-Like hand grazing Isabel around the kid's play area (that mysteriously appeared one day - likely some parent wanted this stuff OUT of their house and the barn seemed as good a place as any to leave it?)
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| izzy wonders if maybe there's food in there somewhere? |
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| she looks peaceful, no? |
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| the arena light highlights all the crazy rain |
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| more rain |
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| yep.... still raining! |
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| just drizzling now - but see the flooded arena? |
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| or more specifically, see my lattice gate FLOATING AWAY next to the X???? |
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| appropriate accessories for checking fences while it was still lightning out intermittently: fubarrys and a beer. check and check. |
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| luckily all fences escaped unscathed. only one small tree down in the driveway |
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| looking back up the hill toward the barn |
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| figured i'd test out the hackamore for actual focused flat work too. verdict? brakes are WAY too good given my noisy hands. mare did not likey! |
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| cloud patterns were pretty.... |
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| but also felt somewhat ominous. |
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| these photos don't really capture the color right - it was REALLY strange out. |
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| whereas this photo captures the color perfectly. no it is not edited. yes it was really this pink out. creepy, right? |
Fubarrys, beer, and pink skies are all wonderful things! Sometimes just hanging out and enjoying the horses and barn people is the best :)
ReplyDeletei agree completely! it's so easy to get wrapped up in training and planning and making every moment matter, so it's kinda nice when that whole control aspect gets taken away and i realize - well, this is nice too! haha
DeleteWe have an orange sky today! Pink is much prettier :)
ReplyDeleteit was very pretty! very strange.... but pretty!
DeleteIn Congo it would often get pink like that at sunset. It was crazy and I didn't understand why, but somehow the humidity and light interacted to make just gorgeous pinkness every dusk. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteinteresting! and perhaps the proximity to the equator played a role? idk, all i know is it kinda freaks me out when the sky does strange/unusual things... tho it was objectively very lovely haha
DeleteIn Congo it would often get pink like that at sunset. It was crazy and I didn't understand why, but somehow the humidity and light interacted to make just gorgeous pinkness every dusk. So pretty!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a really cool barn day :)
ReplyDeleteit wasn't what we planned for, but it ended up being just fine anyway
DeleteDo you think the child's play area and the weather were related?! Maybe ghosts put out the equipment and then had a ritual cleansing of it!? So in theory, the equipment should be completely ghost free now.
ReplyDeleteBut in all seriousness, what a freakish day. Weird colored sky and those clouds look like something's falling from the sky. But I did appreciate the beautiful farm set up there. Looks nice!
lol idk. the child's play area is straight up weird and nobody knows where it came from. myyyyyysterious haha. plus a barn mate who recently moved from the midwest said the sky looked like tornado weather, even tho the storm had already passed. all in all quite freakish!
DeleteThe floating gate is pretty impressive. You might be an eventer if you see that and still think "yeah riding weather". ;-)
ReplyDeletelol well at least we cancelled the lesson? but honestly, one corner of the ring is eroding like a bitch and the whole thing drained quite quickly. so the footing was actually just fine and it would have been perfectly doable for a lesson.... oh well!
DeleteI had a good giggle about your lattice gate floating away
ReplyDeletelol me too. it's not exactly overly heavy, but it's made from two big 2x4s, so it's not exactly light weight either. i was really pretty surprised that it got swept away like that!
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