Barn Concrete Work is Done

Hi everyone! It's time for a barn update. Yahoo! We're making progress! One more blessing to add to the many blessings I'm thankful for during a trying time. Beautiful summer weather. Tumbleweed fully healed up. A beautiful barn. 

We decided to pour a patio, since they were already there and it was easy, and cost-effective, to do. I've always had a sitting area here, but before this I used bark to form the patio'ish outline. We have the large, wooden supports we used for our son's wedding, and we're going to place them on the outside corners of the patio and run outside lights over it. 

(below) The breezeway, looking North. You may have noticed the cuts in the concrete. Those are made to prevent unsightly cracks that can happen when concrete settles and shifts. We had to do it in the large areas, but they gave us the choice on the patio, and we chose to cut it. I don't think it diminishes from the beauty.

(below) Looking in at the tack room. The tack room pattern is square and the rest is herringbone. When the walls go up, you won't see the tack room from here. The tack room is going to hold minimal tack. It's really going to be more of a sitting room. A place to sit and enjoy the horses throughout the year. It will have the halters and lead ropes and all the day to day grooming and First Aid.

Another view of the patio and 4' skirt in front of the barn. Originally, it was going to be a 4' skirt to the door of the barn, but we made the change to go 12'x12' at the last minute. We will need to buy a new barn door, but haven't found one we like yet. We'll also need a new door from the tack room to the breezeway.

Another view of the tack room and breezeway.

You can see the work they did to level the stalls. They're ready for the mats, (once the sealer dries). The stall fronts are being installed in one week.

breezeway looking North.

I think they did a beautiful job. It was certainly a lot of work for the crew. They were here for almost two weeks, sometimes working very late. The work was done by Humble Construction in Spokane. 

I'll continue to give you updates as this progresses! So exciting!

Hope you're all safe and well and being blessed, blessed, blessed with a wonderful summer!