What a night!
Okay-dokie! Last couple nights I haven't been sleeping too well, the call of my darlin' Zack Fair and his Crisis Core video game have been too much for me to resist. Tonight I swore I'd go to bed earlier! Swore it!, Fate had other plans. As I was shutting off lights downstairs, I noticed lights of the flashy kind . . . in our driveway . . . okaaaaay, sheriff is pulling up our driveway. I come right out in a satin floor length night gown and ask what he needs . . . "Do you own a horse?" he asked . . . I wish. Apparently a horse is running loose on the road and he can't find where it came from, but since it's staying near our yard and the pasture of the horse farm (which is locked tight, by the way) he though it might be ours. I tell him about the lack of fence maintanence at the stable and we both figure it must be Gary's (the owner of the stable). I offer some of our squirrel corn and my help in catching the beast and he agrees, so I go inside and grab a bucket to dump the corn in, the corn and one of the dog's twenty foot leads. Up the driveway we go, and he uses the flashlight to show me where the horse is, then turns it off, this is when I am glad I have good night vision. Then he tells me the horse won't come near him and sends me off on my own . . . By now, I'm kinda scared, not of the horse, but off catching it, because mind you, Gary's horses are nutts, they don't know treats if they jumped in their mouths and yelled "Yummy!" But like AAAALLLLLL the Animal Cops shows I've seen, the horse heard the corn in the bucket rattling around and came right over. I gently lay the leash over the horses neck, patting and murmuring and shaking the bucket when the horse started (just a little) Easy as you please, I got the lead looped around it's neck (no halter). And the sweet thing lead as easy as you please up the road and up my driveway, where the sheriff thanks me for my help and leaves . . . . okay, how am I gonna get the horse in the pasture while holding it when all the gates are within one locked gate? Fortunately the fencerow between us and the stable is not wood, it's alunimum and nylon strapping, run through brackets on the fence posts, one low, one high, and one in the middle, it works, usually. I tried to untie it where the fence had broken before and couldn't, so, I pull the two high lines up over my head and stand on the lower one and coax the horse through. I got the leash of her neck and fixed up the fence so there wasn't a gap and came back to the house. By this time my mom and sister were up 'cause Becky was getting ready for work (she stayed the night last night), so I went over and told my tale (and got nagged for my horrid sleeping habits) Mom went out to have a cigarette and I headed back for my apartment when Mom heard a noise back in the woods. So I got my super bright flashlight and shined it out there. Seven deer, all hanging out in our yard. Mom was happy, so happy, she had to get Daddy so he could see too. ^_^ I'm so glad I'm useful, but now, it's five thirty in the morning and I'm quite awake . . . . again. At least I'm off today. ^_^