Descriptive Short: The Barn

     This last little thing I'm posting for the night was also from my writing classes. I loved doing this one because I got to describe one of my favorite places: The Barn. Bare with me, this is written in first person, which is not my favorite style to write in, but it was the assignment. But I chose to add this because I thought it showcased my descriptive ability, so here goes, a short descriptive essay on my favorite location, The Barn. :-)

The Barn

                The smell of leather, horses, and sawdust relaxes the senses upon entering the double sliding doors of my parents’ barn. To the right is the tack room, full of many needed equine things, such as saddles, bridles, girths, and bits. To the left when you walk in the barn is a wash stall, complete with running water, although most the time we use the outside wash rack that’s up the hill. Also on the left hand side is the grain room. A large grain tub sits in their full of grain and the coffee cans that my dad uses to dish the grain out to the horses with. The grain room is also home to the pitchfork and the wheel borrows for mucking out the stalls. After these rooms come the eight stalls, home to most of the horses, at least during the hot summer days and cold winter nights. The rest of the horses stay in the fields outside the barn, they have their own small barns called run-in sheds. Just off of the barn, connected to stalls six and eight is a small paddock. This is usually used for mares with foal or at this current moment, Merlin, a new horse we have that can’t go out with the other horses yet. Also around the barn are the sawdust pile, tie rack, tractor, and attached to the tractor the manure spreader. All of these things play an important role in running the barn and the horse farm itself. Many a great day has started by walking into that barn and hearing the nickering of the horses, the barn swallows chirping, and the barn cats coming out to greet visitors.