I am always learning new things when I am working in the barn with Heather. I ask a million questions. Why do this? Why this way? How come? I am sure that I am annoying ... I need to be told sometimes. Please do but be kind, haha.
I am her sounding board and at the same time, she's mine. I learn things during these rants, like, the bales of hay are to be used from one end to the other, not from the top down! The shavings pile should be used from the outside in, not the middle out! The shavings in the stalls must be raked flat!
Heather went to college for three years to reinforce things she already knew and learn a few new things. She learned how to drink beer from a funnel... How proud am I? Anyway, she is the expert but Vern and I now have a few ideas of our own. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Heather went away recently and I swear the minute she was out of the driveway, Vern opened the new paddock up to the geldings. Heather's plan was to wait until more hay had been eaten, then turn out the mares in that field. By the time she returned, we had dug and played and slightly disrupted things. She as a thin thread on us!It's hard trying not to express my opinion about everything. It's her house, her kitchen, her barn, her life. I often need to remind myself that nobody interferred with my way when I was her age. She is grown up, beautiful, extremely competent and yes, I am very proud!
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