tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post1598678927969365630..comments2024-03-22T03:49:11.644-07:00Comments on Life With Horses: How I Spent My Fourth of July VacationCindy Halehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06826221923988198322noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-36424119480457877342008-07-08T08:53:00.000-07:002008-07-08T08:53:00.000-07:00Oh, I LOVE sarcasm! Sometimes we have to laugh at ...Oh, I LOVE sarcasm! Sometimes we have to laugh at the silliness of it all... while we're sweating. Our summer is horrible, just like last year's summer. It's kind of scary!Cindy Halehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826221923988198322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817758588420976932.post-66270186454683023942008-07-07T05:38:00.000-07:002008-07-07T05:38:00.000-07:00Ugh....I'm really beggining to hate global warming...Ugh....I'm really beggining to hate global warming. Look what's it's doing to this great art of horses. I mean, isn't show season during the late spring, summer, and early fall? AND WHO WANTS TO BE CRUISING AROUND THE SHOW RING WITH A THICK SHOW JACKET ON IN HUNDRED SOMETHIN' DEGREE WEATHER. K, so maybe it's not (or maybe it is) global warming, but it's HOT out. Around my parts, we usually get cooler summers. Nope, 90-100 degrees out! Help me, I'm melting. No, seriously. I left a [plastic] bottle of fly spray (which we REALLY need w/ the humidity bringing on more flies) sitting out next to the horse pasture on the stone [human] pathway...and it conviently half-melted! Isn't that great!? Same thing happened to one of my fly masks with that darned plastic coated mesh. I think every horseperson in North America is feeling the burn. Literally. :). We've also begun building stalls in our barn, and being coated in sawdust isn't exactly the highest time of getting stalls in. We had to lug sand back and forth 2 this past weekend to fill the gutters in our barn, since it used to be a dairy farm. As much as I love horses....summer isn't always the greatest time to get into the saddle (and find your stuck to the seat). (BUT WE KEEP ON DOING THE HORSE THING!!! Yeah for us crazy horse-folks who give up A/C's for the comforts of a snuggly warm barn!)<BR/> -Your very sarcastic friend!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com