Of horses and hailstorms
It's happened again!
After being horseless for a mere 4 years, I'm a proud owner..again. :) He is a just about 4 month old chestnut half Arabian/National Show Horse colt named Captain.
A friend of mine bought me a horse for my birthday(November 5th). I know what you might be thinking, "Carrie, horses cost money!". Oh...I know this. Or maybe you could be asking yourself just what "kind" of "friend" would buy me a horse?....and not think that there might be something going on! LOL Well, I'm very fortunate to know someone who is very, very well off and they retained a business interest in my horse. All that really means is while I own the horse, my friend pays for most all the expenses, and gets to come out to the barn where he is boarded and see him from time to time. It also means that the show fees are paid when that time comes(WHOOPEEE!!)
As far as owning horses for me goes, when I did own before, I had what I would consider very little "nice" clothes or gadgets compared to my sister(who didn't have horses) is evident of that. It still is, in fact. My good outfit equals a Serenity t-shirt and jeans with some fake rhinestone accents and knock off Converse All Stars tell the tell the tale pretty well. I knew that if I had horses, something would have to give, and I was fine with that, but when I became horseless after going to college, the money didn't go to a better waredrobe, it went to school, of which I was perfectly content. :)
Speaking of Serenity and horses, one of the things I have to do for my horse is get him registered in the next 2 months or the price to get him registered goes up considerably. The name the people wanted to register him under(and what I saw him advertised on their website) was KCF Perfect Shot. The KFC stands for Krystal and Chris Fiandt, the breeders. I dunno about that name really, its...OK, and it works in the his sire's name is Perfect Storm and his dam's name is Shot of Gold, so thats cool, but I have the opportunity to name him whatever I want! I thought about keeping the KCF and naming him either KCF Malcolm Reynolds or KCF Captain Reynolds or possibly KCF Serenitys Captain(no punctuation allowed)....but I'm not sure...I'll have to think on that, and maybe take some polls to help me make up my mind.
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So...the hailstorms...
As I was leaving the barn today, I decided to call the barn owner just in case she wanted me to do anything before I left(she'd called earlier on asking if I could feed because she had to work late), and as luck would have it, she asked me to bring the horses in because it was supposed to hail. After that was done and Ron(my bf) and I left the barn, it started to rain. Just as we'd gotten back on the highway it let loose and hailed. At one point we were going no faster than 10 mph and it finally lets up before we got off the highway. While we are exiting the highway, we notice that the offramp is backed up and there are flashing lights and 2 accidents up ahead. Once we finally get off the ramp, we notice another accident. WTF? It must be the change in scenery for me(I'm from rural central IL) but 3 accidents within half a mile is something notable. Ron was just annoyed(he'd grown up in and around the city and suburbs)
Then when we were about to turn into home we noticed yet another accident. And we'd only driven 3 miles from the exit. Yikes!
I've never been in a serious accident, but one of the ones off the exit was horrible. We actually had to drive through a narrow opening between the cars involved and got a very, very good closeup of the cars. Accidents happen everyday around here, but I guess you'll have that when living in or near a city. I'm just not quite "used" to it yet. But I'm not sure I ever will.
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More pics of baby horse soon! :) YAY!!!
After being horseless for a mere 4 years, I'm a proud owner..again. :) He is a just about 4 month old chestnut half Arabian/National Show Horse colt named Captain.
A friend of mine bought me a horse for my birthday(November 5th). I know what you might be thinking, "Carrie, horses cost money!". Oh...I know this. Or maybe you could be asking yourself just what "kind" of "friend" would buy me a horse?....and not think that there might be something going on! LOL Well, I'm very fortunate to know someone who is very, very well off and they retained a business interest in my horse. All that really means is while I own the horse, my friend pays for most all the expenses, and gets to come out to the barn where he is boarded and see him from time to time. It also means that the show fees are paid when that time comes(WHOOPEEE!!)
As far as owning horses for me goes, when I did own before, I had what I would consider very little "nice" clothes or gadgets compared to my sister(who didn't have horses) is evident of that. It still is, in fact. My good outfit equals a Serenity t-shirt and jeans with some fake rhinestone accents and knock off Converse All Stars tell the tell the tale pretty well. I knew that if I had horses, something would have to give, and I was fine with that, but when I became horseless after going to college, the money didn't go to a better waredrobe, it went to school, of which I was perfectly content. :)
Speaking of Serenity and horses, one of the things I have to do for my horse is get him registered in the next 2 months or the price to get him registered goes up considerably. The name the people wanted to register him under(and what I saw him advertised on their website) was KCF Perfect Shot. The KFC stands for Krystal and Chris Fiandt, the breeders. I dunno about that name really, its...OK, and it works in the his sire's name is Perfect Storm and his dam's name is Shot of Gold, so thats cool, but I have the opportunity to name him whatever I want! I thought about keeping the KCF and naming him either KCF Malcolm Reynolds or KCF Captain Reynolds or possibly KCF Serenitys Captain(no punctuation allowed)....but I'm not sure...I'll have to think on that, and maybe take some polls to help me make up my mind.
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So...the hailstorms...
As I was leaving the barn today, I decided to call the barn owner just in case she wanted me to do anything before I left(she'd called earlier on asking if I could feed because she had to work late), and as luck would have it, she asked me to bring the horses in because it was supposed to hail. After that was done and Ron(my bf) and I left the barn, it started to rain. Just as we'd gotten back on the highway it let loose and hailed. At one point we were going no faster than 10 mph and it finally lets up before we got off the highway. While we are exiting the highway, we notice that the offramp is backed up and there are flashing lights and 2 accidents up ahead. Once we finally get off the ramp, we notice another accident. WTF? It must be the change in scenery for me(I'm from rural central IL) but 3 accidents within half a mile is something notable. Ron was just annoyed(he'd grown up in and around the city and suburbs)
Then when we were about to turn into home we noticed yet another accident. And we'd only driven 3 miles from the exit. Yikes!
I've never been in a serious accident, but one of the ones off the exit was horrible. We actually had to drive through a narrow opening between the cars involved and got a very, very good closeup of the cars. Accidents happen everyday around here, but I guess you'll have that when living in or near a city. I'm just not quite "used" to it yet. But I'm not sure I ever will.
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More pics of baby horse soon! :) YAY!!!