Josiah Reynolds Mystery Box Set 4 (Books 10-12) by Abigail Keam

Author:Abigail Keam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Kentucky
ISBN: 9781732974340
Publisher: Abigail Keam
Published: 2019-08-05T00:00:00+00:00

18

I got stuck with Emmeline again, but I still had to repair and paint my pasture fences, so I gathered up the baby and my Baby, along with Ginger.

Malcolm, one of Charles’ grandsons, met me in the front pasture by the road and helped me lift the pop-up playpen out of my golf cart. Baby jumped out and tried to get into it. I shooed him away and unbuckled the baby from her car seat, put her in one of those bouncy/learn playgrounds toymakers make for babies nowadays, and sat it in the middle of the playpen. “Baby. Ginger. Guard,” I ordered.

Baby sneezed and meekly lay down by the playpen, putting his massive head on his front paws. Within moments, he was lying on his side snoring. Ginger sat beside the playpen alert, taking her guarding duties far more seriously.

Emmeline jumped up and down happily in her bouncy seat, gurgling. As long as she could see me, the baby was content.

“Where are we?” I asked Malcolm.

“All the repairs to the two front pastures are done. I finished this morning. We can paint anytime you want.”

“Do you have the paint sprayers ready?”

“All I’ve got to do is get them out of my truck and pour in the paint.”

“Okay, let’s do it. I’ll take this pasture so I can keep an eye on the baby.”

Malcolm frowned. “Won’t the paint blow on the kid?”

“Don’t worry, Malcolm. I have raised a child of my own, and I used to babysit you, remember?”

Malcolm rubbed his backside. “I sure do.”

I gave him a playful punch on his shoulder. “You know I never gave you a spanking. I just ratted you out to your grandfather when you were bad.”

“That was enough to keep me in line,” said Malcolm, grinning.

“It was like money in the bank to get you to behave.”

Malcolm chuckled while he pulled out the paint sprayers and poured paint into their buckets.

My horse fences were common to the area—six-inch, round oak posts about eight feet apart attached to four sixteen-foot-long horizontal planks. Here’s another little tidbit I bet you didn’t know . . . all horse fences have to be rounded at the corners. There are no right-angle fences where horses are concerned, since they like to run along the fence line. They must have fences that curve so they won’t run into them.

Also, pastures where stallions are kept must have double rows of fences to keep them apart. Stallions are not friendly with one another.

When I was growing up, all farms painted their fences white, but that had died out due to the high cost of repainting them every two years. If you didn’t keep the fences looking pristine, folks knew you had fallen on hard times. Nowadays, most horse fences are painted black with creosote paint because it requires less upkeep and expense.

I was a couple of years overdue for painting my fences. They were looking kind of ratty, but then I had fallen on hard times.

The pasture I was painting used to be home to Comanche.

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