Laura in Cal.
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "cedarglyn" <cedarglyn@...> wrote:
>
> This one from November 2005 gave me many chuckles... Judy in NE TN
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> A typical Saturday on the farm and the resulting calorie balance:
>
> Wake suddenly at 4:15 AM to the sound of hooves knocking on wood in the
> barn-- -10 calories
>
> Throw bathrobe on, climb in barn boots and race to the barn-- -50 calories
>
> Look up and down the barn aisle and find one stall with no face looking
> back at you and find Haflinger cast upside down looking up as if to say
> "what took you so long?"-- -15 calories
>
> Grab rope, loop around front foot, stand back and pull Haflinger back
> over to its tummy-- -75 calories
>
> Hug grateful Haflinger-- -5 calories
>
> Throw everyone a morning snack and tell them you'll be back later-- -20
> calories
>
> Walk back to house and crawl back in bed-- -10 calories
>
> Wake to 5:30 AM alarm and do one hour of computer work-- -5 calories
>
> Eat breakfast-- +350 calories
>
> Go back out to the barn to do morning chores, lead 3 mares to winter
> paddock-- -40 calories each
>
> Lead older gelding to winter paddock-- -10 calories
>
> Lead dancing weanling to winter paddock-- -50 calories
>
> Lead 2 squirrelly two year olds to winter paddock-- -75 calories each
>
> Haul water to paddocks because hose is frozen -- -200 calories
>
> Trip over barn cat-- -30 calories
>
> Push wheelbarrow with two hay bales up hill to winter paddock-- -100
> calories
>
> Fight off Haflingers while trying to distribute hay in paddocks-- -100
> calories
>
> Go back in the house for nap-- -5 calories
>
> Go back out to the barn to clean, start in stallion stall, try to lift
> 40 lbs of manure all in one pitchfork since he piles it all up in one
> spot-- -75 calories
>
> Scold stallion who is annoyed because you are removing his bathroom spot
> and proves it by dropping manure precisely in the spot you just
> cleaned-- -10 calories
>
> Chase stallion down the barn aisle when he decides to dump over the
> wheelbarrow sitting in the open stall doorway and escape-- -75 calories
>
> Catch stallion and lead him back to exile in his own stall/paddock--
> -10 calories
>
> Clean 8 more stalls, make 4 trips to the manure mountain and push
> wheelbarrow uphill to dump-- -250 calories
>
> Trip over a different barn cat-- -30 calories
>
> Haul 18 loads of fresh shavings back to stalls, and spread out in nine
> stalls-- -150 calories
>
> Scrub and fill 18 water buckets with finally thawed out hose-- -100
> calories
>
> Go back in the house for hot chocolate-- +250 calories
>
> Another nap-- -5 calories
>
> Lunch-- +500 calories
>
> Chase two year olds who have lifted their gate off its hinges and have
> escaped into the orchard and are tanking up on old apples on the
> ground-- -200 calories
>
> Catch two year olds and put them back in the barn and watch for colic
> symptoms-- -100 calories
>
> Eat chocolate for consolation-- +200 calories
>
> Bring mares back to barn for the night, untangle manes, pick hooves and
> brush out-- -50 calories each
>
> Trip over another barn cat-- -30 calories
>
> Bring gelding back to barn for the night, untangle mane, pick hooves and
> brush out-- -20 calories
>
> Bring dancing weanling back to the barn and attempt to pick hooves and
> brush out-- -75 calories
>
> Ignore naughty two year olds-- 0 calories
>
> Feed vitamins and grain, hay and check water-- -50 calories
>
> Dinner-- +800 calories
>
> Go back to the barn to turn out lights, check water and say good
> night-- -30 calories
>
> Bowl of ice cream and chocolate chip cookie-- +350 calories
>
> Hot bath-- -5 calories
>
> Collapse in bed-- 0 calories
>
> Climb on scale to weigh in the morning. No change.
>
> Emily at Gym BriarCroft
> still fluffy inspite of it all
>
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