I know that’s not many of you here, but tonight in “why did I choose this profession,” my current view:
Trying to decide if that dark spot on the camera is the horse I’m trying to teach to self soothe, relaxing eating grass, or if she’s pacing the fence out of site. Can I get in the shower or will she try to jump out of the paddock? Who knows?
Update, I think that’s a horse grazing 
I am cold just looking at your legs. Get yourself some lined jeans.
PS. I hope you enjoyed your shower.
That looks like a nasty bruise. Did she kick you?
Lol definitely not. This one would break my leg if she kicked me.
Ran into an unnecessarily long hitch on a truck 
🤦🏻
It’s not too bad here in California 
This morning snow was in the forecast. But the snow we get here is more like sleet and rain. I’m sure they’ll be FINE, but no one really grew a winter coat this year and though they do have their waterproof blankets on…but it’s cold and it had been up to the 70s.
Playing roulette. Do I turn the horses out? Do I leave them in?
Decided to turn them all out. No snow. Plenty of galloping around. I felt pretty proud of myself.
Went in the house and poured a cup of coffee. It’s now sleeting. Debating now on whether I need to bring the hothouse flowers back in. Really tempted to just let them lump it.
I feel your pain. Every single day.
Oh man. The blanketing struggle is real. At least they have sheets on!
We have the weirdest springs here. It can be sunny and 70 and then 5 minutes later 55 and hailing I always worry about them getting hot so I try to take sheets off but then I’m out in the hail trying to convince them to at least come into the barn!
Yes, and what is it with horses and really bad weather? When it is DRIVING rain and thunder and lightning here in a pop up storm, I’m fighting to try to bring them in. What are they doing? Standing there like “guess I’m just going to drown”. No one will come to me. They all stand as FAR away from the barn as possible.
On a lovely day when everything is nice and sunny and the birds are chirping? If I so much as show my head in the barn they all want in.
I give up.
I am confused… what does the photo of sitting on the toilet have to do with anything?
exactly!
Oh it was just that I was sitting on the toilet trying to decide what the horse was doing so I could make a decision about whether I was going to stay dressed and go out to bring her a buddy or if it was safe to get in the shower.
Aaaaaaahhhh!!! Oooooooowwwww!!! My hitch sticks out too far as well because of the weight distribution hitch. I understand perfectly.
I thought maybe the stress of running a barn makes you constipated or the opposite? I can’t even see a bruise??
Years and years learning from the best people you can work under, train from… and still anxiety because all that learnin’ teaches us that no matter how well prepared we are, things can go sideways.
Truly, one never, ever knows enough.
Ummm…did we need the toilet selfie?
It’s like night check. Why? They can hang themselves at 2am or 7 pm. One last look won’t change that. Do it because you enjoy it, sure. Do it, or obsess over cameras whilst on the john and share that with COTH…yeah no.
What. In. The. World. Is. This. Post. OP??
Not sure why you sitting on a toilet relates to managing a barn, but, OK, this board has gotten a little strange lately…
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