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 Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 03:53 am
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TN Trailrider



Joined: Wed Dec 5th, 2007
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee USA
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 Horses do the strangest thing.  I had a scarecrow in my barn that I made several years ago for a Halloween play day.  Ugly mask with silver hair, a straw hat, a wood frame for under the shirt, and kids coveralls and flannel shirt stuffed with hay.  It was in the barn covered with a bit plastic bag to use for my garden one of these days.  I recently shifted things around and sat scarecrow on a stack of lumber about 2 ft high under a window opening onto the pasture.  My husband informed me today that my scarecrow died.  The two rascals lifted the thing out of the window, pulled off the plastic bags, and scattered the thing all over the field.  Of course one of them ate the straw hat and some of the stuffing out of him and pulled off the rubber head.  I was picking up parts all over the place.  What I can't figure out is how they managed to pull that scarecrow up and out of the window.  It must have weighed about 5 lbs. of so.  I can just see them collaborating ... "okay, you take one arm, I'll take the other, and on the count of 3 throw your head up in the air and walk backwards."



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