Lean on me

At night I typically put the feed for the am feeding in each horse’s stall. This way I know that they get fed what they are supposed to get fed and so that if I am feeding I don’t get dirty (I have to feed on the days DH works and I’m in my work clothes). Today was a work day for DH so I really wanted to make sure I had the feed ready to go last night.

We had to go set up a round pen for the “Old Settler’s Days” so I wasn’t able to get my am feeding put in like normal. After we were done setting up I decided to go out and get the feed put in each stall for the morning so I wouldn’t be late for work. When I arrived Lucy and Sis were head to butt stomping off the bugs. A storm was moving in and it seems the bugs are always worse before a storm. The horses were miserable so I decided to get some spray and put it on them.

My pasture is split and I have an alley that goes behind the barn and opens up into the pasture I want them to come into. When they are in the “back” pasture they know to go down the alley to come to the barn. When they are in the “front” pasture they don’t like backtracking to the alley to come to the barn so they sit and look at me with sad eyes. As I walked into the barn to get the fly spray Black started to head towards the back of the pasture so she could get to the alley (smart old gal) while the others sat there and looked at me with those big pathetic eyes.

As I come out of the barn I notice that Black has stopped by one of our little trees we planted in the pasture (there are 2) and she’s looking at me. The next thing I know she barrels her shoulder into the tree causing it to bend and then positions herself directly over the tree and rocks back and forth over the top of it to scratch her privates! OMG I was laughing so hard until I realized she was going to uproot my tree!

She finally stopped and stepped off of it so I sprayed down the three horses that were close to me and then headed towards her. I no more then start in her direction and she gets the tree down into position again and “goes to town”. This can’t be the first time she’s done this. Seems she has it down to a science by now. I drag her off of the tree and as I go to spray her she runs off. Little fart!