I was driving to Sonoma yesterday to be the trabajando du jour for HSM when I spotted a telephone pole just lying on the side of the road at a "it just fell there angle". And I just thought to myself that nothing good could have come from the circumstance of a telephone pole just laying there because it probably had to have fallen off something and since it was still there, either whoever was driving the something didn't notice the pole had come loose and dropped to the ground on a busy road, or didn't care. In any case eventually someone had to come along behind this situation and therein lies the problem. So there it was when I drove in in the morning and still there when I drove by on my way home. There's a story in there somewhere. Just like the car with the gigantic, pumpkin sized hole in the windshield. It had all the requisite spidering that comes with splintered auto glassn and was parked or stopped suddenly on the side of the road on the way to the Two Rock Event Center in Petaluma. One time I drove by and there were many cops examining the car, like WTF, and I had to put my phone down until I passed., but the car stayed there, as a matter of fact it was still there when I made my escape from Petaluma on Monday last.
I lived through the house sitting of two weeks unscathed. I was neither bitten nor kicked. Nothing died or ran away which is considered something of a victory to me. That's not technically true. A mouse met its end in a trap which completely grossed me out. I had a day or two of angst debating whether or not to ignore it and its deadness or man up and remove it from the trap and dispose of it. In the end, I picked it up trap and all with the manure fork and threw it in the dumpster avec trap. Another day whilst dutifully examining drinking water levels in the containers, I noticed the shadowy outline of something dead on the bottom of one. That grossed me out too. I had to dump the water barrel and fork the dead thing up and toss it in the field. I couldn't make it to the dumpster because I was gagging. Oh, it was a rat. I amaze myself. And you should be amazed as well.
Dateline A Week Later:
I have survived a weekend of grooming at an event. It has been a very long time since anyone trusted me with their horses while they are there to see me do my uh magic. I even braided! And remembered why, back in the day, I considered it a very good investment to have someone braid for you. Nonetheless, the mane stayed tied up in knots in spite of the slippery thread used to bind the hairs together. Good equipment is vital to a professional outcome. The horses did look pretty good as they went off to do their various jobs of the moment. There was that rather unnecessary episode of one of the horses taking exception to yours truly and punishing me by tearing the lunge line out of my delicate paws and ripping around with the line flying behind her... twice. My beloveds comment was less than sympathetic. He marveled that I wasn't fined or scolded by the judiciary committee of the horse show and subsequently had some sort of sanction foisted on me. I believe we call this wishful thinking.
My little friend Horse Show Mom was my companion at the show. We got to share a room in the hotel together along with three children, one of whom is the offspring of HSM. I will tell you right now that I do not find it adorable that she whined piteously about the delicate and infrequent snores I make in my sleep, while she babbles on incessantly in her sleep. How cute was it that both Mom and daughter won their respective divisions? The daughter had a mention of her win in the Jr. Training division in a popular Eventing website marveling at her age and all that. The mother was not mentioned which is somewhat ironic, but you might of had to have been there. FYI Novice Horse is not Advanced. Inside joke, but some of you might get it.
Not that you'll be surprised, but I did make a rather spectacular gaffe in the middle of a lot of people I didn't know. So I saw this enormous horse trailer with human living quarters as well as horse quarters and lots of awnings and solar panels and pop out rooms and what not parked near where I knew one of my friends was parked. Thinking she must have just purchased this rolling brothel looking contraptions, I came around the corner and queried, querulously, who owned the rolling house of ill repute. Well, it became almost instantly apparent that it did not belong to my friend at all. No, it belonged to someone I did not know, nay, never had laid eyes on in my life. And she immediately demanded to know if I had just called her a prostitute. I recovered rather more quickly that you'd imagine and replied that if she owned the rolling brothel then that would make her a madam. She was mollified by that assessment, agreed the trailer could be used for that profession on the side and offered me a drink, which I took, out of politeness only of course, and we got along just fine from there. Always remember to make lemonade out of your lemons. And leave after your one polite drink...I enjoyed a day at the zoo with the grandchillens yesterday. We also had a picnic and played on the slide and spiderweb, (don't ask - I never saw the point of it, but the little tykes evidently knew what to do so all needs were served.) We pulled a wagon with our stuff in it, but not with the children in it as was my intention, but they walk now so there you go. Little Silas wore bright orange Crocs which I know used to belonged to his brother. That was a long time ago. They were not cute then, nor are they cute now, but it would seem they have the shelf life of a Twinkie and they do not look any different today than they did years ago. While a good investment dollar wise, really, they are super awful to look at and the stupid little charms you can spend valuable money on just make them look like really ugly decorated pixie shoes. Well that was emotional wasn't it? Back to our adventure at the zoo. My favorite creature of the day had to be the baby orangutan who was scampering about with a sheet over its body. It looked like a little ghost and here it was not even close to Halloween. Seemingly it was important that it be covered as we returned for another viewing after a bit and it had a large piece of heavy paper over its head. I have a picture, but the IPhone won't share.
I have quite a few house sitting gigs set up which means that I won't have any horse show news for y'all. What it does mean is I will be earning valuable money which makes the spouse happy and cranky at the same time. He's very complicated and complex. And not very tidy. He has a new cat at work, well not new or probably even young, but new to him. He likes having his own pet and the cat amuses him. It (the cat) prefers to sleep on the desk between my beloved and his computer keyboard and tolerates the typing on the keyboard bit of computing but takes some exception to the use of the mouse. I think the reason for that is obvious, but the spouse doesn't get it. Do you? My beloved is somewhat useless in the administration of medication for the creature and it has worms. I bought a de-wormer for it because worms are disgusting and provided the spouse with the cat piller device, but because he's a man he can't seem to work out how to use it. We had the same problem with the Starbucks Via coffee this morning. It's instant dear. Pour hot water over it. Voila! Running out of coffee for the machine is a really bad thing. And having to demonstrate the making of instant coffee is embarrassing. Pilling the cat really only has two options of places to insert the cat piller. The mouth is the right one. FML The cat is Siamese and talks a lot. Naturally the only civilized name for a Siamese cat is Meow C Dung but sadly it has another name, it is pathetic and I won't bother you with it. Suffice it to say some of the guys at the Fairgrounds named it and it is not descriptive or good.
I take myself off to the land of the privileged tomorrow to put a beady eye on a new horse who arrived from the Land of the Shamrocks the other day. Seemingly the proud new owners have pressing obligations elsewhere and need someone to
Remember to "spring forward" on Sunday. I can't figure if you get more or less sleep, my mind doesn't work. (that way) But I assure you it will still be light when you finish your chores at night and that is a good thing.
Cheers,
Squidgy
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