Mosquitoes must DIE!
Dear Gott in Himmel! MY BACK! Was at the barn all day yesterday (my day off), LOVELY day, great ride, Luke's amazing...but the BUGS! i will NEVER wear a shirt that would in ANY WAY show any back, as in between bottom of shirt and waistband when leaning forward! Was watching Clair's lesson, chilling with her dad....and got ATTACKED. The grand tally is 20 bites on my arms...and 33 on my lower back. Thankfully none on the face. I think I have to find the OFF soon. Gah. Bugs are evil. We need more bats. And spiders. And mosquito killers or zappers or something. I forgot about this part about boarding at Tara's from last year, Luke was at Heritage for most of mosquito season and they don't have a resident swamp. Even though, it was a LOVELY day, and finally felt like I had enough energy to enjoy it. And i swear, Luke is the greatest fellow on earth. Bar none. Lunged him for 10 minutes to get the hypers out, not that there were many, just has been ages since I rode him, then tacked him up, worked in the round pen for another 10min, went to the big ring, got some GREAT trots on the bit and using his butt and everything, did a lot of trot poles, jogged over some logs, tarps, scary things and he didn't even bat an eye. What a doll. And then we walked all through the big back pasture up to the woods and back. He was a bit nervous, but then he just took a deep breath and meandered a long cooling out. Gosh I love that boy. Going to get to ride again today after work and Liz and I are going to go on a trail ride and maybe work on crossing that darned stream, our only bugaboo right now.