New Additions & An Unbelievable Miracle

New Additions to the Farm:
This blog is sort of chopped up and random but I hope you enjoy the new additions pictures and make sure you make it to the end to see the miracle pictures!

Our nice and clean green house got torn apart so that we could get a new roof. We went from a very old wooden roof to brand new plexiglass roof. This will help all of our micro-greens to get more sunshine. Unfortunately, we found out plexiglass does not hold in heat. So the first night we had our new addition, it frosted all of our precious plants. We had to throw them all away... 

We had a great time replanting though!

I rebuilt our old fire pit 

Before

The new and improved!
(I'd like to add. My dad was an amazing
teacher when he taught me how to
build a fire!!)

Chase and I added a 300lb stump to our new
fire pit!! 

It is hard to explain just how incredibly huge these giraffe horses are...

To put it in perspective...

Take Chase's head...

And that is about the size of their hooves... 

It is literally like they are walking on four of his heads! 

There owner is volunteering to plow our fields with his horses just to get them some exercise! Win Win for both parties!! I'll post pictures once we get to see the horses in action! 

Just look at how ginormous they are!! 
There owner is AMAZING when it comes to training them. I witnessed the horses walking back to their trailer and on the way they were going to walk over an electrical cord. I watched the trainer whisper "step over" as they approached the cord and simultaneously the horses gently stepped over the cord!!! WHAT?! Crazy!! So impressed! 

Every day we are adding more and more to the farm. We have just finished adding about 13 new trees to our property. It was quite the project, being as the ground was rock solid and it took 4 adults to, just barely, weigh enough to break ground...

On our breaks we cool off in nice electrical trenches 

Some very sweet people dropped off a lovely card and a ginormous bag of carrots for the horses. It has provided a lot of entertainment for visitors and us, as well as a yummy new snack for our horses.  

The new barn cat, Barnie, has found all the nooks and crannies of the farm house...it has provided me with tons of entertainment while watching Chase try to track him down and get him out of the deep dark crawl spaces! 

Blackmail!! :)




Our newest addition to the farm will be a new fence this week...

On Friday I finally overcame my fear of the Rooster and discovered a new found dread. Which is for any animal on the farm to get hurt. So far I have found there is nothing scarier than six spooked, galloping and bucking horses free from their pasture and loose on an open property. Some how all of our horses escaped their pasture around 4:00pm on Friday afternoon. So many things could have gone wrong, they could have gotten up to the main road, any of them could have fallen in the 24inch deep holes that are waiting to be filled with new posts and by the grace of God every single one of them were obtained unharmed. 
I am so thankful that Sue has been training Chase and I on how to handle the horses because without that training we wouldn't have been able to know exactly what to do and how to react. From this incident we lost a fence (don't know how) and had some pretty stressed out horses. 
After we got the horses back to their stalls and took a minute to clam down Chase and I walked the property to assess what happened. One of the scariest parts was the holes.....

If you can see....There are hoof prints that are just two feet away from over ten 24inch deep holes....There is NO WAY that galloping and bucking horses could have slalomed through the area with the holes and not fallen into one of them and snapped their leg!!

After checking the horses for any injuries I re-walked the property and just thanked God over and over and over again for keeping our horses safe, for containing them on our property and for keeping Chase and I safe. It was absolutely heart stopping to be surrounded by these untamable horses. 
It was a complete miracle that no one was hurt.

Thank you Jesus!! 

So much more to come!!

❤Sarah Ruth