Micro mini roses are blooming in the sunny window.(The only non-weird thing to happen this week. )
"You can learn a lot from becoming discombobulated." - Next Door Neighbor
Tell me about it! Every plan I had this week was foiled in one way or another ~ through false promises, high winds, double bookings...We made a valiant attempt to do Friday Afternoon (hiking) Club on Wednesday. But we sought out a new trail on the advice of someone who is clearly in good athletic condition.
Listen to me, now, because this is very important.If you need a new hiking trail ask a fat person. They'll be looking out for you every step of the way.
Never ask an athlete. [I don't know what we were thinking!] Athletes will send you to the steepest trail imaginable just to meddle with your self-esteem. Once we saw this new, steep trail, we bagged the whole idea and went for a long lunch.
That lunch was running neck and neck as highlight to my weird week. That is, until I discovered what the horses do on Thursday afternoons.
My riding lesson, like everything else, was rescheduled again and again and again. Until finally I just decided to drive down there to see if Tina would show me some love.
The place was pretty much abandoned. As we warmed up in the arena, J turned on some music. That theme from the Rocky movie. Full blast. Instantly the horses broke into a canter, joyfully galloping to the beat of that song. Then, we trotted to Abba [Dancing Queen!] Next up, Sister Sledge.
I didn't know horses love music! Admittedly they have terrible taste in music but still ~ how cool is that!?I had no idea what I was doing but horse, Tina, didn't exactly need my guidance. She's big into the boogie. Who knew disco dancing would finally be our breakthrough?
* Yeah, yeah. I'm sure we looked utterly ridiculous but who cares? If you'd like to see how this is done by a pro, watch this amazing video. At the end, when he hugs her? I usually cry. [Tears of joy.]
6 comments:
Dancing horses and dancing dogs all in the same week. That was fantastic!!! How do they train them to do that anyway? With a name like Tina she just had to love Rock as in Tina Turner.
The cool thing about that video and the horse is that he just plucked her out of a pasture because he thought she seemed special.
Now that I've done this, I realize that - at least in the beginning - it's all their doing. Some of 'em just love to dance...
cool cool. yes-terrible taste in music! but funny. i can just hear the songs just as you describe them. (yeah-thanks for getting "you are family!" stuck in my head. ugh.
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Jane
Hey! If you ever go "horse dancing " again You really have to find a rendition of "Gary Owen" -you know, the 7th Cavalry's theme music; it must have been written for horses. -Your long lost brother
Where the hell have you been?? :D
Ya never write, ya never call. I miss you. - Little sis
Great blog post....I like it good work keep it up! Thank you
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