My camera roll is full of this sort of picture.
Several years ago on my FB page during a serious colic …
Non-Horsey Friends: “Sorry your horse has been sick! Hope he is better!”
Me:
Non-Horsey Friends: “Why do we have to look at horse poop?”
Horse recovered. Another mylife-shortening horse event. Metaphorically speaking.
Back in September I lacerated my hand when I broke my horse trailer door handle.
So I wrapped it up in vet wrap and went about my business like any horse person would.
Later I went to urgent care when I kept bleeding through the bandage and they asked me who wrapped it up so nicely with coband
The other day, I rocked up to the vet with my cat in her carrier (which is a large laundry basket with a maguyvered lid–she’s a very large cat with mobility issues and an extreme sense of dignity.
She cannot be shoved into a standard cat carrier.) It is of course made cushy for her majesty with a repurposed saddle pad.
The vet was happy to meet a fellow horse person
Yeah, saddle pads underneath cats = major tell. In several households I know.
… when your idea of a working mud room is a scored concrete floor with a drain in the middle and a hose on the wall.
A shower, a toilet a utility sink and a shelf with full change of clothes … of course W/D maybe a commercial front loader
Tack cleaning stands and a ceiling tack hanger for harness items.
Dog washing station.
Feed bin for feed that needs a hot water bucket soak before barn time.
Small Animal Vet I used was kind of distant, even accusatory on occasion
Until I read in the bio his clinic put out that he’d shown Hunters.
When I mentioned that & told him I had too, he warmed right up.
Horsepeeps, we have a mental Secret Handshake
Just showing horsey-ness. My not horsey physical therapist was trying to explain to me the core and slight pelvic movement she wanted from me and when I did it correctly she said “that’s it!” I said, “oh, half halt.”
Now when she wants that movement from patients who ride, she asks them to half halt. She says “the term has been very useful, thank you.”
I had that experience with a dentist who was noticeably more friendly after he found out that I showed hunters in the past. His daughter currently shows hunters.
This is my dream!
I want your mud room!!!
This is the winter version of my car trunk. Coats and jackets for every possible temperature, the winter boots and ever present Dover bucket.
Conversation with my physical therapist regarding pelvic movement:
“I know what you want me to do, I just can’t do it.”
“How do you know what I want you to do?”
“Because you’re asking me to use my weight aid to activate the hind legs, except with just one seatbone.”
Finally, I sat on one of her big medicine balls like it was a fat pony, and demonstrated that I did, in fact, know exactly what she was asking me to do, but I was not (yet) physically capable of using just one seatbone to do it from the starting position she was asking.
As far as I know, she doesn’t tell her other patients to ask for an extended trot.
Wish I had a photo of the awkward white stains on my sweatshirt at work the other day to contribute! I didn’t realize how much of the SMZs ended up on me until I was at work with nothing to be done about it.
SMZs or desitin. Neither will come off without a wash!