And there she stood

Saw the human girl coming out towards the barn and then she stopped where she was. Me and my horse didn't know why she stopped. There were some birds of all different kinds flying from one group of trees to another all agitated like. She stopped and looked at those birds flying all crazy and then she just stood there looking at the ground. We would have gone to see what she was looking at but we were standing closer to the feed station than she was and well I'm sure you can figure out that we were not going to be walking away from it when we wanted her to come it.

And she just stood there.........Then she started talking to the ground. My horse and I looked at each other wondering if we should go investigate but we decided to just stand where we were like she was standing where she was. She stood there and talked to the ground for what seemed like a long time but probably wasn't then she came on out to my barn.

She said she was standing there waiting for a snake to pass. She said it was a skinny snake but it was maybe five feet long. She calls it different things. She says Rat Snake, Bull Snake, Big Black Snake to name just a few of the things she calls it. She isn't afraid of them. Says they are good snakes. Says they will not hurt you but if you are not paying attention and walking slowly you might run across one and hurt yourself. HA HA

Sometimes if the human man finds the snake first he will kill it and the human girl doesn't like for him to do that but she does like to play with it after he does that. She hangs it on the fence different ways for different reasons. One way that I remember is that she hangs it belly side up to bring on the rain. And she fiddles with the dead snake a lot because they stretch so she has to keep adjusting it so it doesn't hang on the ground. She told the human man she saw it and he told her 'Don't you be playing with it! I mean it. Do not play with the snake.' I know she wouldn't play with it while it was busy living but that human man just isn't so sure about that.

Those big black snakes eat mice so that's why the human girl likes to have them around. She tells a story about how one time she lost her wheel barrow for more than week because of one of them. She had taken her wheelbarrow to get me some hay and one of them stuck it's head out and looked at her. She took off running and forgot about the wheelbarrow. After she quit running and came to my pasture she opened the gate and told me I was on my own. Oh that was when I had my other horse, Mousey, yes I remember now. Anyway she forgot she got scared away from her wheelbarrow since she wasn't going to that area because she let us out so we could get our own hay and it was almost two weeks before she remember where that wheel barrow was. You should have seen her walking all over the place looking for it but not going down there in the lower pasture even one time. That was pretty funny.

Oh looky! There that human girl is now she is going to hang clothes out on the clothes line so I have to go stand by the fence. I like to do that because my dog who is a chocolate lab will bark bark bark bark bark which I think is real funny.