Mandy wakes up in the morning to the sounds of chirping birds, a light breeze, and animals making noises to greet the new day.Mandy wakes up in the morning to the sounds of chirping birds, a light breeze, and animals making noises to greet the new day. She takes a quick shower and gets dressed in her flannel shirt, denim jeans, and high leather boots. She goes downstairs to feed the animals and do some of the regular chores that are required of a hired hand. When she is through feeding the chickens, pigs, dogs, and horses, she begins the arduous chore of hand grooming the horses - all 12 of them. It takes her about half an hour on each, and she still has to clean out a coop and fill the water troughs for the animals. While grooming the horses, she can smell their scents, hear their whinnying, their chewing on their cud, and the flies that also inhabit the stables by day. The smells turn her on the most. She likes riding horses, that is why she took the job - so she could work with horses. She likes long rides that are peaceful and undisturbed... It is late afternoon when she is almost through. She didn't stop for lunch because she got wrapped up in her work and the boss was out of town on business. He was due back the next day. By the time she is through, it is about 6:00 p.m. When she is through with dinner (and a good one at that), she steps outside to breathe the fresh air and stare at the stars. Having been brought up in the country (on her father's farm before she moved out when she turned 20), she learned a lot about doing such chores, and other things to boot. She remembered how, when she was just a child, her father and she would lay on the grass and he would point out constella- tions, planets, shooting stars, and other neat things. |