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your 'baby.' And everything's maturing. You
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in respect for the way Bluegrass builders
raised their barns decades, or even more
than a century, ago.
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did it right. They were very conscious about
wind directions and sun angles and drainage.
They put their barns in the right places, and
they turned them in the right directions. So
when the colder winter winds blow, it's hit-
ting the skinny end of the building. Then in
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blowing, they're hitting the broad side of the
building so it will provide cooling through
the stalls.
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equipment to move a lot of dirt. I don't real-
ly understand [the need for that today]. The
old guys didn't do it, so I try not to do it, ei-
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Esarey once overcame the challenge of a
horse farm restoration where the main pas-
ture of the property had been turned into
a Christmas tree farm but never harvested.
He and Caron are currently working on up-
grades at Sumaya US Stable's farm in Paris,
Kentucky, where old tobacco-drying barns
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