Reagan was right about horses.

I have been busy the last few days. I am currently rooming in my parents guest room, in their in-laws-apartment on my sisters house. As part of my staying here while job hunting, I am obliged to do work around the house and yard.

The Barn

The yard is several acres, and my sisters family has several horses and a garden. While my brother-in-law keeps the garden to his care, the horses are my sisters. The last few days have been spent in filling her barn with hay for the next year.
The barn was built by our Grandfather somewhere around 50 years ago, and while a bit worse for wear, is still sturdy.

Staging Stack

We brought the first load in with my sisters stock trailer, and then were able to find a neighbor who was kind enough to let us borrow an 18-foot flatbed to bring in more. We ended up with two loads on the flatbed, of over 5 and over 6 tons respectively. The bails are a bit frustrating as they are not fully uniform. Some weigh as little as 60 pounds, others over 125. Some very dense, others loose.


We staged the loads from the flatbed to a pile on the upper part of the lot, then used my brother-in-laws little truck, and my sisters little utility trailer to take it down the hill to the barn.

We got the barn full, seven bails wide, eleven tall, three deep. The last parts of the stack were the hardest as there was no room to keep pushing more up. A hoist would be needed, but one is not available.


With the barn full, My brother-in-law, sister, and myself cleared a spot and set up a platform for a semi-permanent stack nearby. It is still in process.

Cricket having breakfast from the little trailer

Moving over 11 tons of hay by hand is hard work. This job still needs to be finished, but I need to spend some time online and doing some other things, before I can go back to finishing it.

This morning when I went down to take a few pictures, I found that the horses had helped themselves to the bails on the little trailer, so I just got a fork and cleaned up a bit, then took their pictures. There are three full sized horses, and three miniatures,the youngest is six.
Reagan was right about horses. "There is some thing about the outside of a horse that good for the inside of a man."

Rosie, Lady, Dixie (behind), Tigger (before),

 Honey (closest).