This message is from: "jgayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Great story Teressa, can not think of a thing except maybe separate the two so only one genius is at work!!!! Jean G
Jean Walters Gayle Aberdeen, WA Author:The Colonel's Daughter Occupied Germany 1946-49 $20 PO Box 104 Montesano, WA 98563 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teressa Kandianis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 5:57 PM Subject: Pasture Pigs > This message is from: "Teressa Kandianis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now that I'm taking a lesson once a week and now that our weather is back to > drenching rain and my pasture is a water world, Nina and Merit both are > usually black on one side. Our first wet week, I brought Nina into the barn > overnight so that she would be clean and dry for our lesson. Fuzzy, maybe, > but clean. That worked great. The next week was cold so the pasture was > frozen and she was clean for her lesson. Week 3 was wet so Nina spent > Wednesday night in the barn. Come Thursday morning, go to the barn to get > her loaded and she's dirtier than Merit who spent the evening in the rain > and mud. She'd knocked over her water and swirled up a muddy mess and then > rolled in it in the barn - couldn't have been too long before sun up as she > was still quite wet and muddy. We went to our lesson very dirty. It was > embarressing to say the least. > > So last weekend I spent Saturday shopping for horse things including a > pasture blanket for Nina. Wednesday night was a wet one so Wednesday night > I put on the blanket and Nina stayed out in it overnight. Thursday morning, > all her mud was dry and could be brushed out so she was halfway presentable. > Its still pouring when we get home from the training barn, so I think, heck, > I'm going to keep her blanketed so she stays clean all the time. Friday > morning, as usual, the first waking act is to look out our bedroom window > down into the pasture. We say our two light colored fjords waiting by the > gate to go in the grassy pasture. But wait. Didn't Nina have on a dark > blue blanket? With two buckles across the chest, two straps around the > belly and two legstraps in the back? Mark recovered the frozen trampled > blanket and put it in the tackroom to thaw. The buckles were intact but > unbuckled. The underside was covered with muddy hoof prints. The leg > straps were still connected and the back of the tail cover had been severely > chewed. Nothing was broken per se but obviously they had spent the evening > hours getting Nina undressed. Once she has accomplished something like > this, whatever has been molested has to be upgraded as she just gets better > and quicker each subsequent time. Does anyone have suggestions for some > safe way to better secure the blanket? > > Yours in mud, Teressa in now frozen Ferndale, WA
