This past winter a lot of rain fell on Domaine de Soleil. The ground turned soft, and the tracks the horses walk every day became thick mud. In places you sank in deep.
Mud may look harmless, but for a herd that lives outside all day it is not. The going turns heavy and slippery, and the horses begin to avoid the wettest spots, which leaves them less room to roam.
All winter long Angelique pushed her wheelbarrows through that mud, day after day, with no firm path to stand on. More than once she ended up face down in it herself. It could not stay that way.
How it went
This past summer the new path was laid. Volunteers lent a hand, and the rest Angelique did herself: stone by stone, spreading and laying them along the routes the herd uses most, from the walk-in shelter to the land, to the water, to the sheltered spots.
Now the horses walk dry again. The water drains away along the paths instead of pooling on them, the herd moves freely across the whole domain again, and the next downpour can come. Step by step we keep making the domain better for the animals. This is one more.