Friday, March 11, 2011

Barn Olympics

Part of working for the family business is that you take on duties that you'd NEVER consider doing in a "normal" job. In my case, this means helping out with the least glamorous but most necessary task associated with running a large public boarding stable...cleaning stalls three days a week. (I'll spare you all the gory details...for now...Mwahahahaha. Ha.) Busy hands but idle brain leads to stuff like...this.

Welcome to the Stablehand Olympics!

Event #1: Speed Cleaning. Speed event. Completely strip and re-bed dirty stall(s).  Competitors can elect Sprint (one stall), Middle Distance (5 stalls) and/or Marathon (15 stalls).


Event #2: Team Hay Stacking. Teams of five members unload 200 bales of hay and stack in the barn. Points awarded for speed and presentation, deducted for excessive chaff dropped on the ground. 



Event #3: 100 Yard Water Bucket Dash. Speed event. Carry two five-gallon buckets 100 yards, each filled with four gallons of water. Time added for spillage.


Event #4: ?????? 
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  1. Nic NMarch 12, 2011 at 1:17 AM

    Event #4: De-worm & Dash. Timed event. Successfully de-worm 15 horses using one tube of de-wormer per horse. Time limit: 14 minutes. Time added for leftover paste, dropped paste from the horses' mouths, and getting bitten/knocked over/stepped on.

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  2. FionaMarch 12, 2011 at 6:56 AM

    @Nic - YES!!! I remember thinking of that on worming day last month, but I couldn't come up with it at 11:00 last night.

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