If you answer, you let him hijack the thread, Bobert.
Have you heard any more about closing on the new place? And will you be able to evict the horse from the garden spot gently enough to negotiate to get the droppings for future compost from where the neighbors move it?
There's a horse in the neighborhood, but I don't know what arrangements they make about the manure. I should stop by the house and ask them one of these days. Would you use horse, or do you prefer chicken?