hey I'm Maesyn. Im 16. I live on a farm that I have created, alone. With help from my grandparents. My dads a lawyer and wants nothing to do with my animals. He doesn't help pay anything for them, or take care of them. My mom died when I was ten, he...
I woke up and threw my boots on. I went to the cow barn. I hooked the gate and got all the cows up and pushed them to the milling area. I hooked them all up and then went back in to muck the stalls and add fresh feed. I got the other cows ready and let the other cows back. I shut the gate and went around to open the other gate. They came in and I hooked them up. I went and mucked the stalls.
Dillan: it's 7:30. Maesyn: welcome to my life. Dillan: it's a Saturday. Maesyn: yeah? Dillan: Saturdays we don't do cows till nine. Maesyn: it's different doing chores when you do them alone. Dillan: true.
I gave them new food. I brought them back. I locked the gate. I went to check on the calves. Normally Kelli does them. I went to the milk room and made their bottles. I bottle fed each one.
Dillan: you do them one by one?
I showed him my hands. He was feeding one too.
Dillan: ah I see.
I continued, he helped, until we had fed all ten. I washed the bottled and then went out. We went to the horse barn. I fed them. After I grabbed the old buckets and washed them out.
Dillan: so what are you gonna do today? Maesyn: I am going to Finnish my lean to stalls. So if you don't want to stay you don't have to. Dillan: you do it all by yourself? Maesyn: yeah. Dillan: Damn.
I put the buckets upside down on the shelf in the feed room. I opened the pasture gate and the doors, letting them connect and then opened all the stall doors, letting the horses all run out. After I mucked the stalls and laid fresh bed. And then I added water. I went and got the eggs and washed them off them put them in the barn fridge. I shut it off and went inside. I showered and put this on,
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I blow dried my hair and then braided it and put the hat on. I went down and made breakfast and we ate together. We went outside.
Maesyn: I only have one drill. Dillan: I'm gonna run home and shower. I'll be back in two hours.
I nodded. I grabbed my tool belt. I strapped it on as I walked up to the ladder. I picked up the ladder and laid it against the pole. I put the tin in a row. I climbed up, holding one above my head and pushing it up. I got it up and slid it away. I pulled up the next one and laid it next to the one I just laid down. I did that until I had the top full. I nailed them down. I climbed down. I had gotten just the right amount of tin. It looked good. I made sure the doors were good. Then I went back to the barn. Ten minutes later Dillan walked in.
Dillan: done already? Maesyn: I don't do things slow. I do things fast enough to get them done so I can move on to the next thing.
I went to the garden. I had just taken almost everything out of it. I picked the pumpkins and placed them by the cow barn doors, the horse barn doors and on the deck. After, I went and grabbed my camera.
