> We're back to rain today.  More mud!
 
Yep we get it too..  footing is now reasoble again, but we're still damp.
 
> There's a spot in my paddock that
> just won't drain this year for some reason.  I suspect it's because we've
> had so much rain that the ground is totally saturated.
 
Or to compisition of the ground underneath it.. and/or no drainage around it.
 
> finally decided that walking over it is preferable to staying outside and
> not getting her dinner (g).  I'm going to turn them out this a.m., rain
> or no, with their turnouts on.  They can't spend the entire winter
> inside, you know!
 
Yep, Tush has been funny off and on about puddles.. it doesn't last though.. 
and (Drum roll).....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I put a saddle on her tonight! One second of "Hey!!!".. then she went back to 
fiddling around with a chain that was hanging there..
 
She was full blown YeeHAA! when I first got her out today.. then down to 
rearing when I cinched up the syringle to get her used to it again..  
 
She was so sassy.. I had to remind her of her manners in the small pen while 
I had her there.  Got the edge WELL off before I left tonight! :) 
 
 
> BK :>Hee hee! Tush is funny about a lot when she's got a head of
> BK :>steam going.. but when she settles down I can do just about
> BK :>anything with her.. when things clear up and she settles
> BK :>down I intend to take her over to the LAPD barn and gun
> BK :>train her.
 
> Wow!  Gun train!  That's not something we think a lot about here.
 
I thinks it's very very practial.. especially since I love the high desert 
for trail riding and there are rattle snakes... not to mention some of the 
locals around the stable at night.. not a good neightborhood. :/.  
 
> During
> hunting season, we all stay home anyway, for fear those wondrous hunters
> will shoot us, mistaking us for deer!  Have been reading in rec.eques.
> about ways to prevent your h orses from becoming hunter fodder...one
> suggestion is to paint HORSE in bright orange letters on your poor
> beasts.  Is there something wrong with this picture??
 
Yep.. stupid is as stupid does, for all aspects of life. 
 
 
> Vermont??  MA and NH got hit really hard...some people were without power
> until yesterday.  We're close enough to the coast that we got rain, but
> just a few more miles inland got clobbered.  That really wet snow that
> takes out everything in its path.
 
Wow! Well I guess you'd still rather have those then earthquakes.. ;)
 
 
> BK :>Well you know this happens.. ought to plan for it.. ;)
 
> Yep.  Lots of cancellations (g).  Seems some of these girls have a real
> aversion to cold....one is cancelling outright for the winter, another
> will come every other week to do non-riding stuff with me (we're working
> on a book I wrote for her...she's doing the illustrations).  It's kind of
> hard finding non-riding things for the older ones to do...you can only
> clean so much tack (g)!  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
 
Will sti down and answer tomorrow night.. need to get some sleep.. hard to 
unwind the past few nights.. :/. 
 
 
> BK :>BA! HUMBUG is all you'll get out of me..  and don't forget
> BK :>to take one of those Meg in front of the firing squad
> BK :>pictures with the hangover.. ;)
 
> Geez...some people never forget anything (g)!
 
;)
 
> Hope to get at least some
> reasonable pix with the digital camera and make a lot of copies to send
> all you guys.  Did I ever send you any of Shiloh?  And you haven't seen
> any of Porky Pig (aka, Fiddle) in some time.
 
Works for me.. I guess it's time to try and find a way to get some of Tush.. 
CJ still looks like CJ! :) She's in Dapple queen mode right now. ;) 
 
She's also a tad sore from getting (ahem) carried away with herself the other 
night when I lunged her to take the edge off..  
 
Straw was SUPPERB tonight! :)
 
 
> BK :>Oh course you won't catch me like that.. :)
 
> Oh, no.....of course not!  I've pretty much given up drinking...can't
> stand the way I look and feel the next day (g)!
 
Well as someone that gets pretty silly on 1 & 1/2 beers.. what do I need to 
drink for? Now several years ago I could put away between 1/2 and one pint of 
cognac in an evening with no hangover! :)
 
Drinking usually screws up my alergies.. so I just don't drink. :/.
 
 
                                    BK 
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