LUMBER!!

We finally have the lumber to start work on the foundation sill's! We should be starting next week on jacking up the barn and setting new sills into place. Wish us luck!

HOW EXCITING....I will update blog and post pic's as soon as we start!

Charlesey

WORK DAY II

WORK DAY

Well we finally got to get a few things done over Thanksgiving break. We got 2 of the stalls cleaned out all the way down to the packed dirt floor and another 2 we got all the "junk" out of (aka - trash). We burned the brush pile, and finally got the previous owners dead calves out of the barn.

Vacation

Vacation in Florida

Vacation......ahhhhhh.
Ok so it was a great vacation, really only one draw back to Destin,
RED TIDE......yep it really bites. You cough, wheeze, your eyes water, and your nose runs.....also kills local marine life...fish in particular. CNN covered the story on the Mako shark Jamie and Matt were in the video shots!! Very exciting, to say the least...it was a record breaking shark!!!! Jamie and Stacy were also quoted in the local news paper, the Daily Journal. All in all a good trip, lots of family bonding, both good and bad. haha.

Biltmore Estate

After a long weekend of endurance riding we all decided to visit the famous Biltmore Mansion. I must say I was very sceptical, but it was really worth while and very beautiful. Here are some pictures from the grounds. Enjoy.


Charlesey

Biltmore South East Endurance Ride

OK so Jamie, me, and Charlene went to the Mounting Hopes Endurance Ride this weekend at Biltmore in Asheville N.C. and had a freaking blast. Charlene and I are no longer allowed to leave camp site unsupervised.

Anyway Dan (my horse) did GREAT!! We completed # 38 out of 78 other riders in the 30 mile race with a time of 5 hours and 7 mins!!!! What a champ! So long story short is as always when Charlene and I get together we create havoc, and mayhem! But man we sure do look good and have a good time doing it!!!

Charlene rode a cute little Arab for a man wanting some miles on the colt. Bad news is that she was pulled at the midway vet check due to a scrape on the horses knees (due to a fall) and he was ever so slightly off at a trot.

Jamie did a wonderful job crewing!!! He took such good care of Char and me!

As I was saying the ride went great for me and Dan, the only problem we had was about 3 miles out from finishing, I was litterly close-lined OFF my horse, due to a very stupid vine hanging in the middle of the trail....very inconsiderate vine, indeed!!!! So I have a very nice bruised bum and a wonderful scabby scrape on my neck.

Article on Sun Set View Farm

Follow link to read about SSVF. Tennessee Farmers Coop did a small article on the farm.

www.ourcoop.com/cooperator/September2007.pdf

Recent Pictures

Basically a really big catfish that Bill Collette caught, a frog in my jade plant, Jamie's Dad Jimmy at the barn and a pic of Stacy, me, and April having a girls night out!

Meadow Creek and Plans for Barn

I am posting some pics from weekend before last, when my cousin April and I went riding up at Meadow Creek near Parrotsville with a rough and rowdy crew!!!!! lol Well maybe not rough, but definitely rowdy!!

Charlesey

Riding Pictures

Ok so I thought it would be cool to put some past riding pics up for everyone to see!!!

Landscape

Work Work and More Work

8/10/07

We raked and baled hay. It was a hot job. We ended up with 32 bales. Also started on other side of barn hall way. Its is coming slowly. Jamie worked on cleaning out the stalls and getting ready to start jacking up the barn to replace rotten sills.

Charlesey

Hot and Humid Day

August 6, 2007

As of today.....man its humid. I am sitting here typing this, and guess what I am sweating buckets. Because as you all know my loving husband is tight as a banjo string and insist on no air conditioning.

Jamie finished 2 boot scrapes today and I must say they are quite nice I am posting them so you all can see his work.

I plan on going out to the farm and checking on my weeds today(to see if they are dead yet). We start mowing hay tomorrow. Should be hot enough.

Charlesey

Cleanup

August 4, 2007

Today we started the initial cleanup. We sprayed for weeds, bush hogged, and started on the hall way of the barn.

Its a start.

Charlesey and Jamie

Cleaning up and Kill'n some weeds