Mouse in the Horse Grain

Today, when I walked outside to feed our 3 horses their morning hay and grain, they came running over toward the pasture gate, and paced back and forth, neighing for attention to be fed. As I opened the door to the horse trailer, where we keep their grain in a large 30 gallon trash can, I reached in to grab their individual 3 cup containers. I SAW A MOUSE, running around the inside of the trash can as if it were in a circular, caged, circus type bike riding ball. Of course, I yelled and slammed the trailer door shut, ( nobody was home to replace me of the feeding duty) and tried to run away, but I couldn't because I was wearing my son's size 12 cowboy boots,( you know , I just slipped them on for temporarily walking out to feed them and back to the house.) I turned and looked at the horses and thought, "Sorry, no grain for you this morning", BUT they were making their neighing plea's for their grain treat and all standing in they spots to eat while looking at me with 3 sets of big brown eyes. So, this suburban girl, grit my teeth, turned around, opened the trailer door again and sheepishly peeked into the grain container. Yep, mouse still there! I reluctantly tipped the almost empty container toward the opened door and quickly stepped back, and watched the mouse, eewwww , jump into the grass/weeds outside the door. Once again thinking to myself, " What am I doing here, living in the country, feeding horses and dealing with mice????." Wishing we still had those 20 barn cats that were living here last year. This is sooo not me!! Then I filled their grain cups and walked over to the horses and poured the grain into their bowls. At least THEY are happy! Three out of four of us is not a bad statistic. Now I'm taking off to buy more horse grain and chicken feed .

I'm not a farm/ranch kind of girl. Give me the suburbs. It's nice to visit but I don't want to live here......... its dusty with the dirt roads that everyone, in these here parts, rides down at 60 miles an hour, where is the cement? There are many huge horse flies that bite me when I feed our horses. A skunk and her babies were crossing the road this evening, my husband suggested that he shoot them?? Then my husband caught 3 bees flying above our dinner table, and threw them outside?? I would have killed them with the fly swatter, and ignored the skunks, that's what we do in the suburbs. I swept and washed all the floors and vacuumed the carpet yesterday and today I sweep up a dust pan full of hay pieces and dirt from my once clean floors 24 hours earlier, that my husband and son dragged in. They both politely took their shoes off before entering the house but the hay was stuck to their socks and pants and shirts due to stacking bales of hay in the old barn that feeds the horses.  I like sodded grass with nicely trimmed bushes, not knee high grass/weed growth that our horses graze on when we take them out of they 2 1/2 acre pasture and into the portable, temporary pastures ,either in our front yard or side yard, then they leave huge piles of horse poop to look at  and that's the reason I never wanted a large dog, large poop in the yard, but horse poop is 10x larger.  Don't get me started............ I want to go home. Maybe if I close my eyes and click the heels of my ruby slippers 3 times and repeat," There's no place like home, there's no place like home", then maybe I'll wake up back in the suburbs