Good Morning Sunshine!

Interesting morning.

• The mare pasture is starting to dry up.
• Queen is my escape artist.
• I'm afraid she'll take Babe with her.
• Babe is blind and needs to stay in a safe pasture.

Those are plain facts. Those are the thoughts that run through my head every morning as I'm leaving for work.

We put in a better fence this summer but it still needs to be tweaked. This morning those thoughts ran through my head. I got to the end of the driveway and thought I saw something on the road. Of course I panic'd. You would too if you had a blind sorrel horse out on a road. I can easily spot Queen since she's a white appy but Babe is a bit harder to spot since she's a sorrel.

I thought I saw a dark blob on the road so I figured I'd better go check it out. Who knows what those mares are capable of doing if they want grass on the other side of the fence. So I turned around and headed south, slowly driving down the road trying to see if the mares were in the pasture. I figured it was just my eyes playing tricks but I wanted to be sure.

I rolled down the window and puttered along the gravel road hoping I'd see someone. The only horses I saw were the boys out in the big pasture. So I started looking on the road to see if I saw tracks. Nope. No tracks, no poo, no nothing. I guess it was my mind going crazy with worry that they were out. I decided I would do a quick U-turn in the neighbor's driveway.

BAD IDEA. I saw something cross the driveway and scurry into the grass. I thought maybe it was a cat so I took a closer look thinking it might be my cat, Duck (yes I named her Duck; watch the movie Constantine). EVEN WORSE IDEA!

Reverse! Reverse! For all that is holy REVERSE! It wasn't a cat; it was a skunk! Of course when I tried to U-turn I didn't give myself enough room. So I had to try and sneak away from the skunk and make a couple turns in the road. The car doesn't turn sharp enough. I tried to take it easy getting away from the skunk but wanted to get away from the skunk as fast as possible.

I puttered along the road making sure that the mares weren't out on the road or in the CRP and were still in their pasture. I didn't see hide or hair of the mares so I figured I'm safe. I think!

So that was my morning. How's your morning going?