That barn work sure tires me out! My best friend, who also works there (only she's worked there for a few more years than I have) says that it took her about a month to work up the muscle mass needed to be able to move at all after a day there. Fortunately it doesn't actually start until.. well, really, whenever we want it to. The kicker to that is the fact that it starts to get really blisteringly hot (well, hot for Oregon -- 80 to 90 degrees) around 1:00 in the afternoon. I get to sleep in later than I ever did during the school year - I get up around 9:00 or 9:30, get to the barn by 10:00.
Once it stops raining so much, I'll be able to till the vegetable patch and finish the (collapsed) drainage ditches. However, as it stands, we've had one sunny day in the past two weeks and other than that we've had straight rain or drizzle or showers. It's been overcast every day except yesterday. The only problem with this is the fact that we can't get anything to dry out, and multiple runs at the barn have flooded. One of the stalls even had a puddle coming up through the mats under the shavings and was about the size of one or two couch cushions. It rained all night last night and everything is muddy.
Hopefully it'll dry out some time this week and we can till, fix the driveway, and dig ditches (yeah, we said that last week...).
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