Wibbly Wobbly Spook

Harry has many spooks in his repertoire. One of the silliest is what’s called the Wibbly Wobbly Spook. 

This one only happens in special circumstances. There has to be something spook-worthy on both sides of the trail. So say you’re ambling along and you come across a rubbish bin. Ok yes spook-worthy I’ll give you that. But say mid-spook he also spots something spook-worthy on the other side of the track…say a rabbit. Then you’ll get the Wibbly Wobbly Spook. Also known as Existential-Crisis Spook or the just plain Friggin Hilarious Spook. When a horse can’t decide which item is the scariest they kinda wobbly spook along the track for a few steps. Makes you wonder eh?

Things that Harry eats that he knows he shouldn’t....

How do I know…cos he gets that guilty yet also slightly sniggering look.

Especially when he spots me a certain distance away.

Well Grrrr to you horse with your sense of humour. 

1. Reins

This his possibly his favourite thing to chew, possibly because it is my least favourite. 

Yup this has got to be the most annoying. It means the bridle can only go on at the very last minute or otherwise my lovely reins get chewed. I mean come on horse, it's not like reins grow on trees!!!

2. Brushes

All types and varieties. Nothing in the grooming kit is sacred. 

He especially loves to grab one, shake it up and down and then fling it!

3. Leadropes

Yup, whenever he's tied up and I go to get something I only have to glance over and he's reaching for the rope. 

If I catch him, a good holler will make him drop it with a guilty look.
If I don't catch him in the act I'll return to a sniggering horse happily chewing away. GrrrrrrAhhhhhhh Horse!

 4. Zipper pulls

If you're wearing it and it has a zip on it.....then he want it!

Zipper ties/pulls or those little bits of fabric attached to zips, this is especially delicious. WTF???

5. Wheelbarrows

Not so much eaten or chewed as played with really. 

If Harry's in the vicinity of an upright wheelbarrow and you're not in the vicinity of said wheelbarrow....then its some kind of strange law of the universe that the wheelbarrow will get tipped. The speed that this tipping happens is in direct relation to how full the wheelbarrow is. 

This. Is. Not. Fair!!!!

GrrrrAhhhh bloody horse.

Feeding Time

Length of time to make horses dinner.

Soak beet pulp - 12 hours

Wash out buckets in icy water  -  1min

Warm hands up again as they have frozen to feed bucket - 5min

Curse at feed bag string because it’s not doing that lovely satisfying pull through the top of the bag but instead is getting tighter -  5min

Find scissors  - 10min

Trip over buckets on the way back with scissors and hurt your knee -  2min

Open feed bag with scissors but try to make it look like you opened it by pulling the string  - 2min

Mix feed with soaked beet pulp and supplements -  1min

Wrestle veg oil bottle off the dog who is licking the lid and doesn’t want to give it back -  1min

Mix veg oil in with feed -  1min

Bring feed out to yard and feed horses  - 10min

Go find torch so you can see hay in hay shed, load up wheelbarrow with hay and bring back to horse who’s now kicking empty feed bucket around -  5min

Hay and change water in stables – 10min

Length of time to make my dinner

Boil kettle, pour into pot noodle, too exhausted to wait and just eat half softened pot noodle – 2min

I’m doing something wrong here?

Always end on a good note!

That’s the trick isn’t it.

Sometimes it’s hard to know when you’ve hit that note. If you did one more circle would it be better? If you have one last silly spook just before you untack does that cancel out the good note you hit just before you cooled down?

Oh dear…I wonder if I ever hit the right note?