Yesterday was barn clean-up day. After a summer of over-active web-builders, our barn was looking more like a haunted house than a barn.
Hubbs moved anything that could be moved and swept behind,
while I vacuumed the rafters - removing thousands of cobwebs and orb webs as well as just as many egg cases. Either we will have many fewer spiders next summer, or our shop-vac will be overrun with baby spiders!
Of course we had a curious audience.
More than once I heard a very loud braying as Daphne or Chloe peered in the stall door at me with the shop vac. "Sound the alarm!!!" "A monster has Mom in its clutches!"
Donkeys tend to overreact just a bit.
The polar opposite, Ollie spent quite a bit of time nosing around the shop vac.
Surely there had to be something edible on this thing! I also wheeled the vacuum down to the pig house and gave that a thorough cleaning as well... just in time for it to get filled with hay for the winter. Spring cleaning might be a better plan for this space!
When the barn was finished, I turned my attention to the herd. The ponies had crusted dirt on their backs from the recent rain, so a good brushing was needed. Tails and bridal paths were trimmed as well.
Red always looks so handsome with just a little bit of effort. "Could you try to stay that way, Red?" Doubtful!
On our way back to the house, Hubbs pointed out a few mushrooms that had burst forth, literally overnight. This group are shaggy parasol mushrooms and they were quite large. (Don't eat... they'll give you a bellyache!)
These tiny specimens (no bigger than a pencil eraser) are called Birds Nest mushrooms, for obvious reasons. They were all over the surface of the mulch next to the shaggy parasols. Mushroom season is here!
Comments
(I deleted the first comment, since there were typos! LOL!)
To repeat , this time, hopefully all the typos corrected. . .it sounds like you are forever busy, even on rainy days! I was not familiar with either of the mushrooms that you shared with us today....Could you possibly do a blog someday on the mushrooms that you know that are edible and the ones that are not. I have books about mushrooms, but I'd like your expert advice!
CAn't put a dirty horse in a clean barn!! Red looks great...
Those mushrooms look as though they have browned coconut on them...Cute little birds nests..Didn't see them that well on my phone this AM..SO cute!!
up on FB. And I love getting caught up,
even if it means spiders!
I will try Blogspot and see if I can stay
in touch with you there.
Hope you too are having gorgeous weather!