Today!

OK. I don't feel like typing this post as much as I did the last one, but I'll do it anyway.
It was sprinkling outside, and it was 52 degrees outside! Luckily I remembered to wear long pants, and a warm jacket. My lead rope and halter were still wet from yesterday. I went out there, and after I caught her, I remembered not to start immediately. Ha ha! So I started out as usual, petting her, blowing in her nose, and of course flexing.
After a few minutes of loving on her, I desensitized Valley to the Handy Stick and String. She did pretty good, except for the front legs, she is always bad at them, I don't like doing them either. Valley started to jump back and rear up (just once or twice, and not HUGE rears). She finally calmed down after she realized that I wasn't doing anything different when she did that. I just kept swinging the string around her front legs (or at least tried to, the string kept getting stuck when we walked through some tall grass), and sometimes I was singing the Miley Cyrus song 'I Miss You'.

When I finally finished with the handy stick and string, I did a little bit of disengaging the hindquarters. Then I moved on to the last exercise of the day, the most dreaded exercise of the day; desensitizing to the lead rope! Sorry, that was kind of dramatic wasn't it, well not really. It made that exercise sound like one of the worst things in the world. But it's not, I've had worse, like getting hit in the head with a real metal army helmet that came dropping from my cousin John's hands who was about 15-20 ft in a tree!!!! THAT was terrible. Anyway, back to what this post is SUPPOSED to be about.

She did pretty well on the lead rope exercise. I actually I can't really remember that part! Even though it was today! LOL. Anyways. It was almost dark when I finally finished and let her go.

Then I went in the barn to feed the horses and the bull. The bull went in the stall and I closed the door, and tied it with my rope that was in my back pack (NOT my lead rope, just an ordinary rope). I fed Chloe a scoop as usual and I gave the bull one scoop, and Valley I gave about half a scoop of her food. After Valley had finished eating her food, she went to Chloe's, and the bull had finished his, and started getting anxious for more food. So I gave him a little more, and valley a little more so she wouldn't eat all of Chloe's food. So I took Valley out of the barn to feed her. The bull didn't take very long to finish his food, and I wasn't there to give him food, so he got mad. REAL mad. He started banging against the old wooden gate to the stall, and some how got his head through. He tried to pull his head back, but it was stuck, so he started pushing up against the gait. He started pushing HARD. So hard that he broke to out of three hinges off the gate (I think). There WAS a board connected to the gate that was nailed into a post that is helping keep the barn roof up. When the bull had pushed the gate, the nails came out of the post. So the bull ran out and started eating Chloe's food. Poor Chloe, every time we feed her, Valley and the bull end up getting most of it! We are definetly going to have to figure out some other way to feed them. I wish we had the money to tear down that old cow barn, and build a much better horse barn! Hopefully we can do that next year. If dad's business starts selling a lot of stuff really soon. Which we are all really praying will happen.

Well, this is a long post, so I better sign off here. C ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya!



Love,

Sarah



P.S. I forgot my rope at the barn. It's still tied to the gate!

And when I came home, I took my lead rope, halter, and string to my moms bathroom to blow dry them off. They are still pretty wet. Especially the lead rope. After I layed them out to dry, I took a shower, and bathed Amy (our dog. Everybody that reads this knows that - I think- except for Stephanie. Well, she hasn't read it yet, because I just sent her an email with my blog addresses on it about 1 or 2 hourse ago) while I was taking a shower.

This has taken like, an hour to write this post!