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| Posted: Sat Aug 30th, 2008 11:37 pm |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member 
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Well, killing my scarecrow was funny, but this morning the damage was not funny at all. One of them (found white hair which would indicate the Appy) crashed into one of 5 posts holding up the barn overhead and snapped it in two. I found the bottom half laying in aisleway under the overhang, and the rest of the post sticking down all jagged. That's the second time he's banged into something and torn it up .. the other time was a 6 inch gatepost he broke off underground. So we had to work putting it back together. Hubby was not happy and is not in the best of moods. It was 90+ degrees. Didn't replace the post, he just shored it up with 2x6 boards and we'll dig out the concrete and replace the post when it cools off a bit, if it doesn't get knocked out again. He's not a horse lover, so all these "chores" irritate the shit out of him. On top of it all, we're remodeling 3 bathrooms and his routine is displaced as well as him, and he's rather testy all the time. Hell, he's using my bathroom and I'm the one who has the toilet seat left up and don't notice it when I plunk down, and the one whose counter top is dripping wet and had to give up half my counter and drawer space.
____________________ Lynne |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 08:27 pm |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member
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I long ago learned that if it's not bolted to the floor, or locked behind doors, a horse will find a way to get whatever interests him. Long ago, when I lived in Vicksburg and boarded my QH, who was a wizard at getting into and out of things, the barn owner told me of his escapades. There was a chain across the entrance to the walk to the barn and he and buddies were out in the pasture in front of the barn. He and his partner in crime kept getting into the barn and the feedroom. The bo watched one day, and those two rascals got low to the ground and crawled under the chain and marched down the barn aisle. The feed room has a hasp but was not locked down. They would open the door and get themselves in the feed room ... and shut the door behind them (he was always good at shutting gates behind him after he went thru). He said always managed to get to them, but he said what really got them was they also managed to turn the lights on. Well, he certainly couldn't expect them to eat in the dark could he!!! After that, the door was kept locked.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 03:04 pm |
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SPOTD RIDR G.O.G Community Member 
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Poor scarecrow, but I'm sure that was easy to lift that little light weight thing out the window. I am trying to start using my barn and paddock as a run in on rainy days or when we will be out late, my feed room door has a half gate and 55 gallon barrels of Oats in there with other feed stuff, the barrel is at least 4 ft from the door, I heard a noise last week and went out to the barn to find Coal & Mira in the hallway with the Oats barrel pulled all the way up against the gate and the lid taken off and thrown out in the hall, with drool all down the sides of the barrel and in the top of the oats. We thought maybe it was Cruz because he is so mouthy being young and he was in there till the others ran him out, we had planned on fixing a full door before we left them for a weekend. So yesterday I went to send them out of the barn and before I could get Cruz up off his lazy butt and out of his stall Mira and Coal came running back in and Coal ran straight to that gate and grabbed that barrel with his mouth and tried to snatch the lid off, sooo we know who did it the one we call the walking gut, Coal. I grabbed my whip and popyow on both of them brats and out they went and Cruz was hiding in his stall in the corner trembling, I kissed to him and told him to get the hell out to ! did not take him long to comply. So my work man was out this morning with my new gate for the feed room door and already had the old one off and the new one put on before I could even get dressed and get out to see him, he was done & gone , hes so quick, I just love it. Last edited on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 03:05 pm by SPOTD RIDR ____________________ JoAngela "Jo" |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 02:32 pm |
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ssecmft G.O.G Community Member 
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This has to be the best laugh of the week. Wizard of Oz was my first thought too. Were they horses of a different color?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 12:50 pm |
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Karal G.O.G Community Member 
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l1 Wizard can you pleeese give me a brain, oh and can you add legs and arms and oh, a hole new body. And someone stole my bloody hat! TN - JoyRider you are so funny. I too can see the two working together to 'kill' the scarecrow. l1 thanks for the good laugh this morning. Last edited on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 12:51 pm by Karal ____________________ live - laugh - love |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 11:20 am |
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JoyRider G.O.G Community Member 
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I am so sorry for your loss- poor thing will not ever find its brain now! LOL!!
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29th, 2008 03:53 am |
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TN Trailrider G.O.G Community Member
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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."
____________________ Lynne |
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