Posted by PH Cody on October 25, 2002 at 07:43:09:
Had a bit of an adventure yesterday so I thought I'd share as I got a really good laugh from it! After I had fed yesterday morning, I went out to check the fences on one of my pastures to make sure there wasn't anything on it grounding it, or as happened to have been the case this time, deer jumping over it has pushed down the top wire which had to be fixed. I was moseying along when I noticed that the four mares in my last pasture were all spooked about something in the back of their pasture. I couldn't see anything from where I was, but all 4 mares were huddled up in the upper corner, looking back towards the back of the pasture, heads up, snorting, the works. So I topped the rise of a small hill in the pasture I was in to see better, and could see something white in the back of their pasture. At first I thought it was just trash but them it seemed to move slowly along as if either browsing or sniffing around. Well, I have two small goats so I don't take chances with other peoples dogs, and well, curiousity is one powerful force of its own! It so happens that I had picked up a plank of wood that had mysteriously crawled into the middle of my pasture (ever wondered how those things show up out in the middle of nothing???) and I had my vicious gaurd dog, Shelby. (I know, just the very name strikes fear into ones heart...) We head out that way, and as I came into the back of the pasture, the mares saw me and came tearing down the side of the pasture, following along behind me, bucking, snorting - oh yes, they were SO brave now that Mom was there to protect them from the mean, fire-breathing, horse-eating dragon... The "dragon" turned out to be, indeed, a large plastic insulation wrapper that the wind was playing with just enough to make it appear to be moving about along the trail it was on. I scooped it up and the mares got ALL excited, tearing around in big circles around me, snorting, kicking up at each other, having a big victory celebration now that the big dragon was dead. I laughed all the way back up to the barn. I just coudn't get over how those 4, all ranging from about 900 pounds to 1200+ pounds of hooves and teeth were all hiding behind all 150 pounds of me and my plank of wood and vicious dog... Only horses!
