I fed this AM and then rode Missy. Miss was good but mostly we just trotted up and down the hills in the pasture. There wasn’t anyone out so I didn’t want to be down in the ring by myself. Miss is pretty safe but u never know with horses and since I was alone at the barn riding, I rode in the pasture that is next to the road (someone would hopefully find my body if I had a bad fall.)

I was gonna hop on Cook but she was DIRTY! MAN was she crazy muddy.

Here is a pic of her, pre-bath.  Can u SEE all the dirt?!?!?

So I gave her a way, super deluxe bath instead. While I was bathing her (have I mentioned how she has more hair products than I do?), I found a knot that she was not wanting me to mess with. I kept picking at it (it was on her ninnies) until something came off and guess what it was??? A TICK. NASTY!!! I was like yikes, ugh, ugh! gross! I killed it with a bottle cap. There was still a knot there like I didn’t get the head so I called Mere. Mere cleaned it out and I came back out to look at it with her.  Mere is extremely knowledgable about vet things and I am glad that she was there to look at it.  It was pretty gross.  Cook wasn’t happy about this at all.  In fact, that’s an understatement.  She was pretty upset.

Here is a pic of her during the bath.

Here is another pic of her after her bath.

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Last night, we went out for Theresa’s birthday.  Gita came over from Charlotte.  Had a blast.

I didn’t really like any of the pics of me.  But Theresa and Gita are very photogenic - here is a pic of them and a pic of the three of us that doesn’t make me shutter.