muck day messy dayI guess I don’t need to put Read Mores anymore since Tumblr does that weird

muck day messy dayI guess I don’t need to put Read Mores anymore since Tumblr does that weird post-shrink thing now huh.So only Teenager Girl was here in the morning, and her brother, who will hay the horses but that’s all. I did grain, then started with putting the horses out: Teengirl put out a few horses but then went about feeding them.So. I forgot to ask if the pasture gates should be open, since. They were all open. So I just started putting horses out. And then Teengirl was like, after I had two pastures out: “Oops, those are supposed to be closed.”Goddammit.So she started closing gates while I went and got Buff and Ves. Buff repeatedly tried to stampede me but I eventually got him. His own need to eat the halter worked against him because it got stuck on his teeth when he tried to pull away so I was able to drag him out of the pasture, then get Ves and bring him in as well.Where they both just chewed on me and then calmly went to eat hay.horses.By the time I got them in, Teengirl was chasing Fancy and Sonya around the field. I went to help because Fancy was just avoiding Teengirl and helped chase her in. She bucked and cantered angrily and bit Sonya in the ass the entire way back into the pen and nearly chased her into the gate. horses. horrible.But after that it was relatively smooth. We put horses. Wherever they would fit, basically. I think all the big pastures were changed up. Everything was kind of a mess today.I brought Dakota with me when I brought Essie out and she just sort of wandered off. But a small child who was helping put out hay stopped her, and I just guided her down to her gate, where she went inside.Poor old lady misses her friend.We mucked. Mucking went quickly, and I ended up helping on partner’s side too. Once that was done I got Jaeger and cleaned his hooves - he was still inside because Hale was used for a lesson - and then brought him and his brother up to a pasture. Partner brought in the usual gang, and I cleaned up Quattro and Q, then put Q in their paddock for now and took Quattro up to the arena. We did lots of running today. We had a really loose day and just. Ran a lot. It was nice, honestly, to just. Run a lot, and not really think.But it also meant I had to rinse Quattro down. He seemed to appreciate it, though, since I didn’t have to tie him up or anything and he just stood under the water. As always seemed to really like the squeegie part.So then I stopped to try and record some horses being idiots in the distance. And after about ten seconds Quattro leans in behind me and firmly headbutts my back, in a very “let’s go” kind of way. So I ended up giving in and just walking inside with him.He’s such a pushy, weird horse. I had to chase him out of stalls repeatedly because he was being a food thief, too.But uh. So we fed all of them their food, and while they were eating, partner clipped Zara’s mane. She. Absolutely hates the shaver. Gets really anxious at the sound of it and freaks out a little about it touching her. So I had to hold her while partner shaved her mane down.She kept eating though. Big terrified eyes while her jaws furiously munch up the grain in her feedbag. Troublehorse.Once that was done they got to go out to the trail again, though, and they were happy about that, even though Q almost murdered me because he thought the halter was attacking him when it got briefly stuck in his flymask, and he like. Flung his head and jumped and freaked out, then immediately stopped when he realized what it was. Almost threw me into the fence, though.It was a good day, though. Full, busy, and not exactly. Without problems, but hey. Didn’t die, and all the horses seemed happy. And at the end of the day that’s what it’s all about. -- source link

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