The first saddle:
It's been almost a month since the horrible forest fire that destroyed our stable and razed the paddock. The grass still is singed and the paddock fence is halfway burned to dust. The stable is another story. Once roomy and comfortable, the stable is now burned to a crisp. My aunt offered to let me stay with her, but I declined since she didn't have any where for my boys to stay sheltered. My poor neravontii and I have been living together inside my house. Yes, I said inside my house.
During the day I let them stay in the field next to the paddock, but since it's been especially rainy at night, I've been keeping them inside my living room to sleep in. Begrudgingly in the beginning, they had finally agreed to come inside, all the while complaining. My auntil is fairly lucrative and I have always been her favorite niece, so she is loaning me the money to start fresh and rebuild my stable; my livelihood and my family. She wanted to hire workers but I declined. I told her that I am perfectly capable of rebuilding the stable myself. Drenched with sweat, my hair swinging in my eyes, and dirt splotches everywhere on my aching body, I had finally finished nailing in the last nail of the tack shed. I started withe the easiest projects, the tack shed and the paddock fence, which I have just finished. Tack clutters my whole entire house at the moment. Now, I finally swing the last of my tack, besides one saddle into the tack shed, freeing up my living room space for the neravontii to live. I guess I'll have to cave and let my aunt hire some workers to assist me. "Ugggggg," I hate caving to anybody.
I figure that since nothing seems to be going my way lately, trying and failing to put a saddle on Autumn won't be a big surprise, so I might as wel l get it over with now. Clouds pass over my head. I better hurry or we will be drenched in a night rain. Autumn seems excited. He graciously let me slide the saddle blanket on him, even hurrying me along. Maybe this will go better than I anticipated. I lean against the paddock fence, sturdy. I'm proud of my work And I breath a sigh of relief that my hard work actually held together and I wouldn't have to cave to my aunt to hire workers to help me hire workers for the fence as well as the stable. Autumn stuffs his nose between my hand and the saddle, oviously wanting me to g rt on with it. "OK boy, here we go," I whisper as I push the saddle on to his back and bucket it on. His head rises with pride and prowess. "Wow thanks autumn I really needed something to go my way," I smile at him and and he replies with a self-congratulatory look upon his face.