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63. Everybody pitches in to do evening barn chores so that's about 30 minutes of intense exercise

Mon Nov 19, 2012, 07:20 PM

Nov 2012

Then we have coffee and desserts while we play card games like Michigan Poker for a couple of hours.

For me though, its all of us pitching in together to take care of the animals that's my favorite part. Even my 80 year old mom helps - she loves to scoop grain and hear the whickering of the horses as their dinner arrives. Little ones get to throw hay down the hay drops and push brooms around (I don't care if it gets clean, its the exercise and the "doing it together" part that matters).

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