This sad looking little horse barn was here when we moved to this house in 1986. It looked a little better then - but not a lot. Lonnie put it to good use when he owned two Morgan horses, Sky King and Miss Lily.
He would let them in the stalls every morning and night to eat their serving of grain or sometimes bring them under the overhang to groom them or have their hooves trimmed.
The door on the right was to a good hay room that also had a few shelves to store grooming supplies.
The building had electricity but we removed the line a few years ago when it was sagging and the horses had passed on.
For awhile now it has been leaning, leaking and the roof sagging. The floor was buckling upward in the hay room ...it was like stepping onto a sliding board in there!
It wasn't really worth fixing and we were concerned it could collapse and hurt someone - plus it was just so danged ugly.
So, we asked my younger son if he would like to take it down. He agreed and began the job on a broiling hot day.
Here, he already has the over hang off. The posts came up easy but the roof didn't crash down like he expected. It needed a few boards removed.
( this almost looks like that Sasquatch sighting picture, doesn't it?)
He kept the job site tidy...stacking metal for later recycling...putting aside some decent heavy oak boards that someone might be able to use. Everything else came to the burn pile that I was watching and feeding.
It was too hot to work out there more than a few hours. Better to split the job up and start again the next day in the cooler early morning hours.
Unfortunately, this reveals another ugly thing. A truck body on concrete blocks that we use as a shed.
Maybe a good pressure wash and a coat of paint will help it out.
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