New Barn - Lee Ann's Horse

Here are some photos of Ruler, Lee Ann's horse. Ruler is my idol - he has worked a deal where his "subjects" feed him and wait on him hand and foot, and he needs do nothing in return. Ruler is in something like his fourth month of injury related stall rest. See how instead of the graceful lines you might notice on racehorses, Ruler is built kinda like a truck? That is his draft horse ancestry showing through. He is generally the biggest horse in any group. In fact, I (Scott) suggested his name did not do him justice, and he should be called "Yardstick" at least. That is the sort of obscure wordplay joke I like to make, which causes no end of eye-rolling by my girls.

The last photo shows the main aisle of the barn to which Lee Ann's friend Jill relocated her horse operation a week ago. Jill was renting a horse facility but late last year bought her own place. She and her family have since been hard at work upgrading the barn with added stalls and putting in a riding ring outside, to get the place ready for the fifteen horses now in residence. Our small contribution was to wire in a line of electrical receptacles for the box fans that hang in the new stalls and keep the horses cool in the summer - you can barely see the gray line of the conduit on the highest horizontal board over the stalls on the left side of the picture. I worked on this all day Monday, and then Lee Ann and I finished this project up on Tuesday night.