Sell Or Build?

I was given a round pen; not a metal one that can be used in a million sorts of ways, but a wooden post and rail one. It had only been in the ground for a short time, maybe a year, so it's in good condition still. The wood is treated so no rot at all.
There are 11 posts about 8 inches round and 8 feet tall and 28 rails. The posts have notches in them for the rails to go into and built it is about 40 feet across.
Now.... I have the 50 X 60 covered arena so I don't need a round pen besides that, once the stalls are built we will be able to lunge in the arena with plenty of room. So the posts and rails have been sitting in a pile for 4 months waiting to be used.
The wood posts and design of them doesn't match any of our other fences, I'd really like to have just field fence and white rail fences, not a third kind. So I put an ad on Craigslist to sell this round pen for $300 and so far I have 3-4 people interested in it. In fact, someone wants to come get it this evening.
But now I'm thinking maybe we could use it to build an 8x8 wash rack for the horses. We have the location for it, between the chicken house and the side of the old stalls, where the new barn door will be. There is an empty space with jumbled up roots and dirt clods, we could use the tractor to dig it out, auger out 4 post holes, then put in the corner posts and the rails, finishing it off with a load of gravel. To make it a bit nicer we could add 2x10s around the bottom to contain the gravel and stall mats over the top. I've got the water heater...we could also put over-the-rail shelves and the over head hose holder, if we wanted.
I think we could get this built in one single day, it's not overly complicated and it would look nicer than plain old 4x4 posts and 2x4s. So now I don't want to sell it. So what in the hell would I do with the rest of the posts and rails? They are nicer quality materials than Lowes would sell me, for a lot of money.
I'd really like to bath my horses in a nice, safe area where they can get stupid but not get hurt, where they can see the other horses without getting to them and messing around.
Let's see if LAN is on board with this.

Shift Work

Ive got a shift at work for the summer, Saturday through Wednesday with Thursday's and Friday's off.  I've had to work 9 days in a row due to the spring/summer schedule change so I'm tired, crabby and feeling a sore throat coming on. And to end this week, I had to call 911 for someone having a heart attack on the boat. Our phones at work won't call directly out so I always do it on my cell phone and since I was selling and the incident was on the boat, I had no idea of the symptoms or anything, didn't even know if it was male or female.
 But it scared me, I knew I had to speak clearly and get an aid car as quickly as possible while keeping my traffic lane clear while Dan sold all the tickets in the other booth. The boat left a bit late and everyone got on but it's still stressful.
I'm glad to be home. I'm going to fix some dinner and relax for the rest of the day.

Harstine Island Half Marathon 2016

Yesterday was HIHM #2 and I finished again, but 5 minutes slower than last year. Dang. Had to go back on this blog to find my time from 2015, which was 2:35. This year it was 2:40 but I felt better this year.
Lan also finished is year, his first half marathon ever, not counting all of his half ironman distance races. Heck, I have no idea how many halfs I've done.
My next scheduled race is Iron Horse half in August up at Snoqualmie, down the rail road trail toward North Bend, all down hill. I hope my legs don't hurt as much there as they do now.

Sunrise

I awoke before the sun rose over the hills. The horses were left out all night and seemed happy for that and the dogs were able to go outside at will. Life on our farm is so happy and carefree.
I'm prepping for a nice run outside, don't know if I'll go long or short and not worried about that.
Life is good.

Opportunity

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm reading a few older running books. Not everything has changed but a lot has. I saw one guy has a way of getting faster and supposedly it works. He runs 1 mile, 1 time a week, 1 minute faster pace than normal race pace.
Of course, he warms up well, runs the mile and then cools down. Said he did it for 4 weeks and was a lot faster in his next half marathon. He does it at his local track so it's exact mileage and flat so I'm going to try it at our track.

Today I ran 4 miles, first one 10:11, second 12:??, third was faster than second and the last one was slowest. But during the third mile I ran with a guy pushing a stroller and it was a bit faster than my norm and uphill. Did 4 miles in 47 minutes.

We are supposed to get temperatures into the high 80s and low 90s this weekend. On Saturday I'll be working in the morning so I think I'll need to get the top off the Miata.