Bill and Juanita, owners of Allenspark Lodge B&B, are living their dream...

running a successful business and riding as often as possible.



Tuesday, June 19, 2012

You Just Can't Tell

Brains of a turnip.  Except I hate to insult turnips like that.

I went out this evening to "bug the horses" as I do most evenings.  Just get a little hands on time, check for new cuts, kick marks, ticks and so on.

I found no ticks on any of the horses, except Ranger.  He had a big, bloated one right on his... umm...  on the... umm... under his tail.  Ranger has always been rather "cautious" about letting anything under his tail, so when I pulled out my Leatherman and opened it up I told him "I really hope this hurts you more than it hurts me."  I have seen the old guy "jackhammer cow kick" through 3/4 inch plywood in his younger days, and have received a memorable pop or two myself.

I slowly and carefully lifted his tail, latched onto the tick near his head (making DARN sure I didn't grab any uh... skin on Ranger) and I pulled the tick off.

NOT A TWITCH from the old guy.  He just looked over his shoulder at me, and when I dropped his tail, he pinned it tight to let me know HE WAS DONE NOW, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, but that was all.

"Whew." I thought. and I closed the multi-tool.

"Click"


OH MY GOD!   MONSTERS!  EVIL HORSE EATING BOOGERS!  THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT!



And Ranger was off on a bucking, snorting kicking bug-eyed rampage across the corral.  I stared at him a little bug-eyed myself.

"Ranger, you moron!  You let me RIP a parasite the size of a Volkswagen off your anus and don't move a muscle, But I close a pair of pliers as I'm walking away and you FLIP OUT!  WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?"

And off I went, following the knot-head  around with a pair of pliers, making him touch them, after which he would snort and run away some more, so I would follow him with a pair of pliers, making him touch them....

Lather, rinse, repeat.

"Click" 


 Dope.

Bill 

3 comments:

  1. ROFLMAO

    Oh, and thank you SO much for the illustration! You did indeed look bug eyed.

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  2. And if it makes you feel any better at all, one winter my friend's gelding spooked HARD (while she was riding) at a teeny bit of snow rolling down the side of a waist high snowdrift.

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