Prior to my starting my blog, it had been raining for days, and prior to the rain, we had had an April 1st snow storm, of about 9 inches, so needless to say I have mud everywhere, and it is so boot sucking deep, yesterday when it finally stopped raining I went outside to do my morning chores, between the mud, and storm debris and my fences down everywhere, along with just an amazing amount of work I have to do to put my barn back together, I was over whelmed.  I seldom ride, even though I love to ride, once I sit in a saddle, I am in my element, my breathing evens out, immediate problems vanish, my mood if dark, lightens and my world feels right. Between the number of horses, people and dogs I care for everyday ,  my riding gets set aside for the daily chores of the horses and my family.  But this spring, I have made a determination that I need to finally get my facility, pulled together and looking more professional, On an extremely limited budget, and being only one person, I have a lot of work ahead of me.  Today, I got one paddock scraped, there is an art to scraping manure up off of stonedust.  The tractor bucket must be on the ground enough, but not to much or not only do you take up the manure, you also take up the stonedust, and then you are just dumping money in the compost pile.  After the rain and snow we just had, the winter long build up of manure is heavy and wet, its hard to push around, but I managed to get most of one paddock cleaned out, and the run in shed cleaned out and re-bedded.  Two more to get done. Spring cleaning started.