Sonrise Stable by Vicki Watson

Author:Vicki Watson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horse story, horse book, horse crazy, horse lover, horse series, horses girls, christian horse, homeschool kids
Publisher: Vicki Watson
Published: 2017-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Barn Campout

Rosie licked her lips, savoring the last bite of buttery, salty corn on the cob. After everyone had eaten their fill of the grilled corn, hamburgers, and homemade potato salad, Rosie approached her grandmother. “All of us kids thought it would be fun to camp out in the barn tonight. Can we?”

“It’s fine with me as long as it’s all right with your parents.”

Once they had their parents’ permission, the kids raced upstairs to grab their gear. It took two trips to move everything from the house to the barn—sleeping bags, pillows, flashlights, a camping lantern, Horse-opoly, water bottles, and snacks. Everyone climbed to the top of the newly stacked hay except Jared and Jessie. They stayed below and threw the sleeping bags and pillows up.

Jessie picked up a battery-powered lantern from the barn floor and cocked her arm to throw it up to Rosie.

“No!” Jared grabbed her arm just in time. “Are you crazy? You could kill someone with that thing.”

“We can use that lunge line to pull the bigger stuff up.” Rosie pointed to an extra-long nylon lead rope hanging from a hook on the barn wall.

“Perfect.” Jared picked up the coiled rope, slipped his arm into the loop and pulled it up over his shoulder. He climbed the stack of hay, then leaned out and tied the line to a rafter. “Okay, Jess. When I drop this down, tie your end to the handle of the lantern. As soon as you’re ready, tug on the line, and I’ll pull it up.”

When Jessie had the rope tied, Jared pulled the lantern up. The girls placed it in the center of the assortment of sleeping bags and switched the light on.

“Turn off the barn lights,” Rosie yelled down to Jessie.

The lantern gave off plenty of light in a circle around them, and Rosie could make out the shadowy figures of the horses in their stalls below. She had worried that it might be too hot on top of the hay, but it had cooled down that evening and was quite comfortable in the barn.

“I hope the batteries don’t run out,” Rosie said. “I should have brought an extra set.”

Jared sent the rope back down. “Jess, tie a bucket to that, and put the rest of our stuff in it, then I’ll pull it up.”

After a couple of bucket loads, they had pulled up the Horse-opoly game, flashlights, snacks, and bottles of water.

Jessie scrambled up the bales to join the others. “I wanted to sleep in the hayloft.”

“It’s packed full of hay right now,” Rosie said. “Maybe this fall we can have a campout up there. After we feed some of the hay, there will be room for us.”

As Jared untied the bucket, he looked at the rope attached to the rafters and then down to the ground.

“Oh no.” Rosie rolled her eyes. “What are you thinking?”

Jared grinned. “I bet I could swing down on this.”

“Yeah, and slam right into Scamper’s stall and break every bone in your—.” Rosie stopped.

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