In the beginning…..

There was just land.

We purchased bare ground in October 2015. We had 9 horses, two of them were pregnant mares due in April.

There was no shelter, no water, no fences. But we had to move because our farm in Southeastern Idaho sold. We quickly put up enough fence to hold the horses over the winter, had a well drilled, stacked our hay under a tarp (more on that later) and called it good. Three trips with the horse trailer and all the horses were relocated to their new home in North Idaho. We bought a small house in town to live in for the short term.

Miraculously, it was warm enough (and the ground was solid enough) in February to start building a shelter for the girls to foal in. Just in time. Calypso arrived on April 3 and Bijou on April 28. And so it began. This little shelter is now part of our big barn which houses our home and future farm store.