Despite some rain again last night, our weather has finally reverted to some semblance of "normal" for Louisiana - 50-ish at night, near 80 during the day. Now THAT is the reason we have continued to live down here.
The horses have settled into some semblance of a routine, too. Another girl I board with is a large animal anesthesiologist at LSU Vet School. They had a horse come in there with a condition that makes her skin extremely vulnerable to injury at the slightest touch, so she can't be ridden. They were going to put her down, but she's such a sweet mare that Torri volunteered to take her. So she is boarded over at Al's with our horses. Sugarfoot is such a submissive mare though, that the other horses harrass her constantly, and she would end up with continual bite injuries on that delicate skin.
Sugarfoot and Lizzie
Mark and I built a temporary shelter in one of Al's side paddocks when we bought Lizzie since there weren't enough stalls for her to have a place inside the barn during storms. So I told Torri to go ahead and put Sugarfoot out there with Lizzie, since Lizzie is also very submissive, and see if that worked out better. Well -- we seem to have created an entirely new creature with 8 legs and two heads! The two of them are inseparable. They hang out together, shoulder to shoulder, constantly! It's really wonderful to see, because both of them were picked on all the time out there in the big pasture. We've begun calling them "the ladies who munch" since they have become absolutely inseparable and now graze in unison! If we bring either of them inside for grooming or whatever, the other one stands out there at the gate and hollers the whole time! (It'll be "interesting" to see what happens when I take Lizzie out on a trail ride without Sugarfoot.)
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