Always SOMETHING . . .

This morning while I was hauling the cart I use to clean Lizzie's stall out to dump it in the back pasture I saw the doors to the storage building wide open! . . . both the back doors AND the front one!!!  That's the building Duke got stuck in 6 months or so ago, so I dropped everything and went up to close the doors and good grief!! . . . inside there were piles of horse poo and virtually everything in there is in pieces! 

Can you believe!  What a disaster!!

There was a LOT of broken glass and metal pieces that used to be who-knows-WHAT laying all over the floor in there!!!  Pretty darned terrifying.  I'm amazed that whichever horse/mule was hanging out in there hadn't gotten cut or gotten something stuck in their feet!

 

The back door at the top of the ramp that they used to use to store the mower in that building is supposed to be closed with a 2 X 4 through those metal things on the inside but I couldn't find any wood anywhere in there to lock it closed!  So I picked up an electrical "something" that's gotten bent and probably no longer works anyway and stuck that through those attachments on the inside of the doors and wound the electrical cord back and forth to hold it in place (see below).  Not very appropriate, but probably effective until Mark gets home Wednesday.

 

No idea what that is that I stuck in there to keep those back doors closed,
but I hope they stay shut until someone can clear that place out!!
(See the poo there at the corner of that big metal square thing? 
Obviously SOMEONE was hanging out in there!)

We had planned to have the roof replaced - it got messed up in the last hurricane.  But at this point that building looks like it needs to be cleared out inside WAAAAY more than the roof needs to be replaced!!!

 

Believe it or not, that building used to be a guest house when we first bought the place.  That room on the back left in the photo below is a bathroom, and on the front left side of the building there is (or used to be) a kitchen.  But that building used to sit just 15 or 20 feet directly behind the house.  So having acreage didn't seem too important when all you could see looking out all the back windows and doors was another building -- like living in the city right next to another house!  So we got it moved.  But now it has no electricity and no sewer or water back there at the moment.  We thought about getting those added, but hey -- our house is 3000 square feet and there are just the two of us!  And the entire upstairs works as a guest suite so why the heck would we need a separate guest house???

 

Well, the place has deteriorated so far at this point that I don't think it's even THAT good a storage building any longer.  Sigh.

 

 

There was a flat metal thing with wheels on it that we used to put large plants on when we had them on the front porch that was sitting outside the front door of that building.  It made it way easier for them to step right up into the building from the front, as well.  So I lifted it up and leaned it against the door in hopes that if they try and go in that door it will fall over and scare them off!  I hope.  Because that front door doesn't latch no matter how hard you close it.  All they need to do to open it is just push on it!  NOT good.

 

 

I sure don't want any of the horses to lean up against that door for any reason!  There are huge nails sticking out that used to fasten the old steps on there before the building got moved. 

 

 

If it ever stops raining I think I'll go find a hammer and at least hammer those nails flat against the board before I let the horses back out of their paddocks.  Until then they won't be able to get anywhere near that building again.  Good thing.  Gees!