Baasha gets in the way

Tonight we worked together on the stall site.







I couldn't figure out what was taking my man so long - after an hour he only had 4 garden stones laid. Well I started watching him. He has a level and he uses it for each side of every stone, making sure that all sides are perfectly level. He has a tamping (?) device and a shovel and he worked so hard making sure every piece was laid perfectly in line 3 dimensionally.



Baasha was so curious about what he was doing, he was almost a nuisance.



As we talked about our plan for the area, Baasha would wrap his neck around my man lovingly.






This look in Baasha's eye says "We're friends, I trust you" as clearly as if he could speak it.



Then he'd nuzzle his shirt and basically try to be as close as physically possible with him.

At one point my man had to blow his nose (still sick) and Baasha saw him reach into his pocket for a tissue, and thought, "Oh, goodie, it must be something nice for me to eat, cuz it's coming from his pocket!" and unfortunately it was only a kleenex. Here my man gestures, "It's for me, not you." and I love it when my man does this - he uses human gestures with Baasha as if Baasha understands them.



Here Baasha actually opens his mouth "for me?"



but Baasha followed it all the way to the nose and then was disappointed.







This is horse-speak for "I love you."

I decided to get rid of the little pear tree myself, sorry dear tree, but you are in a bad spot! I was amazed at how easy it came out of the ground. And before we had it out, Baasha started eating the top leaves, which were now accessible.

I dragged the tree down the hill and left it for Baasha to de-leave.

He went right to work.

The cat was there to watch and interrupt my filming.

My man continued working until he had a good start on our new wall.



It's neat the way it continues the old wall that was there. (The stones don't seem to match but every time we touch them with our muddy gloves, they turn browner!)