I will just have to turn in my MAN card!!!!

Ah the shame!! I have been out maneuvered by three females!!!! Even worst they are just YOUNG females at that. I will never be able to hold my head up among men again. Oh the shame. LMAO

When I got home yesterday I saw a bunch of stuff out on the yard. I go to see what is going on and I find three of my Grand daughters, 9,11,12 years old, cleaning out the horse stables. There are twelve horse stalls in this barn that my Great Great Grand Dad built in 1892. The barn is 36 feet wide and 72 feet long. There are 6-12 x 12 stalls on each side and a 12 foot alley way in the middle. The building is a full two stories tall. There is a large hay mow above all of the stalls. That is the only part I have ever used. The rest of the barn is all floored with cobble stones. So I have kept any heavy machinery out of it. I just parked my lawn mower and four wheelers in the center drive.

So I find the lawn tractor setting outside and the Gator being loaded with floor sweepings. This barn has not had any horses in it since my Grand Dad died twenty years ago. My grand daughters where cleaning out the front three stalls. They TOLD me that I would have to park the lawn tractor in another place. Told me!!! Ah the shame. LOL.

It seems that my son and my Sister-in-law ( yes my brothers wife of the horse caring fame) gave them three HORSES!!!! The grand daughters have been taking riding lesson for several years now. So the three grand daughters just decided since I had stalls not being used that they where theirs to use now. You all have seen me posting on how I HATE HORSES. So it seems that I now have three hay burners on the farm again. I was also informed that since the mow was full of hay I could SPARE enough to feed the hay burners.

Well I told them that they had to do all of the work on keeping the horses clean and the stalls bedded. I am going to have to find a small ground drive manure spreader that they can pull behind my 4x4 Gator. I am not forking manure out of those darn horse stalls. I had to do it as a kid and I am not doing it again!

So I spent yesterday afternoon turning the waters back on in the horse stalls. I had to fix two of the bowl heaters but they seem to be working after not being used for a long time. I did keep a few calves in the stalls when the boys where younger.

So I guess we have horses back on the farm again. I was just thinking about that. The twenty years that I did not have any here is more than likely the only time there where not horses on this farm. So I am grumpily allowing it for now.

I will have to evict some calves form the small pasture next to the horse barn. It was always the horse pasture before. It is about three acres that is tilled real well it is never muddy for very long after rains. I told the girls that they will have to come over before school and feed their horses and then put them in the pasture on days that the weather is not too bad. They can then catch the bus at the end of my lane.

I just remembered that is another thing I have to do. I have an old combine cab that I made a shelter out of for the kids to wait on the bus in. See the horses are not even here for a day and I have extra work.

Think I can keep grumbling enough to keep them believing I am not happy that I will get to see the grand daughters each day??? LOL My wife already told them she would fix them a proper breakfast each day after they take care of their horses.

Teaching responsibility to the next generation is worthy of getting a second man card. I have no doubt that you will succeed in that endeavor.
AaronSEIA

Cool,,,And i do want you to know you have all my sympathy's also........Ya..Right..LOL
And happy new year.....You grumpy nice guy...

Lucky you eh ? Well you know the deal with them, but hopefully they are quiet, well minded and not too hard to deal with.

Think they'll be so enthusiastic 1 year from now, give the work, turnouts, riding etc. it is a responsibility, one they like probably better than dairy, and you'll see em regularly, very nice of the wife to do breakfast for em, hope it works out, teaches em a lot about work, that has to be done rain, shine, snow, holidays, when you don't feel well etc. Good and bad of it ..... probably work out, well I'm hoping its a good experience !

PS, just be glad you don't have 17 of them like us !

PSS, there sure are a bunch of small ground driven spreaders being offered out, there, I see used ones on CL every so often.

It is good that you're teaching responsibility, but give it a year or two and see if those girls are still taking care of the horses when they realize how much work it is.

PS I also hate horses, with a passion :shock:

lol, you might hate horses, but you love your grandkids, so, ya got to tolerate the horses grandpa, now for your geting even.. all horse owning kids must be taught that in order to love the horses front end they have to take care of the back end, they, not you lol get to learn what a shovel and manure rake was invented for , untill you find a old manure spreader,hows the tire on your wheelbarrow doing these days

JD, I'm not letting my granddaughters read your post! All five of them are in this house right now, from age 7 to 16 and every one of them have asked me to get them horses. I'll get back into hogs before I'll get a horse, well, maybe not, but it's close. One of the girls would be a very faithful caretaker. The rest? Nah. Jim

IMHO young children/grandchildren are a lot better off interested in horses than drugs or the opposite gender.

Nope it don’t cost you your man card for letting Granddaughters wrap you around their little finger.

But if you would have refused them your Grandpa card would have been gone forever.

You did good.

And, now that you have horses, and you have to buy a new manure spreader, you might as well look into a trailer while you'e at it. MAYBE you can just get a package deal on both. There are also some saddles and blankets and other stuff like old freezers for storing feed and gromming supplies at the feed store, too. And in your spare time, why don't you call a few farriers and check on their pricing for shoes. Might not be a bad time to look around for a good large animal vet and strike up a good relationship with him while you're thinking about it. You're getting old and may not remember it next week. Probably might not be a bad time to check that hay upstairs and make sure it isn't 'dusty'. These nags turn their noses up at anything less than prime hay.

SUCKER. You havbe just been hired for a full time job again.

You's THE MAN!!!!! Nothing wrong with horses as long as they are clear in the head.... Keep your man card,just post back now and then as to how many times a week you clean stalls...... "grandpa ain't got nuttin to do all day and we got school and boys....".....

Fixerupper: Send me your phone number. I will just have to call your "boss" and get you lined up. I am sure my Grand daughters can give yours a few pointer in Grand Dad management. LMAO

You don't have to turn in your "man card", what you get is a gold star on it for being a loving and caring grandpa!

(quoted from post at 11:51:15 01/01/12) You don't have to turn in your "man card", what you get is a gold star on it for being a loving and caring grandpa!

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That gold star comes with a fork, shovel, and pooperscooper........

"Well you know the deal with them, but hopefully they are quiet, well minded and not too hard to deal with."

Are you meaning the horses or the Grand daughters???? LOL

Who is going to pay the vet bills, when they
come?, and they WILL come! Have you got a hoof
trimmer lined up ?????, quarterly, if not
oftener????
I feel sorry for you!!!!!!!!!!!

Sympathy is found in the dictionary in between two other often used words S*** and syphilis!!!!!!!

Gee JD you just gotta man up and tell em..........OK.....ROFLMFAO!


If I never see another horse on the farm.......not a problem.....I have fire arms!

Rick

JD Seller..you never stand so tall as when you bend to help a child..those girls will love everything you do for them

All good.
My daughter is asking for a hay burner. May have to put horse stalls in the new solar shed. And fence in a few acres around the creek.

I count 5, you are beaten.at Christmas, I am told, the joy is in the giving.
I like their timing.

Thanks, ex450, you saved me the trouble of writing a post. You said it all- I'm perfectly happy with my grandpa card.