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[which_chick]

Horse outing again today. The smaller-size booties do not fit on the feet of the IRH, at least not in a reasonable amount of time. They don't fit even if I swear at them.



That'd be a no, Bob. The other, bigger booties were in my red Cavalier, left right where I parked it when I hopped out to go catch the IRH (Not Glad To See Me, I might add) and haul her sorry ass over the mountain to go ride. The booties I wanted were in the trunk, probably smirking their little hearts out.

In other news, Casper (Cass's pony) has girth sores due to rider error. Cass does not groom horse armpits carefully enough and this is twice as important when horses still have winter fuzzy fur. Winter fur, especially on ponies, is long enough to mat and gall pretty easily. I have had a word with Cass and barred her from riding with a saddle (except for the 4-H shows) until her horse is healed. This means she will be doing conditioning rides bareback, which she will not particularly view as a punishment... at least, not until she finds out how much downhill trotting we will be doing. :)

Horse exploded over two cars. I got off and held her for one. *sigh* Other than that, she did a great, workmanlike job again today. We went up to Hull's and then down to the across-the-ridge thing that goes to the deer feeding plot of the summer people and then back out and down to the water tank road and down to the houses. Then we went out to the road past Fuller's house and over the tunnel and then bypassed the real road by driving on the ex-road. It was just about two hours of riding.

I've told Cass that she has to keep a journal of our outings. She says she's doing it. (This is for the 4-H project book thing. They're big on keeping records of what you do with your horses every day and all.) Each day, I try to come up with some topics for discussion that are useful and informative on the subject of competitive trail. Today's topic was What kinds of things influence how long you can ride?

The four answers we discussed: weather, terrain, speed, condition-of-horse. I think she got it, mostly. Anyway, I'm tired.

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[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Deer feeding plot of the summer people? Assuming that this is plot as in plat and not as in conspiracy, it still raises the question of whether the deer-feeding is deliberate on the summer people's part, or more of a side effect...

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

The referenced deer feeding plot is a small, cleared-out area on the side of the mountain, fairly remote from human-occupied territory. There are empty (no corn kernels) corncobs in piles scattered around the plot. I expect that this is a deliberate feeding site -- corncobs are not known for spontaneously appearing on mountainsides and deer, unlike squirrels, do not make off with and stockpile their food. Also, the summer people do not, to the best of my knowledge, eat field (hard, "dent") corn as kernels on the cob. (Probably the closest they get to the stuff is polenta.)

I believe they have also attempted to get alfalfa to grow at the deer feeding plot. Unsuccessfully. (There is a reason we bought the land for less than thirty dollars an acre.)