{"id":7399,"date":"2021-07-10T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=7399"},"modified":"2021-07-12T22:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T03:28:47","slug":"world-war-one-battle-lines-drawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/world-war-one-battle-lines-drawn\/","title":{"rendered":"World War One Battle Lines Drawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFeed Me! \u00a0This is the time of the day when you feed me. \u00a0No, I don\u2019t want the fly mask.\u201d Fancy left the stall. \u00a0Susan left the barn. \u00a0Fancy and Susan returned to the barn and the fly mask was installed. \u00a0\u201cI know you\u2019re going to feed me now.\u201d \u00a0Susan bent over to get the new fly leg protectors. \u00a0\u201cNo!\u201d \u00a0Fancy left. \u00a0Susan decided to fill a water bucket in Delta\u2019s stall. \u00a0Fancy returned and nibbled on the fly leg protector. \u00a0Susan went into Fancy\u2019s stall and shut Fancy\u2019s stall door. \u00a0The Shoo-Fly boots http:\/\/shooflyleggins.com\/<\/a>were installed. \u00a0Fancy and Delta are in day 2 of the Shoo Fly leggings. \u00a0They are weird but appear to work and Fancy doesn\u2019t nibble them off her feet.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in the upper 70\u2019, bit with 90% humidity. \u00a0Susan almost backed out of riding. \u00a0Emma, the German Shepherd, needed Susan to ride. \u00a0Emma needs outdoor activity. \u00a0(Maybe WWI is Emma\u2019s fault.) \u00a0Fancy was told that she was going to get brushed and fly sprayed. \u00a0“I hate being fly-sprayed. \u00a0Leave me alone with my pasture mates!”<\/p>\n

We walked to the trailer where the fly spray, brushes, saddle and saddle pad live. \u00a0Fancy was groomed and saddled. \u00a0We engaged in the mandatory run around to tighten the saddle. We didn’t take long. \u00a0Fancy got her bridle on, Susan mounted from the trailer fender and off we went. \u00a0There was bits of balking. \u00a0Susan used her secret backing weapon to get progress. \u00a0Fancy made it past the gate when forward movement and backwards movement stalled.<\/p>\n

Susan decided it was time to employ the secret weapon. \u00a0The weapon is “Fancy will wish Susan was riding.”<\/p>\n

As Susan gave the signature to return to the trailer, Fancy was snorting in glee. \u00a0“I won! \u00a0I won! \u00a0I’ll even give the loser a nice flat foot walk back to the trailer.”<\/p>\n

Susan took off the bridle and put on the halter. \u00a0WWI engagement started. \u00a0Fancy was asked to circle me on the 12′ rope as we walked towards the gate. \u00a0There are puddles to negotiate and that’s when the full battle engaged. \u00a0Horses can’t tell puddles are puddles. \u00a0Their eyesight suggests a puddle might be a deep very small lake.<\/p>\n

The temperature is mid 80\u2019s with some, but not killer humidity. \u00a0I won the WWI battle of puddles on my own driveway. We moved to the gravel road with many opportunities for Fancy to learn about water obstacles. \u00a0Did I mention it was hot? \u00a0Fancy and I expended a lot of effort. \u00a0Fancy ended up being will to stand in a water puddle and walk through puddles.
\nI petted and praised her with words coming from my sweat body. \u00a0It was similar to the feeling you get after you jump into a swimming pool.<\/p>\n

Fancy and I returned home. \u00a0I believe I won that skirmish.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFeed Me! \u00a0This is the time of the day when you feed me. \u00a0No, I don\u2019t want the fly mask.\u201d Fancy left the stall. \u00a0Susan left the barn. \u00a0Fancy and Susan returned to the barn and the fly mask was installed. \u00a0\u201cI know you\u2019re going to feed me now.\u201d \u00a0Susan bent over to get the new fly leg protectors. \u00a0\u201cNo!\u201d \u00a0Fancy left. \u00a0Susan decided to fill a water bucket in Delta\u2019s stall. \u00a0Fancy returned and nibbled on the fly leg protector. \u00a0Susan went into Fancy\u2019s stall and shut Fancy\u2019s stall…<\/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":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399","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=7399"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7428,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7399\/revisions\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}