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Post by chey on Nov 23, 2008 21:14:36 GMT -5
Tim drove down the highway trying to find a farm that was called Red Maple Rescue. He was going to board his daughter and his horse there until they got there own farm. He looked up to watch the old beat down 3 horse goose neck trailer scooted along the rode. They needed a new trailer, but they cost to much money and money they didn't have so they stayed away from trailers. He saw the stables sign and pulled in. He looked back to his daughter and smiled.
Dani propped up her legs on the dash board as she watched the land around her flash before her eyes. She saw houses and farms and sometimes even stables. She had always wished to own her own stable one of these days and to be able to ride anytime she wanted to. Her long brown hair was pulled up in a pony tail. She watched as the pulled in the stable yard. She sighed a bit and then looked over to her dad and kinda grined." I guess were here"
The truck came to a stop and tim looked at his daughter and shook his head as a yes." Come on Dani lets see if anyone is home so we can give flag a place to stay" Dani and tim opened the truck doors. Dani slammed the door back and walked behind the trailer and looked at flag and gave him a treat. The trailer was in bad shape, but she liked her trailer. It felt like home to her. She looked over to her dad and watched him walk with her to the barns to see if anyone was around.
Tim looked in the barn." Hello Anyone here? He hollored out. He was wanting to get flag in a right home were dani could ride at and be able to train flag at for all the rodeo's they will be going to this year. He made sure dani was in range just in case someone came so they could talk.Dani on the other hand wanted to look at the beautiful horses. She walked down the stalls and watched the horses.
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Post by Savina on Nov 23, 2008 21:43:16 GMT -5
Delia peered out of the tack room, where she had been gathering's Sierra's tack o take her on a ride.She sighed, and stepped out of the room, and slipped into the office, where she picked up the phone and called the house. Crystal answered right away, and siad she would be right down.And that Delia had to greet them.. Delia left the safety of the office, and miled shyly as she saw the girl looking at the horses."Hello.." She spoke shyly, barely above a whisper. Her mexican accent was clearly noticable though, whether she tried to hide it or not.
Crystal hurridly exited the house, and headed straight for the barn. The ground was still covered in snow, and it was rather cold outside. She waved toward the man standing by the barn, and grinned as she saw the girl disapear into the barn."Hey there, My name's Crystal. I own this place. Anything I can do for you?" She asked him, and glanced inside the barn. She could see Delia trying to hold her ground against her shyness, and smiled proudly before turning back to the man in fornt of her. Man, she really needed to fix that draft in the stallion barn, and move these geldings into it.
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Post by chey on Nov 23, 2008 21:49:15 GMT -5
Tim looked at the lady walking toward him. He waved back and left his daughter to talk to the other girl." Hello, Im Tim Woods and I wanting to know if I could board our gelding here." He took his hand out of his carhart jacket and reached out to meet the lady's hand. This place seemed really nice and wouldn't mind working here at all. He smiled and then watched his daughter out of the corner of his eye.
Dani heard a girl and smiled."Hello.." She looked at one of the mares and then back to the girl." You sure do have pretty horses here. Are they yours?" She looked at the girl. She still had her horse in the back of the trailer waiting to be unloaded once they found a place for him to stay at. The day was kinda warm for a winter and really wanted to go for a ride." Were you going for a ride? Oh Im Danielle just call me dani"
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Post by Savina on Nov 23, 2008 21:59:31 GMT -5
"This one.. is.." Delia told her, pointing out Special Secret and her foal. Special Secret came over,placing her head over the stall door and nickering softly. Her foal answered in a playful nicker, and rushed to the door, eyeing everyone with big foal eyes.It was clear the foal was only a few days old,and Delia warmed up just thinking about the day Secret's Breeze was born. Delia rubbed the black and white mare's nose, and coaxed the dark brown and white filly over, rubbing her gently. The foal had already figured out the girl's touch was nothing to fear, and she was becoming eager for it. "these are Crystal's.." Delia told her, pointing to a beautiful buckisn mare, with her stall marked Mysty Sierra, and another, marked Navajo's Traveler. A brown and whiet paint filly peered out of that one, and then finally, to another one. And him." Ebony moon. A pure black gelding, with three white stockings. The rest of the horses here were boarders, and their owners names were beside theirs on the stalls.
Crystal nodded." We have room,It's the last stall we have though, since someone else is coming as well later on today. We have another barn, but it is rather drafty, and I haven't got anyone to repair it yet.." Crystal grinned sheepishly, and gestured toward the barn, and then the trailer." Do you wanna check out the barn before you unload him?" Crystal asked, and smiled toward Delia, who was trying her best to show the girl around.
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Post by chey on Nov 23, 2008 22:16:52 GMT -5
Tim listened to her and heard a barn needed some repair." Well I could help you with that barn if you would like me too? Im a pretty good builder." He looked up at her and then nudged his daughter near him." Its fine, I bet my daughter can figure everything out. I think this place is great." He smiled and then wonder his head around and watched his daughter it seemed like she was having fun in the barn.
Dani smiled as she looked at the mare and foals."They are so cute.." She saw her dad look at her and knew what that ment. That she needed to get flag unloaded." Hey want to see my horse? His name is flag." She smiled and walked out of the barn hopping that she was following and went to the trailer and opened the door. She walked in and was backing a 16h buckskin quarter horse gelding that was standing proud with a blanket across his back and shipping boots on his legs. Dani smiled and walked him around a bit to get all the soarness from the ride out of him. She smiled and walked over to her dad and the lady." This here is Flag." She smiled as flag snorted and keeped his head held high for he smelt other horses and the place was new.
Tim looked at crystal and then back to dani." well, what do you think about our boy?" He smiled and reached out and began rubbing his neck." So how much does boarding cost?"He looked at crystal and then watch his daught begin to rubb flags face.
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Post by Savina on Nov 23, 2008 23:28:12 GMT -5
Smiling, Crystal nodded."I'd love some help, I really do need to get it fixed." Crystal told him, and smiled when he said his daughter could figure everything out.
Delia nodded"Yes, They are very special to me." She nodded, eager to see the girl's horse as well, and followed the girl outside. She looked the gelding over as the girl led him out and led him around."He is.. pretty." She told her shyly, and followed her over toward Crystal. When they stopped beside them, she held her hand out, and invited the gelding to sniff it. Crystal smiled, knowing Dani had found Delia's weakness: her love of horses. "He's a handsome one, reminds me a little of my Sierra. Too bad he's gelded, they'd make a beautiful foal together." She teased, grinning at them. "Boarding here is $300 a month, but if you help around the barns, I can drop it down to $200." Crystal told them, smiling as she watched Delia try and befriend the gelding. She could hear nickers inside the barn, as the horses could hear another horse and voices outside, which usually meant something was going on. "All of our stalls are well bedded though, and cleaned daily. We also have numerous small paddocks, along with a few bigger ones for those who get along well together. Most of them have run-in sheds, so if they are outside while we aren't home, and the weather gets bad, they have a place to go. This place needed alot of work when I got it, but the fences are in much better shape now, and most are able to hold horses." Crystal told them, gesturing behind and to the sides of the two large barns.
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Post by chey on Nov 24, 2008 21:06:37 GMT -5
Flag snorted and nudged Delia's hand. It smelt really sweet. He snorted and looked around and heard the horses out in the barn. He pawed at the ground ready to go to his new home.
Tim looked at crystal and shook his head in agreement." We only gelded him for Dani's safty when she was a little bit younger." Dani was in such an embaressement. She could handle him anytime when he was such a butt head. She looked at her dad and then back to Delia." Hey, lets go get flag settled in." She smiled and began walking toward the barn that keeped the stallions at. She walked threw the barn doors and could feel the draft and knew her dad would fix it. He fixed everything he could fix and it didn't matter if it was a barn or a freakin house. He would do it just to make money and make sure he has some good things.
Tim looked at crystal." Well would you like me to work at? I mean would you like me to repair fencing or the barn?" Tim looked at her and smiled. He knew he was told old for her anyways. He was to old to even have a daughter. Well thats what he though anyways. He watched as his daughter walked away leading flag toward the barn.
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Post by Savina on Nov 24, 2008 21:24:47 GMT -5
Delia smiled a little when the gelding nuzzled her hand, and she stroked his neck gently as she listened to them talk.Horses never asked her to speak, nor did they demand she answer. They just listened to you when you were ready. Delia had told Secret everything, it was one of the reason's she had named her that.. It was just so fitting, when she was there for all of Delia's secret's. espcially the ones she couldn't bare to talk about much. She followed the girl and her horse to the barn, feeling the draft imediatly as she stepped inside. She was glad Crystal had gotten someone willing to fix it, they really needed to move all the geldings into this one.
Crystal grinned as she watched Delia follow the girl, and was happy she might be making friends with her, she seemed like a decent kid, and she had a caring father. "To be honest, The barn. The fences can wait, most of the horses we have at the moment can get along fairly well together, most of the mares are very good with the other mares. The only ones we really have to seperate, is the stallions. And Secret, because she just had a foal." Crystal told him as she led the way to the barn." I really don't know why it's so drafty, but whatever it takes to fix it. I really could use the extra stalls." Delia quickly entered the room where all the feed, and bedding was kept. Picking up a rake, and piling a few bags of the soft bedding into her arms, she headed toward one of the stalls, and began spreading it down for the gelding. They hadn't set this barn up, since they didn't think anyone would be staying here. But now that someone was fixing it, she would spend awhile getting all of the stalls bedded and ready, especially since they had some horses to move.
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Post by chey on Nov 24, 2008 21:44:49 GMT -5
Tim watched his daughter leave and smile. He was hopping she would make some friends here. It was hard for her without her mother around. He was always there for her for everything. He looked back at crystal."well just give me a second and I will be right there. Do you have wood?" He walked over to his truck and grabed a couple things out of it. There was a little box that keeped anything he needed in there and luckly he still had his powerdrill and some screws in there from there move. He walked back with some screws in his western shirt pocket. He looked at crystal and walked into the barn. He could feel the draft and felt like it was from the roof and some from the side. He walked into everystall until he found a cold spot. He looked at crystal and said" It might be the roofs and it might be the walls, but I will fix both if you have wood to fix it and tim to fix the roof."
Dani helped delia with flag's stall she grabed some bedding and moved it the stall so that delia could rake it. Then grabed a water bucket and filled it up with water for flag. Then untied flag and walked him into the stall and took of the lead and his shipping boots so he could get used to the surroundings. She saw there was a feed ben and ran out to the trailer and grabed the hay bag and his feed and poured it in the feed ben and put his hay in the hay rack as well with alflafa. She looked at the girl and smiled." So what kind of riding do you do? Im all western."
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Post by Savina on Nov 24, 2008 22:00:28 GMT -5
Crystal nodded, and pointed to a shed just behind the barns." There is some wood in there, leftover from repairing the other barn. There should be some tin as well. You really don't know how much I appreciate this." She told him as she watched the girls interact.
Delia smiled gratefully at the girl for helping her set up the stall,and waited while she placed the gelding in it, and removed his shipping boots. There was a small white marker board beside the stall, and Delia picked up the marker beside it, carefully writing the gelding's name on it, and then putting his owners underneath."I ride Both. Secret will do anything." her english was broken, but she was speaking a little louder than before. The only downfall was her accent was more easily heard, and she hoped the girl could easily understand her.
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Post by chey on Nov 24, 2008 22:20:52 GMT -5
Tim smiled and went to the shed and got some wood and began to fix the walls. He found holes that needed to patched up and some things that needed to be screwed in. He found a latter and climb up on the latter and found some things that needed some repairs. It didn't need any more tin on it just on the holes that were there and some cox on them. He grabed some tim and patched up the holes and screwed them in. Grabed the cox and filled in some of the holes that were little to fill up. Once he was finished he climb down the latter and checked the time. It took him a couple hours to finish it. He wonder if she needed anymore help around the barn.
Dani smiled she could some what understand her and nodded her head." I would like to try english, but my father wouldn't let me. He says it looks way to much money. So I keep up with barrel racing, roping, reining, and all that good stuff." She smiled and knew how much a horse ment to someone. She understand that secert was Delia's everything like Flag was her everything. Her father wanted to buy a quarter horse stud and find someone to breed to it so he could make some kind of money. They talked about it and was going to get a Grullo Quarter Stud." My Father is thinking about buying a stud."
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Post by Savina on Nov 24, 2008 22:57:51 GMT -5
Delia nodded."English does cost mucho dinaro, Lot of money.But Crystal teaches cheaply." She told her, carefully wording everything. SHe was getting more comfortable, now that it was just the two of them."Crystal may breed." She told her, and gestured toward the mare barn."Sierra will retire in a few years. Raise foals." She smiled appologetically about her english." You speak Espaniol?" She asked her, and grinned. She was curious if anyone around her could speak a little spanish, she would be willing to help them with it if they wanted to help her with english.
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Post by chey on Nov 25, 2008 21:28:51 GMT -5
" Yeah, I might ask or show up when your riding and maybe you can help me. I had a friend help me all the balance. Its kinda like bareback riding she said i was a natural rider." Dani smiled and undertoode her kinda well. She didn't clearly understand spanish, but knew some." I don't know what we are going to get yet. My father wants a stallion, and he also wants to buy another quarter horse mare so I can train her a work with her. My dad wants a farm really badly because he wants to breed quarter horses and paints. I think we should get a palomino stud and a black mare." She said as she walked out of the barn while her dad was working on it. It didn't feel like there was a draft anymore. She keeped on walking toward the mares barn." Well, No I don't, but I can kinda understand it alittle. I took a spanish class and really didn't do to good in it so they kicked me out of the class. She started laughing and looked at the mare barn. It was so beautiful here she didn't want to leave at all.
Tim took all his tools back to the truck and then found a fence that was downand grabed his gloves out of his pocket and began working on the fence screwing it back to the post. He looked around and went back into the barn and fixed some of the lights in there. Then he was finished. He walked out side and put his tools away and stood back to see how it looked. It looked a hole lot better than it did before. He opened his door and grabed his drink and began to sip it threw the straw.
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Post by Savina on Nov 25, 2008 22:11:28 GMT -5
Delia noded. "I can try, though I am very new." She told her as she followed her toward the mare barn."Sierra." She told her, gesturing to the buckskin mare nearest the door."It is like bareback. Crystal wants to breed Quarter horses and Foxtrotters. Navajo is foxtrotter." She gestured to the pretty sorrel and white paint foal, with Navajo marked on her stall."I am from Mexico, English is very new to me." Delia told her,and smiled as she came up to Secret's stall. Crystal came across the yard, and noticed how much better the fences were looking, and she peered into the stallion barn. She was surprised how much warmer it was already, and turned to see Tom in his truck."Did you guys have lunch yet? Your welcome to join Delia and I."
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Post by chey on Nov 27, 2008 15:32:33 GMT -5
" Really...Well maybe both of you can help me." She smiled and walked toward the mares barn also. She walked over to the quarter mare. " She sure is a beautiful color to her. My dad said quarter horses are great for kids so im kinda stuck there."[b/] She smiled and looked at delia." Well im from wyoming. Well your english is good enough for me!" She smiled and followed delia to secrets stall." Secret and her filly is so beautiful." She smiled. She remebered she just adopted a pinto cross to work with and couldn't wait to start. She was kinda small for her, but she wanted to train her for a kid." I adopted a pinto cross."
Tim looked at her and smiled. Tim got out of his truck and looked at crystal."No we havn't, but we shouldn't bother you guys. Oh I forgot to tell you we are getting a pinto cross shipped here. She is kinda young. So if you don't mind if we keep her here do you?" He looked at her and hopping it wouldn't be a big problem at all. If so they could board the pinto somewhere else." The pinto could stay out in the paddocks."
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