Good Ole' Quzqo

Sat Aug 12, 2006

Took Himself for a nice quiet, walking trail ride tonight (walking only, because after a bout of food poisoning yesterday, the last thing my tummy needed was a lot of jouncing around!). We came home via the road leading to the barn (paved two-lane). He was perfectly calm and mellow with the cars going by (just a few, it was almost 8 pm after all). Suddenly a pick-up hauling a trailer with FOUR jet-skis went BLASTING past us w/o moving into the other lane at all (i.e. mere FEET from my foot!) I about jumped out of the saddle, but Coos just kept walking on (probably because he could see the barn from there, lol!) Good boy!!

LOL...Bob's busy moving the fences around, and had a temporary gate on one of the front pastures full of his sales horses. Well, the Belgians pushed the gate down, and the pair and about 4 other horses and ponies ESCAPED and were up in the ROAD!! This happened just as Coos and I were leaving, so we sort-of helped round them back up...Bob was sitting at the picnic table by his house w/their company/guests of the evening, and I got to ride up hollering that his horses were loose, LOL! Hey, a Belgian in the middle of the road is not a good thing!!

They got them all shooed back into the pasture and fixed the gate! LOL...good time of day for all that silliness to happen!!

I guess Coos got loose this week when they were turning him out in the morning...there were other horses blocking his way, so he bolted and ran AWAY from the other horses...as far as the nearest GRASS, so he was easy to catch, LOL! That's my boy!

"Runaway" horses rarely go far around there...usually as far as the nearest grass.