Winter in Kentucky = MUD! I very much dislike mud, especially clay mud. Yuck! Sticky, slippery, sucky, dirty, grippy, pant-painting, boot-stealing, horse-hair-encrusting, miniature horse-eating, annoying, impractical and inglorious mud!
Can you guess what happens to a "dry" lot when it rains for a solid week? Yup, MUD! And, as any horse person knows, horse mud is never just mud!
Can you guess what happens to a "dry" lot when it rains for a solid week? Yup, MUD! And, as any horse person knows, horse mud is never just mud!
It turns out Farletta's favorite place to stomp around is also the lowest part of the parcel of land she now calls home. This makes for great mud baths (everybody sing: Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! There's nothing quite like it for cooling the blood!) but stinks for people trying to care for horses or wishing to keep their horse's feet from drowning. To combat the mud, I started hauling in truckloads of rock, one ton at a time, in the bed of my pick-up truck.
My part of Kentucky (Bluegrass Region) is made up of limestone just below the surface of the lush grasses (and clay). The old horseman say that is why the region is ideal for raising strong-boned Thoroughbreds...because of the mineral content in the limestone which makes for better grass. Well, true or not, that is really irrelevant in a situation where the goal is to restrict grass. However, there is a ton (actually tons of tons) of limestone available at a small price around here. I don't know if this is true for other regions of the U.S. or the rest of the world but it is true here. The rock costs about $20/ton (all rock products cost the same where I shop, regardless of size/shape/consistency). It takes me around 1 to 1.5 hours to shovel out the rock by hand and sweep out my truck bed.
I have about 1/4 to an optimistic 1/3 of the "mud zone" covered in rock of one form or another. I will continue to haul in rock a ton at a time and hand shovel it into the black abyss until I am satisfied I have gained the upper hand on the mud. In the mean time, I believe I'll go cancel my gym membership.
I have about 1/4 to an optimistic 1/3 of the "mud zone" covered in rock of one form or another. I will continue to haul in rock a ton at a time and hand shovel it into the black abyss until I am satisfied I have gained the upper hand on the mud. In the mean time, I believe I'll go cancel my gym membership.