{"id":5819,"date":"2019-09-08T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2019-10-14T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T19:30:08","slug":"wretched-fantasy-team-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wretched-fantasy-team-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Wretched Fantasy Team Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was going to ride 30-40 miles yesterday to get points for the Fox Trot Urbane Fantasy Team competition.&nbsp; But that didn\u2019t work.&nbsp; My incentive to take her to my favorite riding park and ride alone, like I did in my 40\u2019s &#8230;failed. There is old person fear in me.&nbsp; Instead, I brought Fancy home yesterday and planned to ride her at home today. It rained overnight.&nbsp; Damn.  There is mud and slippery grass in pasture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve never rode Fancy alone outdoors except 30 feet between arenas as I\u2019m an arena person.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because of the wretched Fox Trotter Urbane competition, Fancy and I took our 2nd trail ride&#8230;alone, no arena.&nbsp; Who thinks up this Fantasy competition team stuff anyway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wretched Dish TV is on strike with the channel that carries the Chiefs.&nbsp; I let Terry use my phone to listen to the Chiefs game on radio.&nbsp; We have no real radio in our house.&nbsp; Sometimes technology is a bitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, I rode Fancy alone with no arena walls, without my phone!  Scream!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma, the German Shepard dog, took her first riding buddy test.&nbsp; She is a million dollar dog.&nbsp; She did not chase Fancy.&nbsp; She did not get close enough to bite her tail.&nbsp; She kept me within 50 to a 100 feet sight line.&nbsp; Emma leaped into the lake several times, but far enough away that the noise was slight.&nbsp; Fancy heard the splash, but didn\u2019t flinch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I rode Fancy on trails that I had mowed yesterday in our pasture jungle.&nbsp; There was no spooking.&nbsp; There might have been a slight attempt to canter back to the barn, just barely.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next I rode Fancy on the long gravel driveway dealing with muddy patches and puddles.&nbsp; Fancy is opposed to puddle water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I probably rode .4 miles, not 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had no phone to track the miles or call for help. &nbsp; Hell, I\u2019m at home, if something happens, surely I can crawl to the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flies attacked her face.&nbsp; I had taken off the fly mask. I am her wretched human being. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My glasses fogged over with the humidity. Oh how we suffered.&nbsp; I took off my glasses but then couldn\u2019t see the obstacles hidden in the jungle trails or the puddle\/mud spots.&nbsp; We\u2019ve had far too much rain this year. &nbsp;I feel like I\u2019m in a sweat bath with clothes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We traversed from pasture gate to property gate, weaving the road until she could go straight and not speed up into a fox trot.&nbsp; (Yes, I did let her fox trot.&nbsp; We fox trotted until she realized how nice a flat foot walk could be).&nbsp; Fancy is a \u201cGo\u201d horse. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancy would rather veer off into the grass, not touch her precious shod feet to the gravel. She is an arena horse, not a GRAVEL horse.&nbsp; Snort!&nbsp; (Or this might be a way to protest moving away from the barn.). See tracks in road as proof of ride.  Does that look like 40 miles to the far far away barn?  I need to earn a lot of points for The Dream Team!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CAA6F635-1BC3-4945-AF3F-B567C9A2860C-400x299.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5820\" data-link=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?attachment_id=5820\" class=\"wp-image-5820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CAA6F635-1BC3-4945-AF3F-B567C9A2860C-400x299.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CAA6F635-1BC3-4945-AF3F-B567C9A2860C-350x261.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/CAA6F635-1BC3-4945-AF3F-B567C9A2860C-768x574.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/434008F8-116D-4652-912A-CD23CECFEBF9-400x299.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5821\" data-link=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?attachment_id=5821\" class=\"wp-image-5821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/434008F8-116D-4652-912A-CD23CECFEBF9-400x299.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/434008F8-116D-4652-912A-CD23CECFEBF9-350x261.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/434008F8-116D-4652-912A-CD23CECFEBF9-768x574.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancy took me on a nice ride from property gate to pasture gate.&nbsp; This is the time to reward her.&nbsp; We side-passed over to my trailer fender.&nbsp; She stood still and I dismounted.&nbsp; I had looped the reins over the saddle horn.&nbsp; I decided to see if she would be my partner and stay at the trailer when my feet hit the ground.&nbsp; (Plus, I was going to take off the saddle there.) \u201cAre you kidding me\u201d, she snorted, and walked away.&nbsp; Then she had a fight with something crawling up her tender area in her rear female parts.&nbsp; She couldn\u2019t get her head back there because of the reins around the saddle horn.&nbsp; She would not come to me either.&nbsp; I did not own her rear end. I ended up having to walk to her head when she finally got it out of her rear underneath parts and get the reins.&nbsp; We managed to get the saddle off at the trailer with the help of grain on the fender for positive motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We walked over to the barn where the hated hose awaited.&nbsp; Fancy tried hard to get into the barn, even though I was standing in her way.&nbsp; She refused to back off me, even though I had the reins asking her to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She got her shower.&nbsp; She didn\u2019t invade the last 2\u201d of my personal body space.  I am lucky to be alive and not trampled. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fancy is a million dollar horse.&nbsp; She is perfect for me.  Thank you Fox Trot Fantasy Team Competition inventor.  Without you I might not ever have decided to win back my fun alone riding at home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started out the morning with an intelligent car that wouldn\u2019t start.&nbsp; Yes, the battery was down to nothing.&nbsp; How could an intelligent car let the battery run down?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to unhook the truck, put Terry\u2019s walker in it,&nbsp; get Terry into truck and then find a parking space suitable for a long bed dually and handicapped spouse.&nbsp; This was a mission for food!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With food in the belly at home, I managed to figure out how to open the truck hood.&nbsp; Next was my new million dollar battery cables.&nbsp; They have some kind of trick lock on the handles.&nbsp; Terry had to show me how that worked. The car started and died when I took off the cables.&nbsp; So I did it again and longer. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma and I drove the car up the road and back.&nbsp; Sadly that wasn\u2019t enough and the car refused to start again in the early evening when food was again the goal.&nbsp; We took the truck to eat and discovered a place that serves wine on Sunday.&nbsp; I knocked over my first glass of wine.&nbsp; The wine spilled on my phone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were about to close and not open till Wednesday. I got a larger helping of grilled chicken salad.&nbsp; Get on your knees&#8230;they had two pieces of pie left.&nbsp; We took home coconut cream and peanut butter pie&#8230;.free.&nbsp; I left a large tip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tomorrow, cables again and straight to store that sells and installs batteries.&nbsp; My car is four years old.&nbsp; Time for a new battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you enjoyed the highs and lows of my day&#8230;and my million dollar horse.\u00a0 She is perfect for me&#8230;.never ever will she be boring! \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/e\/B009H9RDGO\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-\/e\/B009H9RDGO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to ride 30-40 miles yesterday to get points for the Fox Trot Urbane Fantasy Team competition.&nbsp; But that didn\u2019t work.&nbsp; My incentive to take her to my favorite riding park and ride alone, like I did in my 40\u2019s &#8230;failed. There is old person fear in me.&nbsp; Instead, I brought Fancy home yesterday and planned to ride her at home today. It rained overnight.&nbsp; Damn. There is mud and slippery grass in pasture. I\u2019ve never rode Fancy alone outdoors except 30 feet between arenas as I\u2019m an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emma","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}