Major Purchases
- New office trailer (at least 30’ long, preferably 40 feet)
- Utility Wagon cart
- Storage Shed (wood or heavy-duty plastic preferred, such as a tough shed).
- New shade awnings for Fun Day (pop up tents at least 8’ x 8’ or larger)
- Purchase new picnic tables.
Projects
- Fix the door on our helmet storage or create a new helmet storage container.
- Create mounting ramp
- Make or buy Emergency IDs for horses.
- Make a heavy-duty work bench with a vice (for having to work on plumbing and other projects around the ranch.)
- Cut railroad ties (or logs) to fit in back doors of horse stalls so that water doesn’t come in and shavings don’t get dragged out.
- Help re-level all of the outside stalls so that water does not drain into the barn.
- Mural for back and/or sides of one of the storage units or the tack room; possibly one being a “Memorial Wall”.
- Create better storage for all our rakes, shovels, & other tools (&/or purchase new tools).
- Make more moveable posts (normally done out of paint cans filled with cement and a plastic 5-foot pipe with a cap on the top).
- Help with weed clearance for Fire Safety.
- Lights for arena (must be solar powered).
- Raised garden(s).
- Sand and repaint directional sign and possibly create new directional sign(s)
- Make cement foundations to go under the office and/or storage sheds.
- Create an additional bulletin board(s).
- Create solar panel so have electricity in the barn to run fans in the summer to cool stalls and keep flies away.
- Create new Game Booth Games for Fun Day; i.e. Disc drop game or spin the wheel game or big round “pizza” with toppings to throw on it, or a round face or Pumpkin that goes on the floor and throw bean bags shaped like lips, eyes, ears, nose to throw on it.
- Make new sandwich Board signs pointing to our location for Fun Day & other big events.
- Make Photo Op Props (mural boards that have cut outs to put your head in, maybe a cowboy, cowgirl, sheriff, horse, cat or jack-o-lantern for Fun Day or Halloween, etc.)
- Basketball hoop to go at the edge of the lesson arena with long net to collect balls.
- Create a space for our practice barrel.
- Sand and re-seal benches (needs to be done yearly)
- Sand and re-stain/paint our poles for the ring and pole game.
- Make an owl box or hawk perch to help with rodent problem. (Could have more than one on the property.)
- Create content for social media
- Create a promotional video for YouTube and/or social media
- Update our flagpole with lights at night for American flag and possibly create an AWH logo flag
We’re open to additional ideas and projects.
