Hi everyone! Sorry, I've sucked at blogging for the last year. Between health problems and work, there never seems to be the time/energy
Do you remember back in November 2019 when we very stupidly agreed to babysit a friend of a friend's cows and horses for 6-8 weeks? Well, they finally left at the beginning of March 2021. Fourteen months after they got here! FOURTEEN MONTHS!
WOW!
The guys who own the cows blame the pandemic for how long it took, but really? We think that's just a convenient excuse. Heck, if they'd only been here 6-8 weeks they would of been long gone before the pandemic even hit! They totally lied and played us.
It was a really crappy 10 months (The first 3-4 months were fun). The cow owners only watered their cows for 3 out of the 14 months, so as we aren't complete assholes, we carried down big buckets of water for them every day. In 14 months, the poor animals were never brushed and their feet, teeth etc weren't cared for at all. The animals were so miserable! It was so hard on our hearts seeing the animals so poorly cared for. It was very stressful.
We thought the cows/horses were only going to be here for 6-8 weeks so allowed them to be put in our beautifully manicured camping/BBQ/fire pit area. They destroyed it. They knocked down trees, totaled the firepit., killed our Maypole, ripped Fairy doors off trees and crushed everything in their path.
The guys were supposed to comeback and clean up the mess. We waited 6 weeks and guess what, they didn't come back, so we gave up and started cleaning it ourselves. I asked them to come back and help, and got treated rudely in response.
Let's be honest, they never intended to come back. They totally used us and screwed us. Horrible people.
So, here's some pics
This is a pile of poop that has sat here for about 7-8 months. It's about 4 tons of poop. The cow owners plowed the area last summer and pushed it all into a pile (on our firepit), and then just left it there. They say they couldn't move it out of here because they broke their pickup truck.
The top pic is when we started. the bottom pic is after a week of working on it. We are determined to have it all moved by the end of this week.
This pic shows one of the homes that rodents have made under all the hay that was left on the ground. Wonderful! (insert sarcasm). Hope the cats are up to the flood of rodents hiding under the hay! So gross!
This is a pic of all the hay left on the ground. In places it's about two feet deep. That should be fun for us to clean. Once the mountain of poop is moved, we'll start on the hay.
This pic is of one of my Greenman ornaments. We found it in the middle of the pile of poop. The whole back side of it is gone. It was literally plowed into the giant pile of poop.
This photo shows all the firepit stones and stumps that we have so far pulled out of the pile of poop. The guy literally plowed right over the firepit. We were shocked to find the stumps (We have four stumps around the firepit to use as little tables) literally in the 4 ton pile of poop!
And this last pic is something nice! A woodpecker :) We saw him when we were outside shoveling poop.
