You’re never going to guess what I encountered this morning, as I entered the Barnyard to work on my writing?  Water rushed past me, on both sides, as I opened the door.  Tilly literally floated by me inside a bucket half filled with water!  Her tiny craft simply rode the waves along, all the way out into the courtyard, where it tipped over with a splash, ejecting a giggling mouse passenger out onto the grass.

I turned back around to look inside the barn once more, only to see Squagon in the middle of the room atop another water-filled bucket.  There was water pouring at a steady pace, from a hose that had been strategically placed in the rafters near the back of the barn.  The tiny creature seemed like he’d just finished an energy drink, from the fierce half-crazed look in his eyes, along with twitching ears and vibrating whiskers!  His bucket had been so full of water that even after I’d opened the door and allowed most of lake to escape, Squagon still sat perched upon his waterlogged craft!

Not far behind the nut job was Dinky, bobbing up and down gently in her little bucket… she seemed quite pleased with the state of things… no shame in her game, as they say!  The only reason she and her bucket remained in the room, was because of Squagon’s giant bucket of water, blocking her exit.

Looking through the open window at the back of the room, I spied Boomer standing with a leaf blower in his hands.  Apparently, he’d been assisting with a bit of wind effect to propel the tiny crafts around the barn pool. 

This is a barn full of differing creatures, each have their own style of eating, playing, sleeping, growing and yes… bathing.  Somehow, in their tiny little heads, filling the barn with water, riding boat buckets around in circles with a leaf blower for wind and waves, was a collectively agreeable way to both play and get clean… all in one… to save ME time in our morning routine!

While this activity seems like it should be a major catastrophe, it’s only water and it will dry up… now that I’ve turned the water off.  They ARE all clean, and their barn DOES look and smell better.

All in all, I think it could have been much worse… and I have to give them all top marks for being creative!