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dancing_crow) wrote2010-01-03 08:07 pm
dancing_crow) wrote2010-01-03 08:07 pm
awesomeity
Why is it that doing normal things in subprime conditions is exhilarating? Well, when it isn't going to kill you?
I took Rachel and Bob out on the Canadian mares yesterday, in the blowing blizzard, and we were laughing like loons the whole time. The road was too icy to go far, so we turned around in <20 yards and retreated to the ring. Every time I got off to open a gate or pick up somebody's something that had fallen, my saddle got snowy, and I couldn't ever get all the snow off it, so it would melt onto me once I got back on, plus more snow coming down on me, and melting. Even with lots of long underwear and good socks it got chilly. But fun! and stupid!! and really really fun!!
Then today I meant only to give Bully a treat and leave him, but he was such a pain to catch to give him the treat (out by mistake, I think, in the realllyBIGfield, and he made we walk ALL OVER IT) that I took him in and rode him once I had him. Cold and blowy, but he settled into work and we swung along pretty well except for the door where the tinysnowplow!eek!! had gone out and he had to check each time we went past to see where it had gone. Because, you know, those things Eat Horses, especially the Unwary kind.
And home to where I launched my offsping up the climbing wall, and finally took Aerin up on her offer to belay me, which was fine except for the first part of the letting down, where she realized she was used to her peers, who weigh roughly 50lbs less then her fat mama, and the first couple feet were.... well, I shrieked, and she apologized, and I think she is still a little worried that she might have broken her mom. I, however, found all the rest of the process exhilarating (see? stupid things again) and I am thinking I might get some climbing shoes and a harness, so I can belay people and climb without always paying the gym for things. Because, WOW! that was intense, and kinda fun. Friends showed up with their daughters as well, and we had a regular free-for-all and it was great.
I took Rachel and Bob out on the Canadian mares yesterday, in the blowing blizzard, and we were laughing like loons the whole time. The road was too icy to go far, so we turned around in <20 yards and retreated to the ring. Every time I got off to open a gate or pick up somebody's something that had fallen, my saddle got snowy, and I couldn't ever get all the snow off it, so it would melt onto me once I got back on, plus more snow coming down on me, and melting. Even with lots of long underwear and good socks it got chilly. But fun! and stupid!! and really really fun!!
Then today I meant only to give Bully a treat and leave him, but he was such a pain to catch to give him the treat (out by mistake, I think, in the realllyBIGfield, and he made we walk ALL OVER IT) that I took him in and rode him once I had him. Cold and blowy, but he settled into work and we swung along pretty well except for the door where the tinysnowplow!eek!! had gone out and he had to check each time we went past to see where it had gone. Because, you know, those things Eat Horses, especially the Unwary kind.
And home to where I launched my offsping up the climbing wall, and finally took Aerin up on her offer to belay me, which was fine except for the first part of the letting down, where she realized she was used to her peers, who weigh roughly 50lbs less then her fat mama, and the first couple feet were.... well, I shrieked, and she apologized, and I think she is still a little worried that she might have broken her mom. I, however, found all the rest of the process exhilarating (see? stupid things again) and I am thinking I might get some climbing shoes and a harness, so I can belay people and climb without always paying the gym for things. Because, WOW! that was intense, and kinda fun. Friends showed up with their daughters as well, and we had a regular free-for-all and it was great.