There's always been this little problem with our leanto pen adjacent to the barn. Due to the ground slope, the area never drained adequately after a heavy rain. Consequently, the pen area would remain soaked with water and mud and yuck. It was just a mess. Our poor animals couldn't enjoy the shelter in that condition. Sometimes it would take weeks before the area was dry enough to be used. Well, we finally took care of that problem and spent a few days of hard toiling sweating back-breaking labor digging a drainage trench and installing drain tile to allow the water to run off into the marshland next to Chester Lake. We're talking over 200 feet of trench, 200 feet of drain tile, over five tons of gravel, and multiple applications of Blue Emu on sore backs and feet. We finished the project yesterday and will be recuperating for the rest of the week. I am so glad that we will never have to do this again for the rest of our lives.
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