Mud. Lots of mud.

I have no idea what happened. Basically overnight, our entire dirt part of the pastures is like a foot deep of mud. Grass areas have been turned into complete swamps. And get this, it hasn't even rained very much. Everything is so gross. The manure pile area has had a TON of drain off, so the paddocks are basically pools of red water, from the crap and urine. Its so freaking nasty. The barn is leaking. Everything is soaking wet. What the FREAK happened?

Its so weird. Its supposed to get to be 90 degrees tomorrow though, so hopefully it will dry up. Right now we're just worried about the smell [I'm serious, its like ammonia inducing] and the possibility of the horses getting mud fever, or running in the mud and slipping.

When it dries out, we're going to have a TON of work to do. Me and Allison, and hopefully my mom and dad, will pick up all the crap. My dad is going to move the manure pile to a new location with the tractor. We're going to level out the mud. Then we're going to put down hog fuel [its a very absorbent bark] in the ENTIRE dirt area to prevent this from happening again. Hopefully this will all get done this weekend.

Unfortunately, I have no idea on what to do about the barn...Its leaking really bad, and everything is just becoming one big mess. We need to build that lean-to we've been talking about, and SOON.

We're also worried about selling Buck. So far absolutely no one has called or emailed about him. We're pretty much freaking out. However, we do still need to call his original owners and see if they want him back, but I doubt they will. Ugh, selling a crappy horse is WAY too stressful.