horses, aches, pains
Jan. 30th, 2008 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowTemp: a balmy, rainy 40F
Layers: not an issue
Thoughts: why are my hands SO COLD when it isn't even freezing out? ow ow ow what did I do in circus yesterday yo be so sore today?
Each time I let the horses out, I think I know what they are going to do, and each time they go a different way and my heart sinks, and I am sure they are all headed over the horizon and I will have to chase them in the car and bring them back... what? in the back seat of the van? and then they come roaring back into view snorting and bucking and having a great time. I guess if I thought they were really headed AWAY, I'd be a lot more careful with halters and leadshanks and turning on the fence and keeping the gate closed. But the grass is all under 18" of snow and ice, the only stuff to eat is in the paddock, and the only place to roll in the fresh snow and stretch your legs a little is, well, not in the paddock.
This time they all waited til the black thoroughbred mare was turned out, and headed down towards the house, in the rain and the mist. The next thing I knew they were galloping up along the trail, and then out and around again. Again at the end, they all roared into the paddock and settled down almost instantly.
Alice was home from school today, so I had to skip home.
I am so sore it feel like I was beaten. I think it is a combo of stretching and climbing.
Layers: not an issue
Thoughts: why are my hands SO COLD when it isn't even freezing out? ow ow ow what did I do in circus yesterday yo be so sore today?
Each time I let the horses out, I think I know what they are going to do, and each time they go a different way and my heart sinks, and I am sure they are all headed over the horizon and I will have to chase them in the car and bring them back... what? in the back seat of the van? and then they come roaring back into view snorting and bucking and having a great time. I guess if I thought they were really headed AWAY, I'd be a lot more careful with halters and leadshanks and turning on the fence and keeping the gate closed. But the grass is all under 18" of snow and ice, the only stuff to eat is in the paddock, and the only place to roll in the fresh snow and stretch your legs a little is, well, not in the paddock.
This time they all waited til the black thoroughbred mare was turned out, and headed down towards the house, in the rain and the mist. The next thing I knew they were galloping up along the trail, and then out and around again. Again at the end, they all roared into the paddock and settled down almost instantly.
Alice was home from school today, so I had to skip home.
I am so sore it feel like I was beaten. I think it is a combo of stretching and climbing.
