The Feeling that Makes you Go Oooh...

Yesterday was a neat day. Instead of working on my dreaded graduate thesis, I made phone calls, appointments, and did "other" non-school related things. What should have been a working day, turned into everything but working day!

After being exhaused from all my errands, I decided I needed some "Barn" time. To us country girls, and in laymans terms -- I needed some quality time with my horse. To mothers -- this would equal out to shopping time without the kids, to most men this would equal out to fishing and a case of beer, to me -- it is just time for me and my pony! Love it!

At the barn I proceeded to finish chores before I saddled up and had a good ride, but not amazing--just good. It was satisfactory and I got some things accomplished. Following that, I felt in the mood to spiffy up my munchkin (seeing as the mom was coming down tomorrow...) So I got out the clippers and got rid of all the unsightly wiskers and unwanted hair on our face, ears, and legs. We looked georgeous -- her all hairless and me COVERED in her pokey yellow hair! We were quite a team!

Then I decided that my DIRTY yella horse, needed bath and seeing as it was 6pm and still 70 something degrees outside -- we went for it! The only problem with giving a cold water bath to a horse is that feeling you get when you are up there scrubbing the soap and dirt out from their high neck and back and you feel the water from the hose run down your entended arm right on down to your armpit. It is a feeling that makes you shrink up like a little old lady hunkered down and makes you go "oooh". Just about any horse person can verify and relate this odd feeling.

Anyway, by 7:30 in the evening she was clean, I was gross, and and we were both ready for dinner. Hers of course came first, mine later, but the day overall proved to be very productive....even if it wasn't "school" productive.