Posted by JDseller on January 01, 2012 at 08:52:37 from (208.126.196.144):
Ah the shame!! I have been out maneuvered by three females!!!! Even worst they are just YOUNG females at that. I will never be able to hold my head up among men again. Oh the shame. LMAO
When I got home yesterday I saw a bunch of stuff out on the yard. I go to see what is going on and I find three of my Grand daughters, 9,11,12 years old, cleaning out the horse stables. There are twelve horse stalls in this barn that my Great Great Grand Dad built in 1892. The barn is 36 feet wide and 72 feet long. There are 6-12 x 12 stalls on each side and a 12 foot alley way in the middle. The building is a full two stories tall. There is a large hay mow above all of the stalls. That is the only part I have ever used. The rest of the barn is all floored with cobble stones. So I have kept any heavy machinery out of it. I just parked my lawn mower and four wheelers in the center drive.
So I find the lawn tractor setting outside and the Gator being loaded with floor sweepings. This barn has not had any horses in it since my Grand Dad died twenty years ago. My grand daughters where cleaning out the front three stalls. They TOLD me that I would have to park the lawn tractor in another place. Told me!!! Ah the shame. LOL.
It seems that my son and my Sister-in-law ( yes my brothers wife of the horse caring fame) gave them three HORSES!!!! The grand daughters have been taking riding lesson for several years now. So the three grand daughters just decided since I had stalls not being used that they where theirs to use now. You all have seen me posting on how I HATE HORSES. So it seems that I now have three hay burners on the farm again. I was also informed that since the mow was full of hay I could SPARE enough to feed the hay burners.
Well I told them that they had to do all of the work on keeping the horses clean and the stalls bedded. I am going to have to find a small ground drive manure spreader that they can pull behind my 4x4 Gator. I am not forking manure out of those darn horse stalls. I had to do it as a kid and I am not doing it again!
So I spent yesterday afternoon turning the waters back on in the horse stalls. I had to fix two of the bowl heaters but they seem to be working after not being used for a long time. I did keep a few calves in the stalls when the boys where younger.
So I guess we have horses back on the farm again. I was just thinking about that. The twenty years that I did not have any here is more than likely the only time there where not horses on this farm. So I am grumpily allowing it for now.
I will have to evict some calves form the small pasture next to the horse barn. It was always the horse pasture before. It is about three acres that is tilled real well it is never muddy for very long after rains. I told the girls that they will have to come over before school and feed their horses and then put them in the pasture on days that the weather is not too bad. They can then catch the bus at the end of my lane.
I just remembered that is another thing I have to do. I have an old combine cab that I made a shelter out of for the kids to wait on the bus in. See the horses are not even here for a day and I have extra work.
Think I can keep grumbling enough to keep them believing I am not happy that I will get to see the grand daughters each day??? LOL My wife already told them she would fix them a proper breakfast each day after they take care of their horses.
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