Tour of the Painted Creek Farm

Last weekend while I was waiting for Pony Girl to get here I decided to take a walk around the Painted Creek and take pictures. Actually I didn't even realize what I was doing until I was down at our pond trying to get a picture of a frog. Did I get a picture of that frog? No! By the time I zoomed my camera the dang frog hopped into the water! Just my luck. So as I was continuing on in my frog search and shooting random pictures at things, I decided to just walk our property and take pictures of different angles to give everyone a closer look at the Painted Creek!

Our pond is a 3 tiered system. We have a creek that runs all the way through our property, through the pond and continues to the neighbors property and into their pond and so on. The pond itself has 3 levels. It is very hard to explain.

This here is the little waterfall from the first level to the 2nd level. We also use this log to walk across the pond.

I always have this fear that some weird creature lives in this stump. I have seen a very large snake come out of it before and when I say large, it was large!

This is the 3rd level of our pond. It actually isn't that deep, we have been wanting to dig it out deeper. This is the level the dogs love to play in, well, one dog. Sadie, my water dog.

Oh, what do we have here? My neighbor thought he was being funny a couple years ago and dumped like 15 ducks into our pond. I think this is the only surviving duck! I believe all the others floated downstream. That's ok, we get real ducks everyday!

At the end of the 3rd level we have these logs here so we can cross. This is the far side of our property. The property line is to the left of those logs.

As I turn away from the pond this is fruit tree row. We have lost a few and haven't replaced them yet. We get peaches and plums every year. Our pear trees have not produced for us yet. We are not experts at this fruit tree thing! I know you have to have mates for some and we did that with no luck.

Oh, how did he get in my picture? At least someone is doing some work around here! I know it wasn't me!

This is what we call the field. This is where I used to ride before we put in an arena. It was the most level place to ride on our property. This is where my horses were trained and where Fritzy dumped me, another story all together! This is also where we set up the volleyball net for those summer parties, now that I don't use this area for an arena there is less of a chance of stepping in horse poo while playing volleyball!

This is party central. My OH put in these really nice horseshoe pits and he made the benches himself! We spend alot of time here playing horseshoes, drinking beer and hanging out with friends. Our neighbors come over alot to challenge us to a game of 'shoes!

Now I just crossed the wood log bridge over the pond to head out to the back.

I am now at the very back of our property. This area use to be all trees until 2 yrs ago when I got extremely motivated and just went out and started chopping down trees. I really wanted an arena! What you see is the unfinished product of what is now my arena and remnants of bulldozer work, looks like we will have a huge bonfire this summer! Yippee!

Hmmm.....what's this? No, I did not spot a frog! Just me being silly!

Now we are getting to the horsey area! This nice, big, grass field is where my future barn will be someday. A real barn! See way down on the right? That is my house. That is also where we have to take the horses to tack them up. Than we have to walk all the way back up to the arena, which is behind me. It is a hassle and if I ever get that barn it will make things so much easier! I have even considered having my OH build me a tack room out by the arena because I might not get that barn for another 20 years!

I ran into some obstacles. Someone's goats were out and demanding attention! What's that all about?

This spotted character was probably wondering what I was doing walking around taking pictures, oh wait, he is used to that! Pony Girl has a camera in his face every waking minute! Sorry spotted pill! I can't help you with that one!

My 2 girls were napping, as usual. I just love this stump! The goats really cleaned it out. It makes a good goat house, don't ya think?

I am heading back to the house. Here is my neighbors house. I just love how my neighbors aren't "right" next door!

Here is the bridge my OH built for me. It goes over the creek on the other side of our property. I use the bridge for training the horses.

I am heading back to my house!

Fritzy update: I took Fritzy to the arena today and longed her. She did not cough once and was not wheezing! Yeah! She had her vaccinations a couple weeks ago, I am wondering if she had a reaction to one of them. Here is my girl looking at something in the woods.

I think this picture is kinda funny, she was actually really interested in something on the other side of the fence and when I went through my pictures her eyes were closed! It looks like she was taking a nap.

Are we done yet? All you have done this week is take pictures of me! What is up with that?

Hope you enjoyed the tour of the Painted Creek Farm!