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On the Fifth Day of Christmas: 5 Dressage Rings

On the Third Day of Christmas: 3 Feed Sacks

This is what we feed our 17h, 1300lb horse. A minuscule amount. For comparison, Mathilda is six inches shorter, 300 pounds lighter, and gets twelve times the amount of food (1 cup vs 3 quarts). They both eat three times a day. Rodney is fat. Not just ‘in good flesh’. He sports pokeable pads ofContinue reading “On the Third Day of Christmas: 3 Feed Sacks”

Hissy Fits

It’s dark. It’s late. I’m lying in bed. Awake. My mind begins to ponder life’s inscrutable mysteries. What if something terrible happens and I’m a widow and I have to lie in this bed alone for the rest of my life? What if they never get the Fujiyama reactor under control and nuclear armageddon oozesContinue reading “Hissy Fits”