the grass! Luckily they didn't test out the horse-safety properties of the electrobraid, however it was nice to know that if their brakes did fail they wouldn't hurt themselves (too much!). Crazy horses.