OK. So mother nature got mad at me for complaining about the mud/frozen mud and sent the queen of all ice storms. Ice is bad too. Now there are miles of fence to fix, hundreds of trees to move. My pasture clearing project just got bumped to high priority. At least today its snow. Snow is fun. Snow is soft and cushy. They can walk through snow. Our new foster boy thinks its great fun. He also thought eating the ice of the trees was fun. He's kinda dingy, but a riot to watch as he figures out this living outside thing.
You know what else bugs me? Horses that get too wound up to eat. You know, when a horse is too busy worrying about the wind, or being put in a stall for 5 minutes, or the cars going by, or who KNOWS what esle, to concentrate on finishing their grain. And doesn't it always seem like its the habitually slow eaters or the ones who happen to get a lot of grain that are the most ADD? I don't know about other people, but its simply not possible for me to wait 45 minutes for one horse to finish eating, especially in the morning.
Yay for Suffolk Downs. They stood by their word and kicked out 5 people associated with horses ending up in the kill pens of New Holland literally hours after they left the track. Yay, yay, yay. Just when you start to lose faith in people who use horses as a business, someone steps up to the plate. Here's hoping that every track in the US follows suit.
