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What to say to a horse person who's gained weight

Just heard this out in the pasture. True story.

A male trainer everybody knew showed up at the first show of the season and was much fatter than the year before.

Nobody said anything at first. Then one trainer remarked,"He overwintered well."

Scary stuff

Bazzy Boy visited yesterday and I got introduced to his blog. Bazzy, like Lucy, flunked out at the track. Bazzy, unlike Lucy, has his own blog. Don't tell her. She's already got an inflated sense of entitlement.

Here's something that makes me laugh out loud -- Bazzy's list of things that scare him, Scary stuff.

Lucy agrees with him particularly about Bags of Death, House on a Stick, and Big Blue Flat Bag of Death. So glad we don't have to worry about kangaroos. Surprise Deer are bad enough. 

Buddy isn't afraid of lightning, but doesn't like rain, so he's sure to go stand under the tallest tree. (The barn is open at all times for their shelter, but who wants a barn when you can stand under a tall tree and cause your owner to lose years of her life just watching and debating whether she should go out in the lightning storm, walk under the tall tree to get you, and then put you in the barn?) Lucy just keeps grazing. If it gets really bad she'll turn her rear end to the wind. If it gets really, really bad, she'll go in the barn. Then run out again because of the sound of rain on the metal roof. But I digress.

Very funny. Go visit Scary stuff -- and then come back! What's on your horse's list of scary stuff?

Two kinds of ponies

There are two kinds of ponies. Ones that have foundered, and ones that will founder.
                                                                                        -- Author Unknown

Horses and squirrels

"Every time you see a horse, it's pooping. But you see squirrels all the time and you never see them poop. What's up with that?"
                                - a comedian whose name I forgot on the Comedy Channel