Boarding horses is a part of what we do to afford the farm and keep our girls on competetive animals. Good boarders are a wonderful thing- a huge help around the place as well as a source of income, and they become friends...which is where the trouble starts, because then they get a "friend rate", and expectations get elevated, etc. and suddenly kindness is mistaken for weakness.They learn a little about the business, and suddenly they think they know it all- experts on hay, water, pasture, training, blah blah blah- when we all know if it was so d@mn easy they'd have a place of their own. It's almost better to have a real "beeyatch" who's expectations are high- you charge them an appropriately crazy amount, treat them with the same high faluting distain they treat everyone else with, charge 'em extra every time their animal poops in the aisle and absolutely know where you stand the entire time. In EVERY case, the animals and the children are easier to deal with than the person paying (or "not paying", or "paying late") the bills. If I had to do it all over again, I'd set it up as a "self care" deal where I could beeyatch and moan at THEM instead of vice versa. That said, I still have plenty of boarders and couldn't make ends meet without 'em
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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