<div class="floatleft">(http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh605/JennyFive69/Michael_zps27ecb800.jpg)</div>Michael sighed as he wiped the sweat off his brow.  While he had several strong workhands in the fields, he had always been someone that believed in being very hands on when running his farm.  So any time that he didn't have to spend running the numbers and making sure that he was making enough money to put food in the mouths of his family and his employees, he was out in the fields with said employees.  Looking around, he took stock of what he was seeing.  The only female of the group, Bailey, had just tripped up Conner, one of the younger stallions, making the rest of the group laugh.  He paused a bit as he looked at Bailey.  It was hard to deny that he found the only female workhand attractive and had thought more than once about making a pass at her.  But he was married, had been since he was a young man, and he loved his wife Michelle with all his heart.  However, there had always been a bit of an issue between them in the bedroom.  It wasn't that he couldn't get it up, it was just that she wasn't nearly aggressive enough for him, choosing to just lay there and let him do whatever he wanted, which was no fun at all he felt.<br/><br/>Shaking his head as he tried to avoid thinking about sex in the middle of a field, he looked over at the older stallions, Dominic and Roman, both of whom had gotten over the jokes and were returning to work.  Both of them had worked well for him for nearly ten years and they were almost like brothers to him in a sense.  It wasn't uncommon for him to head out to the barn and enjoy a couple of drinks with them at the end of the work day.  As for Conner and young Nicholas, they had only been hired on last summer and were still starting to blend into the group bit by bit.  Neither of them seemed overly comfortable around him just yet though, so he tried to stay out of their way most of the time so they were grow more comfortable before he got too friendly with them.  Sooner or later, they'd get there, he knew, and then maybe he'd have enough to play some poker with.<br/><br/>He smiled as he saw his daughter appear among the workers with water for them.  She had just turned 18 and was absolutely gorgeous like her mother.  The only problem was how shy she was.  She didn't seem to like anyone, even other family members, and she went out of her way to avoid other people.  It worried him how little she dealt with other people, but he just assumed she'd get over it soon and when she did, she'd find herself a good husband and hopefully have a better marriage than he and her mother had.  Shaking his head, he pulled his hat back on and started the tractor back up so that he could get the fields plowed.<br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh605/JennyFive69/Dominic_zpsf9f22e6c.jpg)</div>Dominic was still chuckling as he got back to work.  Poor Conner was once again the victim of Bailey's little pranks, a thing that seemed to be more and more common lately.  It was his fault that he didn't seem to be too good at sticking up for himself and Bailey was someone that pretty much knew what she could and couldn't do.  For instance, she knew she couldn't pull those kinds of pranks on him.  He was stronger than Conner, more authoritative and while Bailey would throw the odd joke at him here and there, she knew that there was a line and she didn't cross it.  Just like he knew that there was a line with her.  She would take any manner of joke, hell she sometimes even let one of them touch her a bit, but it never ever crossed a line.<br/><br/>Picking up a heavy bail of hay, he had to shift slightly as Haley went through with water for everyone.  The girl had really blossomed over the last ten years into a beautiful young woman.  She was painfully shy, always had been, but he didn't worry about that since he had no interest in her outside of the fact that she was Michael's daughter and he looked out for her when she was around.  Someday, he was sure that she would make some guy very happy, but first she had to get over her shyness, something that he was trying to figure out a way to do.  Maybe he'd start talking to her one of these days and just see if she would make conversation with him if given no other option.  It might be a bit harsh, but it was a start and sometimes that was all you needed.<br/><br/>Suddenly, some movement from the house caught his eye.  Looking, he saw Michael's wife Michelle in the window, watching them.  Now there was an interesting thing.  He had always held a slight attraction to the woman, but out of respect for Michael, he had always stayed away from her.  But lately, he'd noticed her staring out at them more and more.  He didn't know what to make of it at first, but the more he noticed it, the more he wondered what was going on.  Michael had always complained that their sex life was rough.....maybe that had something to with it.  Shaking the thoughts out of his head, he turned his attention back to the work at hand.  There were still three more fields to clear and they only had about a month to do it before the winter frosts started to kick in.<br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh605/JennyFive69/Connor_zps7a1e4b46.jpg)</div>Conner sighed as he pulled himself out of the dirt.  This was the fourth time in the last month that Haley had tripped him up when he wasn't looking.  If he didn't know better, he'd have thought that the mare was hitting on him, but he'd spent enough time around the others to know that she did this sort of thing to all of them, minus Dominic who she did her best to mess with without really messing with him.  That in mind, he wondered why she was targeting him over Nicholas, who was the youngest of the group and probably a much easier target.  Shaking his head, he put his attention back on work, which today was just hailing hay into the barn.  It was exhausting work, but it paid well and the fact that Dominic and Roman had been here for nearly a decade seemed to indicate that he could count on having this job for a long time.  Something he was grateful for since he doubted he'd find much else work around here.  Most farms these days mostly used machines, leaving less and less work for guys like him.<br/><br/>If he hadn't found this job, he would've been forced to either leave the state or take work as a race horse and those horses had it really bad.  Poor feeding, shittier work, he would've ended up quitting within a week.  But on a lark from his friend, he had come down this way with Nicholas and was surprised that both of them had gotten a job.  And even more surprised when they had kept it through the winter, which was typically when workhorses were let go and told to come back when the spring hit.  Of course, most of the time they never got hired back, so they moved on to another farm.  But they had been kept on through the winter, him, Nicholas, Conner, Dominic, and Haley, helping out here and there where they could to ease the stress on Michael and Michelle.  And when the Spring hit, it was back to work full time, not that he was complaining as it was a job.  And that's all he really cared about......having a job......