I am Precious and my horse's name is Pretty Boy. Those are our barn names. That is what we get called on an everyday basis. I am a Paint horse and my paper name is Skippers Precious. My Pretty Boy is a Red Roan Appaloosa horse who's paper name is Trouper. Anywho........I tell the house mouse about our life and what happens out here on the farm and in my big red barn so she can tell you. Well now you know so on with the stories.................

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

I was grazing......

There I was a happy happy horse just walking around grazing on the beautiful tender young green grass when it started getting dark at the wrong time of the day or had I been asleep and dreaming about grazing? No it was getting darker but it wasn't because the sun was going down. And then the dark clouds spilled rain on me and my horse with hardly a warning drop falling first. We were over by the feed shed. There is a lean-to there at the end of it where the humans park the truck and the cool jeep. I do not know the reason why by one was parked where the other one usually is which made the other one parked where that one usually is and that meant there was only room for one of us to get under cover. My horse was closest so guess who that left standing out in the rain. Yes that is correct if you guessed it was me, Precious the beautiful Paint horse. I didn't mind just a whole lot at first because I like water even if it is falling on me instead of me standing in it playing. But this rain was getting thick. Does rain get thick? Yes it does. It got so thick I could hardly see my horse over there in the lean-to next to the jeep. The heavier that rain fell the more I backed up until I couldn't back up any more so there was nothing for me to do but hang my head and wait it out. See I couldn't back up anymore because I had backed all the way up into a clump of China Berry trees. Now those of you that don't know it China Berry trees are so thick with leaves that it is almost like standing under regular roof.....most of the time. This rain that was coming down even made it thru the China Berry tree leaves! I was very happy it didn't last very long and then I was over looking into my pond to see if it was deep enough to swim in yet. It wasn't but it was getting close to enough.

The house mouse told me that we got very lucky with that rain when I was telling my story about standing under the tree. House mouse told me that the rain clouds had zipped on past us and stopped over in Shreveport Louisiana where it stopped. They got more almost seven inches of rain in three hours over there. Boy howdy I think that much rain would make my pond deep enough for me to swim in for many days. I sure hope everyone over there in Shreveport Louisiana get dried out soon like I did.

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