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| 1840.1 | The Week Before Christmas... | DECWET::JDADDAMIO | Seattle Rain Festival: 1/1-12/31 | Wed Dec 22 1993 13:57 | 23 |
| 'Twas the week before Christmas
And all round the farm
The horses are neighing,
"YEA!!!!!! We're in our new barn"
Sorry, I couldn't resist! Remember "Fractured Fairy Tales" on Rocky &
Bullwinkle cartoon shows? This is a fractured Christmas poem!
Jan & I "finished" our new barn last weekend and moved the horses into it.
It's not *really* finished. There are still lots of odds and ends to
do(like putting up a shelf for the radio, molding around the tack room
windows, etc) but it's functional!
This was well worth the year of planning and 6 months of
construction...but I'm scared to add up the total bills!!!
Between the contractors who did the major construction, the materials we
put into finishing the interior(electrical, stall planking, hardware,
doors, tack room interior, plumbing....) we may need to take out a new
mortgage! Not to mention the money we had to spend on civil engineering
to get the site approved by the County before we could get the building
permit!!!!!!!
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| 1840.2 | ho ho | ELMAGO::HBUTTERMAN | | Wed Dec 22 1993 15:20 | 12 |
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ah... fractured faiy tales... I remember them well.
Congratulations!!! A new barn and the horses tucked into it
is a significant accomplishment and you can SEE the results
of your labor, time, love (not to mention... $)
Anyway - if I were there I'd drop off a wreath for each
door.
bravo - ho ho - h
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| 1840.3 | | POWDML::MANDILE | Cranky, me? Nah | Thu Dec 23 1993 09:32 | 12 |
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My husband lucked out that the New Zealand turnout blanket
that was back ordered, arrived yesterday! Now all he has
to do is wrap it..(; That makes a blanket, an acrylic cooler,
and one of those plastic apples for the horsies & me.
And my new saddle fund grew by $50, with love from my M & F-I-L....
Merry Xmas, Happy Holidays and many apples and carrots to all &
their horses!
Lynne
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| 1840.4 | Happy Holidays | FSAEUR::LOTHROP | | Thu Dec 23 1993 10:48 | 23 |
| Well, while all my friends keep teasing my husband about putting a
2-year old warmblood under our tree (it wouldn't fit), I'll be having
another Christmas here in Germany "horseless". I'm sure everyone in my
family has been stumped for the last two Christmases since they can't
take the easy way out and buy me things for my horse. Of course, a
nice pair of Euro-stars is *always* welcome! We'll see.....
John, congratulations on your barn! Wow, it sounds like it's been
quite a project for you and Jan. Have you decorated it yet for
Christmas?? (only kidding!)
Speaking of Christmas decorations, the barn I ride at here decorated
the barn beautifully for Christmas. They took evergreen branches and
put them on each horse's door with strung-together carrots and apples
attached to the evergreens. In the middle of the indoor was a large
wreath hung from the ceiling like a chandelier with strung carrots and
apples dangling from it (I kept waiting for a horse to rear up for a
snack, but no one seemed to notice them!) It looked wonderful!
I hope that everyone has a happy and safe holiday season.
Janet
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| 1840.5 | | ALFA1::COOK | Chips R Us | Thu Dec 23 1993 11:04 | 25 |
| Congratulations John and Jan!!!!!!!!!!! You must be so proud and
happy! What a great Christmas present to give yourself.
I remember when our new barn was finally finished and we could put
horses in it we thought we'd died and gone to heaven. It was a long
project like yours. We began with just an L-shaped shed row and the
new barn had to built over the top of the old barn. Since it was
October-February, the builder helped out by cutting a hole through
the roof of one of the stalls to put in one of the corner poles for
the new barn. But we were feeding horses in strange places for a
couple of months.
I decorated my barn this week. I put my new gelding in it. My new
gelding is my old stallion. The best Christmas present I'll get this
year is to look out and see him talking (quietly) through the fence
to his two daughters and their mother. Back Bey is home to stay!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Gwen
Grace
Bey
Betsey
Scarlett
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| 1840.6 | Happy holidays everyone! | BROKE::MELINDA | Johnson dtn 381-2623 | Thu Dec 23 1993 14:22 | 2 |
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| 1840.7 | | DECWET::DADDAMIO | Design Twice, Code Once | Mon Jan 03 1994 17:15 | 11 |
| Thanks for all the congratulations on our new barn! It sure felt good
to move the horses in. John's parents were here for the holidays and
his father finished the trim work in the tack room and made dog houses
with the left over lumber. Now all we have to do is build dog runs and
move the dogs in for it to be really finished. Having running hot
water is the greatest - no more carrying buckets of hot water to the
barn when it's cold!
Hope all of you also enjoyed happy holidays!
Jan
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